I had a feeling once my arctic expedition was done that my fitness journey would take a hit – hence my goal to keep going. I haven’t posted an update for March and April and I am nit even sure it makes sense. But in order to get myself motivated again and on the right track I will go back two month and put my exercises on paper. I need to see for myself how far I have fallen off the wagon. And then I need to figure out how to continues. I am a goals person and if I have none there is nothing that keeps me showing up.
Exercise in March
Sunday, March 1st
9 min – Core Strength Mat Pilates – was ok but my arm still can’t support my weight in planks
35 min – Yin Yoga & Affirmations for Health – did this before. still like it
March 2nd – March 5th
Rest Days
Friday, March 6th
18 Min – walk through snowy Kiruna, more leisurely than exercising but with a backpack
Saturday, March 7th
14min – Yoga at the hotel
2 x 15 min cross country skiing for equipment test
Sunday March 8th – Arctic Expedition
38 min – uphill cross country skiing with pulka (1.64km)
40 min – uphill walking with pulka (1.48km)
106 min – uphill walking with pulka (3.17km)
Monday, March 9th – Arctic Expedition
35 min – uphill walking (1.57km)
197 min – cross country skiing with pulka (5.64km)
Tuesday, March 10th – Arctic Expedition
26 min – cross country skiing getting firewood in deep snow
44 min – cross country skiing getting firewood in deep snow
24 min – cross country skiing getting firewood in deep snow
Wednesday, March 11th – Arctic Expedition
210 min – cross country skiing with pulka (9km)
Thursday, March 12th – Arctic Expedition
322 min – cross country skiing partly downhill (10km)
Friday, March 13th – Arctic Expedition
102 min – cross country skiing (5km)
15 min – cross country skiing
March 14th – March 16th
Rest Days
Tuesday, March 17th
80 min – Yin Yoga for Flexibility, Self-Care & Deep Relaxation – felt really good, heart rate went down.
Wednesday, March 18th
6 min – Abs to the Beat – so hard, heavy legs, did only half of it
15 min – Yoga – whatever felt good
March 19th – March 28th
Rest Days
Sunday, March 29th
10 min/2.2km – biking to church
12min/2.2km – biking from church
Monday, March 30th
5 min – dancing against fatigue
20 min – Sleep Meditation (Apple Fitness)
Tuesday, March 31st
11 min – Core for beginners (Apple Fitness)– easier than thought
20 min – Yoga (Apple Fitness)– some poses were not possible due to my shoulder pain
A few other Stats for March
- doing yoga a total of 213 minutes averaging to 36 minutes per session
- walking over 10.000 steps/day on 7 days, total of 192km and an average of 8.720 daily steps (124.6% of goal). This includes the steps during skiing I think,
- closing my apple rings seven times.
- riding my bike a total of 4.8 km.
- tracked 16.5 hours of skiing with 33.64km but my battery gave out a few times. It must have been around 50 km total in the week we were out in the wild.
- a total of 17 rest days.
