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Made time to work out
Jun. 17th, 2022 04:37 am... and I feel much better as a result.
When we went to bed last night I was feeling rather stressed looking at the calendar and everything coming up and wondering how I was going to find the time needed to prep for each fun thing on the list, in addition to accomplishing work and basic life and home maintenance chores. I was also feeling the changes that start to creep in to one's body when one hasn't made time for anything resembling a workout recently.
The intrest in training has been there, I have just had lots of very full on days in a row, and I am just not getting to it.
Therefore, when I woke today at 03:30 I decided it was time to move, and, unlike some way early mornings when I think that, I actually did.
The DownDog yoga app I am so fond of recently added a Beta test version of a "Strength Flow" routine, wherein one does a bit of yoga, then it gives a bit of strength training exercises from their HIT (high intensity training)app, then goes back to yoga. I had tried this a week or so back, with just a 20 minute session (which came with one 4-minute HIT section in the middle). This morning I did a 45 minute session, and loved it. The yoga bit was a great mix of stretching and strenght poses, and the two 4-minute HIT sections where enough to make me break a sweat, but were still doable (though I did one set of pushups from my knees).
Now I am ready to go back to bed for an hour or so and then face my day. But unlike last night, I am looking forward to the day and optamistic that it will go well and I will be ready to head north for Spelmansstämman this evening.
When we went to bed last night I was feeling rather stressed looking at the calendar and everything coming up and wondering how I was going to find the time needed to prep for each fun thing on the list, in addition to accomplishing work and basic life and home maintenance chores. I was also feeling the changes that start to creep in to one's body when one hasn't made time for anything resembling a workout recently.
The intrest in training has been there, I have just had lots of very full on days in a row, and I am just not getting to it.
Therefore, when I woke today at 03:30 I decided it was time to move, and, unlike some way early mornings when I think that, I actually did.
The DownDog yoga app I am so fond of recently added a Beta test version of a "Strength Flow" routine, wherein one does a bit of yoga, then it gives a bit of strength training exercises from their HIT (high intensity training)app, then goes back to yoga. I had tried this a week or so back, with just a 20 minute session (which came with one 4-minute HIT section in the middle). This morning I did a 45 minute session, and loved it. The yoga bit was a great mix of stretching and strenght poses, and the two 4-minute HIT sections where enough to make me break a sweat, but were still doable (though I did one set of pushups from my knees).
Now I am ready to go back to bed for an hour or so and then face my day. But unlike last night, I am looking forward to the day and optamistic that it will go well and I will be ready to head north for Spelmansstämman this evening.