Topic: exercise

Well, I'm afraid I continued my backward slide last week, painful as that is to admit. I got busy preparing for a trip out of town and just didn't have time or inclination to eat properly. No exercise to speak of either, other than a little yard work. I'd meant to post that I was busy, but was so busy I never got to do it. No logging, no real weighing and that's always a bad sign. When I don't...

The 'Where's Home?' writing contest/exercise has been so much fun. I've gotten entries from people all over the continent--and one from across the waters. Some have been pithy, some complex. Some have illustrations or photos and many didn't and our imaginations...(read more)...

I spent the first three days this week effectively motionless, moving only my fingers, while staring into a computer screen. On the evening of the third day I felt I had bones of kindling and muscles of jello. I ached all over. To recouperate, for the the remainder of the week I: * Carried 15 lbs of dirty laundry downstairs * Folded and sorted the clean laundry, carrying it upstairs in three...

How much things can change in a week! Last week I had thought I'd be able to write pretty authoritatively on the topic of exercise and physical energy, embarking on my Hood to Coast adventure with high hopes and fresh legs. Well, as you know I was relieved of my running duties, which was a...

Last week after I wrote what I did - my son suggested that maybe it was a need for a different assortment of exercises. I went "duh!" of course....bodies, mine, adapt to doing the same exercise on a regular basis...and I was doing the cycling twice a week for more than two years....and even tho the instructor varies the workout each class, I think I was having sameness burnout....but maybe...