Exercise in April
Wednesday, April 1st
12 min/2.46km – biking to lunch
35min/5.63km – biking back home and running errands
14min/1.83km – biking to the farmers market
9 min/1.76km – biking back from farmers market
Thursday, April 2nd
14 min – walking in my neighborhood → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Friday, April 3rd
10 min/2km – biking to church
24 min – walking → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
64min/11.38km – biking through the woods
10 min – meditation with JoAnna (Apple Fitness)
Saturday, April 4th
61 min – walking with the husband along the river → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
17 min – Yin Yoga for Sleep
Sunday, April 5th
13 min/2.26km – biking to church
21min/3.14km – biking home from church
12 min – waling the neighborhood → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Monday, April 6th
11min – upper strength for golf players (Apple Fitness)
11min – pilates for beginners (Apple Fitness)
Tuesday, April 7th
11min – upper body strength for golf players (Apple Fitness)
12 min – lower body strength for golf players (Apple Fitness)
11 min – Yoga Slow Flow with Jonelle (Apple Fitness)
9min/2.2km – bring to church
9 min/2km – biking home from church
Wednesday, April 8th
18 min – Yoga for migraines
22 min – walking the neighborhood with the husband → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Thursday, April 9th
16 min – walking the neighborhood with the husband → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Friday, April 10th
30 min – lunchtime walk
Saturday, April 11th
98 min – golf class
57 min – golf practicing on our own
11 min – stretching for golf players (Apple Fitness)
11 min – Yoga – whatever felt good
Sunday, April 12th
13 min – walking on the golf course to the practice area
166 min – golf class
94 min – golf practicing on our own
28 min – Yoga – whatever felt good
Monday, April 13th
83 min – golf practicing on our own
Tuesday, April 14th
2x 5km – biking to church council meeting
18 min – Yin Yoga Stretches
10 min – Sleep Meditation with Jessica (Apple Fitness)
Wednesday, April 15th
12 min – core strength for golf players (Apple Fitness)
11 min – Yoga with Molly (Apple Fitness)
2×1.2 km – walking to the grocery store → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Thursday, April 16th
16 min – neighborhood walk → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Friday, April 17th
Rest Day
Saturday, April 18th
4 hours – golf class
Sunday, April 19th
3 hours – golf class and practice round as examen
90 min – golfing on our own (4 holes)
Monday, April 20th
2×1.2 km – walking to the grocery store → Cool Bloggers Walking Club
Tuesday, April 21st
2 hours/7.5km – walking with my husband after the news of his mothers passing
Wednesday, April 22nd
10 min – Meditation for Resilience (Apple Fitness)
April 23rd-April 27th
Rest Days
Tuesday, April 28th
34min/1044m – swimming
Wednesday, April 29th
32min/1062m – swimming
Thursday, April 30th
Rest Day/Travel Day
A few other Stats or April
- doing yoga a total of 147 minutes averaging to 16 minutes a day.
- walking over 10.000 steps/day on 6 days, total of 146.4km and an average of 6.853 daily steps (97.9% of goal). This was okayish I guess.
- doing strength training 3 times averaging 12 min each.
- closing my apple rings three times.
- riding my bike a total of 39.71km. Spring is here.
- golfing for a total of 740 minutes. Probably a bit more as I didn’t track completely.
- swimming twice for 34 minutes each.
- a total of 7 rest days.
Observations I made
- I missed swimming. It’s really relaxing and at the same time a good work out. I am happy my new watch can track that exercise.
- I am trying out Apple Fitness. So far I am not too convinced. The filtering of the exercises is not great. They start with 10 min exercises and if I want longer ones it takes a lot of scrolling. Also they are sorted by trainer and not by target (like in yoga, morning, yin, energetic etc.) This bothers me. But it’s a free trial. And the golf one was a good series.
- I miss my yoga classes with Kassandra though. The silent cue ones. And the Yin ones. I want to get back to that.
- I needed a bit of a break in March. In April I was thrown off because of so much work and life.
- I want to include more exercise but I am currently struggling with my work load and have a high need for sleep so exercise is not my priority at the moment. Not sure how to integrate again.
- I need a goal to work towards. I am no good with trying to put exercise into my day if I have no longterm excitement like the arctic or a game or something to work towards. I am not a runner so marathon and such won’t motivate me. I need ideas.
Wirsing it down this detailed showed me that contrary to my feeling I didn’t fall of exercise in April as much as I thought. There weren’t so many rest days. That is good. I just feel like I did the bare minimum. It was rather easy exercising. So I need to get into more strength and start pushing myself again.
How is your training going? Any milestones you want to share? What are you struggling with? What is your current fitness goal? What drives you to show up? Do you allow yourself rest days?
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My goal is 5 days of weights a week, 20 or 30 minutes. 7 days of yoga, 20 or 30 minutes. 7 days of walking, 45 – 60 minutes. I have done really well for a long time, and now in the last few weeks…not so much. I’ve been waking up sore in the middle of the night and wondering if it’s due to the weights. SIGH. I need to get back to all of it, though.
