Exercise...well, moving and dancing
Damn, half a cup of coffee and I still can't spell dancing without backing up. Sheesh.
For the last year I've been doing a set of dances of the ballroom variety set up to get one moving. It's called LaBlast, it's been designed by Louise Van Amstel (if you watch DWTS in the past, that's him, the short Dutch blonde who made a woman out of Kelly Osborne). I love it! Even with the osteo in my lower back and my knee, nothing in the routines puts a lot of twisting stress on either part. Well, not the first two dvd's. #3? Oh yeah. Samba. LOTS of bouncing which my knee doesn't like right now. So I backed down to #1 for the summer, and added a 30-day plank challenge to the routine.
I'm gonna die. Or get a whole lot stronger. I don't which yet. I CAN hold the plank for 30 seconds, but it HURTS. So I'll do day #1 till Monday, then see what happens. I never, ever, had anything like core strength in my entire life, so this should prove to be rather interesting.
On the good side, my larger garb was handed off to another who can fit it. Still need to make her some decent winter garb. Need my good sewing machine. That will come here as soon as we settle on a place in the bedroom to put it. Thank gods it doesn't need electricity.
Diet is working, and just sticking to that is helping lose the pounds (even with a few days of falling off the diet).
Gonna finish the coffee, then off for a 3 mile walk. No mountains like a friend of mine has, but I do have a few "molehills". *grin*
For the last year I've been doing a set of dances of the ballroom variety set up to get one moving. It's called LaBlast, it's been designed by Louise Van Amstel (if you watch DWTS in the past, that's him, the short Dutch blonde who made a woman out of Kelly Osborne). I love it! Even with the osteo in my lower back and my knee, nothing in the routines puts a lot of twisting stress on either part. Well, not the first two dvd's. #3? Oh yeah. Samba. LOTS of bouncing which my knee doesn't like right now. So I backed down to #1 for the summer, and added a 30-day plank challenge to the routine.
I'm gonna die. Or get a whole lot stronger. I don't which yet. I CAN hold the plank for 30 seconds, but it HURTS. So I'll do day #1 till Monday, then see what happens. I never, ever, had anything like core strength in my entire life, so this should prove to be rather interesting.
On the good side, my larger garb was handed off to another who can fit it. Still need to make her some decent winter garb. Need my good sewing machine. That will come here as soon as we settle on a place in the bedroom to put it. Thank gods it doesn't need electricity.
Diet is working, and just sticking to that is helping lose the pounds (even with a few days of falling off the diet).
Gonna finish the coffee, then off for a 3 mile walk. No mountains like a friend of mine has, but I do have a few "molehills". *grin*