Going to write something positive, because I’m ill as a hornet dealing with Best Buy/Asus (they sold us a defective computer that broke after two weeks and best buy shipped it to their geek quad center and “ran tests and found nothing wrong.” Now I have to go pick it up (50 miles each way) and then pay for shipping to go to Asus. If they deem it OK, I’m outta luck for a $1000 computer. In order for it to work, you have to do a hard reboot with it plugged into the wall. Then it works for 1-2 days. and repeat… That it NOT ok!)
But the good stuff… My legs just have been feeling more and more beat up, so this week I’ve gone to the gym and rode the bike. I was surprised that I have been so strong on it! I haven’t ridden it regularly in a long time. My legs are feeling a lot better now. I plan to run on Saturday and then we go out of town for 3 days - so 3 more off days. Hopefully, I’ll feel less like an 80 year old lady.
I also got to start playing with my handstands again. I can’t do that in my shed, as I have no good walls. Instead, in the shed I’ve been working on the other part of my dream goal flow sequence. Daily, I’ve been holding crow for 60 sec. but then I would go from crow to tripod headstand (without thunking my head), and then transition into bounded headstand, and then push up into forearm stand. until today, the trickiest part has been going to bounded headstand, my arms get tangled in my hair and I can’t push up. I should probably try a bun. But today, I actually crashed out flopping over in the transition. Oops. But I digress. My handstands were weaker on Monday-Tuesday, but yesterday and today they felt better. and I was able to go from Handstand to crow - with one foot dragging along the wall. So yay for mini progress!
Oh I also still go home and then do some lifting, but I’ve taken a break from the program and have been just doing standard dumbbell liftings, pull-ups, and push-ups.
I don’t know what a holding crow or bounded headstand, but I am impressed anyway. Good job!
Today marks two years that I’ve been doing online workouts with my trainer through the 24hour fitness app. We are doing a special workout today! I can’t believe we’ve been under this Covid cloud so long. Moving workouts to my home has been great for me. Not sure I’ll ever go back to the gym on a regular basis, though I do miss the camaraderie of my workout buddies.
By far the hardest part is the handstand to crow. I’ve been working on control. It’d help if I had any hip flexor flexibility and could balance with the legs separated. The rest of it I can do as long as my hair doesn’t get in the way.
Thanks for sharing, ClassicMom98! That’s inspiring me to get back into yoga. Now that I’ve finished a big project, really want to hit the gym/weights, run, and yoga again! I love crow position - such a nice combo of balance/strength.
Ran 3 miles last weekend (at a quick pace with my young neighbor!) and it was completely exhausting - a full day to recover. But that’s the good thing about running - it pushes you! Just don’t get that same effect from the same distance walking.
Talking about yoga, yesterday I played pickle ball for an hour and surprisingly my backhand strokes are getting much better, more reliable returns, maybe it’s the frog pose I’ve been practicing every night, it helps with my shoulders.
Ah, pickle ball… that’s on my list for New Thing to try. (I did paddle board last month in Hawaii, and I may have missed the boat to try snow shoes this year).
Love the idea of trying more with yoga. It was hard when I did an occasional lunch time class at work, but perhaps now that Covid is less risky I should seek out a class. Hmmm… after gardening season. It’s been great having opportunities to get outside again!
@Colorado_mom - our paddle boards are back in our garage after being with D1 and her bf at their place by the bay for 2.5 years. They used to live across the street from Mission Bay here in San Diego and we could carry the paddle boards from their house to the bay when we wanted to use them. D1 and her bf have now moved inland to a bigger place so we took the paddle boards back home which means we have to put them in H’s truck when we want to use them.
H and I are looking for a beginning pickle ball class to try this spring. The great thing about WFH is that we can take a lunch break whenever we like and can go do a class in the middle of the work day.
I gave all of my yoga tapes away. I just follow some Instagram accounts and just do them at home, mostly at night for about 15 minutes. That’s all I’m committed to do regularly.
Before the pandemic, I did all sort of classes, I did belly dancing classes and also badminton for the same time at the local community college. But now they stop me, they don’t let me take the same classes again, even though I purposely failed the class every time.
I can’t say that this makes a lot of sense. You exercise for health but your on purpose “fail” so you can retake classes? Are there other options for playing badminton and such besides the community college - where people who are trying to earn a degree need classes to sign up for?
Of course I exercise for health and that’s my main reason for exercising, but the belly dancing class requires a performance at the end of the class to get credit and I never showed up, but after failing 3 times they don’t let me take it anyway. For badminton, I didn’t fail, I took P/NP, but after 3 classes, they also lock me out of registering.
No badminton locally, huge list to sign up.
Today, I performed two CF “quarterfinal” workouts, which were released on Thursday. The first one was to achieve a 1-rep max in 3 lifts, clean, bench press and OH squat, one bar, one rack, with a 30-minute time cap.
Amazingly, I tied my clean PR and got PR’s on both the bench press and squat. I did this workout with another gym member, who’s 31-years old, better skiled than I, one weight class up (heavier). While he beat me in total lbs, it wasn’t by that big of a margin.
The 2nd workout consisted of pullups, GHD situps, and pistol squats (one-legged squats) with a time cap of 15 minutes. I finished the workout in about 13 1/2 minutes. All in all, a good day at the gym. After this week, my shoulders are fried and will likely only run tomorrow.
On Thursday the weather was nice, so I ran my usual 5k (3.1 miles) at the lake trail plus another 2.5k. Today weather was even nicer, and I had a lot of free time. After my usual 5k I ran another 5k. This time my extra running was another lap around the 3.5 mile lake. That means I got a bit of extra walking too.
Beautiful weekend here in San Diego. Did a 6 mile walk to Gliderport Saturday and a 6 mile walk to La Jolla Shores and along the beach when the tide was out on Sunday.
This morning would have been a grand time to run, in the 50s/60s. But… the mountains were calling us, so we drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park. Our hike was very short, but for the first time we walked on the packed snow/ice on Bear Lake. (Being retired has its perks - easier Park parking on weekdays.) We had a great lunch in Estes Park. It felt nice to be back inside a restaurant, even though we did enjoy the Covid years of picnics and outdoor dining.
I decided to do a 5:30pm run, even though it was 75 degrees (which I usually avoid). The cloud cover and breeze made it bearable. Who else is enjoying the longer daylight?
Me. I can run after work without rushing around to get changed with my eye on the clock (a few weeks ago my kid and I would have to dash in and be back out the door in order to not be running in the dark, which isn’t safe to do here). I used to be a before-work runner but since Covid I haven’t been feeling the 5 AM wake-ups!
One of our friends is an early bird, so he really preferred the morning light. So there may be some morning runners/walkers who do not share my giddiness over the evening light.