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Regular moderate exercise log

Goonergal said:
@Emma_369 you’re inspiring me to get swimming again. Started up in the summer - prompted by @DJC3 - and remembered how much I love it. Hasn’t seemed so appealing in the cold, but really should get back to it. Important to be doing exercise you enjoy - only chance of sustaining it long-term..
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I’ve always loved swimming but hate the faff of getting dried and changed afterwards - which is ridiculous I know so focusing on the bit I like and not letting the constant washing of towels annoy me :D
 
Emma_369 said:
I’ve always loved swimming but hate the faff of getting dried and changed afterwards - which is ridiculous I know so focusing on the bit I like and not letting the constant washing of towels annoy me :D
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Me too! In the summer it was great. Pool 5 mins walk away. Shorts + tee over cossie, flip flops. Clothes back over wet cossie and a nice cooling walk home. Bundling up to get there doesn’t have the same appeal.
 
10k steps today majority on dog walk - Nordic walking - which fitbit split into walking and eliptical. Gently does it but I need to test the back a little. Aim to have an exercise bike session tomorrow, swimming lesson Tuesday and little weights session Wednesday. In between need to man handle 3 x 20kg chicken needs - feed and bedding. I have arranged a phone consultation with physio for Feb 8th so need to know if latest problem has changed things as I could easily do those before lat muscle problem.
 
11k steps today, most with a dog my daughter looks after sometimes (via an app called Borrow my Dog- great idea)
15 mins weights.

@ianpspurs careful with those heavy chicken bags. Have you a sack barrow? Glad you’re starting to see some improvement in your pain.
 
DJC3 said:
11k steps today, most with a dog my daughter looks after sometimes (via an app called Borrow my Dog- great idea)
15 mins weights.

@ianpspurs careful with those heavy chicken bags. Have you a sack barrow? Glad you’re starting to see some improvement in your pain.
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Yes, I have sack barrows and wheelbarrows but thanks for the concern. The point is that AFAIC all of that is normal life for my kinda people at least well into your 80s. When medics or whoever talk about day to day tasks I think we just don't understand each other, In their 70s and 80s my father and grandfather were climbing ladders and hand sawing fruit trees . Both were well able to tote 20kgs. That is how I understand normal ageing to be .
 
ianpspurs said:
Yes, I have sack barrows and wheelbarrows but thanks for the concern. The point is that AFAIC all of that is normal life for my kinda people at least well into your 80s. When medics or whoever talk about day to day tasks I think we just don't understand each other, In their 70s and 80s my father and grandfather were climbing ladders and hand sawing fruit trees . Both were well able to tote 20kgs. That is how I understand normal ageing to be .
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I can well understand your frustration, it might not be normal for you though, take care.
 
DJC3 said:
I can well understand your frustration, it might not be normal for you though, take care.
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I will take care but those are jobs I need to do and really enjoy doing. Exercise for me needs to incorporate tasks such as those, wood stacking and splitting and general "yard tasks" Walking is no pleasure for me and a constant reminder that something is wrong - quite humiliating in a way.
 
ianpspurs said:
I will take care but those are jobs I need to do and really enjoy doing. Exercise for me needs to incorporate tasks such as those, wood stacking and splitting and general "yard tasks" Walking is no pleasure for me and a constant reminder that something is wrong - quite humiliating in a way.
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You’ll get back to it, you are a very determined chap.
 
Cold, windy and wet here too, @DJC3 . Walking football this morning and another 11.4k steps . Toyed with a long walk as sun was briefly out after footie, but glad I didn’t set off as it didn’t last long.
 
It's light enough in the evenings once again on the two days I get out of work earlier to do my favourite 5 miles walk home which was great on Friday. I'd been missing that kind of mental decompress after the week's work - really needed it this week as well, so good to get that routine going again.

I did a good 10 miles walk yesterday, and then an additional two miles in pouring rain due to lack of buses going more than 2/3rds of the way home (took almost as long to get home as it did to get to the point I decided I'd get the bus home, what with One Thing and Another... you'd never believe I live in the 2nd largest city in England, and there are supposed to be buses every 10 minutes at that time of day. More buses along the first couple of miles as well, because two routes cover that bit. I waited for ages to see if a bus was going all the way.)

Done very little today as it was cold and windy and since there's less of me than in pre-diabetes days, I'm more prone to being blown about by the wind than I used to be!! Less ballast... Hoovering will just have to do for the postprandial exercise for today.
 
Great pace and distance Emma, I can't say that swimming is one of my favourite things but I signed up to this challenge to make me do more of it - and hopefully improve my form.

Still doing at least one training session a day at the moment, nothing particularly noteworthy. So glad I overcame my self consciousness about exercising with others though, working in classes or groups is so much more enjoyable for me!
 
paulmh said:
Great pace and distance Emma, I can't say that swimming is one of my favourite things but I signed up to this challenge to make me do more of it - and hopefully improve my form.
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Yes I saw the challenge as a good motivator to keep me going. I’m hoping that the next three weeks or so of practice before it officially starts will see me recover a little better between swims - last week I swam every other day to some degree and by Friday I really did have to push through to get the lengths done so giving up on my at home workouts as trying to do those too I think is going to leave me struggling too much and don’t want to fall short for the challenge :)
 
Hi all. 20.4k steps today of which 15.8k were aerobic. Largely due to two brisk 40 minute walks to and from physio appointment.
 
Well tonight’s swim was a little traumatic - ended up going half way through a ‘women’s only’ session to find a packed pool of very very leisurely talkative swimmers - I of course applaud anybody who gets off the sofa to do any form of exercise - I’ve spent years doing none! But when I was in the zone, having to keep swimming across and forwards to dodge everyone drove me a little crazy - moral of this story - don’t go swimming before 9pm!
But, eventually my 66 lengths (just over a mile, arguably more with the zigzagging) in a drawn out 52 minutes. Here’s hoping Wednesday night is quieter!
 
Emma_369 said:
when I was in the zone, having to keep swimming across and forwards to dodge everyone drove me a little crazy - moral of this story - don’t go swimming before 9pm!
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Drives me nuts too. We have 2 pools at my leisure centre and some of those in the slow lane (I’m not fast enough for anything other than the slow lane) in the exercise pool really should be in the leisure pool.
 
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