I haven’t been swimming in ages, mostly because of vanity and being in public in my swim suit, which is dumb. We have a pool in our condo complex, I could just swim. Maybe I need to figure this out.
Thanks for the motivation. Sometimes hearing (reading) someone else talk things out moves my mind in the same way.
I know what you mean. Reading other people’s journeys, success and struggles can also motivate me. When I read what you do daily I am amazed. It’s so much and I wish I’d be able to include half of it.
I plan on going swimming tomorrow and test the indoor pool that closest to my place. It happens to be on the way to a meeting I have. Small steps to get back.
Well, you’ve proved to yourself that you can do it, I guess you do need a new goal. You still stayed quite active in April so that is good. I think I remember you did some of your training with a friend maybe you could make hiking with them a semi-regular part of your life?
I have just had COVID, but am back to running. I have decided to work with a running coach for the marathon so he has scheduled 3 short runs for this week plus 2 strength sessions to get back to running gradually. I always have one day a week rest (I still walk places but no strength or running training)
Oh no for the Covid stuff. I be that threw you off a bit. Yeahhh for the coach. I bet it’s a whole other level of preparation.
I do need a new goal. Not sure which one. I hate running but I am pondering the idea to sign up for a 10 km run. But that would be next May…
I’d love more hikes with my friend. She has a very busy life and she is rarely available and has a new boyfriend do I need to reach out and see what’s possible.
I’d like to get back to 2 strength sessions a week. And I might sign up for Zumba again since that did help with cardio.
I’ll also want to focus more on golf this summer but it’s a whole different set of muscles. We’ll see. Maybe I find some time next weekend to ponder new goals.
I like your stats of time per day. I think that’s better than how I do it because I basically don’t “get credit” for workouts shorter than 30 minutes and the little bits add up over time, you know? Hm. The goal is 150 minutes of elevated heartrate a week, but that can be done in short increments. This is something I’m going to think on!
What counts as elevated heartrate for you?
I think need to have something like that too.
Oh sometimes o only get 10 minutes. It would be discouraging if I don’t add those in.
It sounds to me like you’re doing great! My main goal for exercise is to keep my blood sugar within the acceptable range, and I’m doing that quite well. It’s a balancing act because if I exercise too intensely, it actually raises my blood sugar. I ride my Peloton bike, walk outdoors, do strength exercises with body weight only (no added weights), yoga, and meditation.
I hope you find something fun to work towards. The Arctic expedition was such a great goal.
Wow that is a lot. How interesting that blood sugar rises with lots of exercise.
I do need a new goal.
I can’t comment on your Virtual Coffee Date for some reason. There is no option showing (that I can find). Another blogger suddenly seems to have to turn on comments for every post, not sure if that is happening to you.
I’m so sorry about your MIL, that’s so shocking and difficult. I’m glad there were some silver linings in there, getting to see friends and so on.
Oh, the heartbreak for your friends with their child in the accident! How to support them…you said one of their children, so anything you can do to support the other child…are they in school? Can you pick up or drop off? Can you bring them a meal or two? Or arrange for something to be dropped off? Clean something for them? These are the things that feel overwhelming I think, and might be helpful.
If I were you with the computer, I would use the new one for your work, get the old one fixed, and then once it’s working, see if you can wipe the old one and return it for a full refund. It might not work, but it’s worth a try.
I hope things calm down and improve for your husband’s company. I wonder if your sleep is just due to stress, and needing more rest. I hope that’s not it, I hope it is a change somehow and you will be able to keep sleeping better.
You’ve been active! Maybe not as active as before your trip but you’re still showing up for yourself. And any movement (that you enjoy) is better than none… and fitting in 10-minute classes here and there (or multiple times a day) can sometimes be better than planning for one big workout session in the morning (or evening). I guess that’s something i am trying to embrace myself right now ;)
I guess. I just feel like those 10 minutes are not worth much which is stupid because I made an effort or simply don’t have more time.
Maybe I just needed the break after the arctic. I have high hopes for June.