I used to work out every morning. Short workouts, 10-15 minutes, but something. And then I fell out of the habit and would instead spend half an hour staring blankly at my computer ( Read more... )

It was a really pleasant long weekend. I didn't do any cooking, but I did start and complete a sewing project and it came out very nicely. You can see it in The Wrathskellar next month.
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new_man and I joined a gym. At his urging, not mine. Now I have to buy sneakers! I haven't had a pair in years. I'm not going to give up my beloved Pure Barre, but I ( Read more... )

Sour cherry season is over. I still have several pounds of cherries in the fridge to process, but there are no more to pick. Yesterday the birds decided that this was Descend on the Cherries Day. The tree is basically stripped bare and all the fallen cherries that plagued the front walk are just pits ( Read more... )

I've hooped every morning for at least 15 minutes since Dec 1 and done at least 6 chin ups since the 8th. This might actually become a habit.
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I'm now convinced that the bloody Albert incident was the result of a mouse murder. Last night, while I was standing at the stove, something small skittered across the kitchen and ran under the ( Read more... )

Did split-prep again this morning and added in the backbend-prep stretches too. They're only 5-ish minutes and my shoulders can use all the help they can get.

I'm confident I'll do my stretches tomorrow. It's Monday that will be the test.

I am not the most flexible person in the world. (Let's leave aside the metaphorical implications of that statement.) When I was a teenager I used to be able to sit lotus position, wrap my arms behind my back and grab my feet, but that was a personal best ( Read more... )

16 chin-ups this morning.

Else journal there was a discussion of pull ups. Now, I do chin ups (the difference is the handgrip) and on a good day I have done 15. The Marine Corps fitness goal is 20, either grip, and I'm almost there. However, female marines are tested on a flexed arm hang, so on a whim, I decided to see how I'd do. 30 seconds on the first try. The goal is 70 ( Read more... )

On day 5 of my 28-day workout challenge. So far so good. The new workouts are a refreshing change. I've been managing to get my cardio requirements in too. (I'm *still* sore from Lakshmi's kalari workshop on Monday.) It helps that you can break them into 10 minute increments instead of doing 30 at a time. And Lakshmi helpfully ran an extra long ( Read more... )

To shake up my usual workouts, I signed up for a 28 day fitness challenge. Every day there's a fitness video and you're supposed to do 30 minutes of cardio -- whatever you like. The cardio is going to be my stumbling block. I just know it.

Yesterday lakshmi_amman ran a kalari practice session -- that's the Indian martial art she does -- and I attended. It ( Read more... )