The month of June is almost over and I have not yet shared my fitness journey of May with you. You may not even be interested but in order to keep myself accountable I need to get this published. Skip if you are bored. Comment to motivate me.
I decided that I will no longer list the walking to grocery store, bus stops (I rarely did that) or biking when it is part of getting from A-B. I will add biking when it is intentionally my exercise for the day but that will mean more than 3km or so. I feel this way I will not cheat myself out of real exercising.
Friday, May 1st
travel day with 21,884 steps
Saturday, May 2nd – May 4th
Rest Days
Tuesday, May 5th
22 min/1.88km – walking home from church (conscious decision I could have gotten a ride)
Wednesday, May 6th
No Exercise
Thursday, May 7th
30 min/2km – walk in the woods for mental health
May 8th – May 9th
No Exercise
Tuesday, May 12th
14 min/4.11km – biking
60 min/1.475 meters – swimming
4.5km – biking
Sunday, May 17th
10 min – breathing meditation – 85 bpm was hard to relaxe
Monday, May 18th
10 min – sleep meditation – 75 bpm
Tuesday, May 19th – Travel Day
5 min – Sound Meditation – 73 bpm
10 min – Sleep Mediation – 66 bpm – fell asleep while at it
Wednesday, May 20th
10 min – Sleep Mediation – 65 bpm – hoped to fall back to sleep, no such luck
Thursday, May 21st
rode my back and had a lunchtime walk but not counting it as exercise
Friday, May 22nd
21 min – Pilates for beginners – not as bad as anticipated
10 min – Yoga
5 min – Breathing Meditation – 76 bpm
5 min – Lunchtime Sound Meditation – 64 bpm, much needed
Saturday, May 23rd
Rest Day
Sunday, May 24th
43min – Deep Stretch Yin Yoga for Flexability – felt restless at times, a bit stiff
Monday, May 25th
10 min – Pilates
10 min – Yoga
10 min – Kindness Meditation – 75 bpm
Tuesday, May 26th
20 min – walking pace 11’42”
Wednesday, May 27th
Rest Day
Thursday, May 28th
11 min – Yoga for beginners
10 min – Sound Meditation – 63 bpm
May 29-30th
Rest Days
Sunday, May 31st
31 min – Slow Flow – much needed
Observations I made
- I struggle to get back to exercising.
- I am not entirely convinced by Apple Fitness yet. The Yoga sessions are not what I look for.
- I start to appreciate meditations – specially the sound meditations. For that I enjoy Apple Fitness.
- My cardio fitness is rapidly declining. It’s worth than two years ago. How?
A few other Stats
- doing yoga five times, total of 107 minutes averaging to 21 minutes.
- walking over 10.000 steps/day on 5 days, total of 129.9km and an average of 5,764 daily steps (82.3% of goal) and the lowest monthly average this year. This was another bad month. Sigh.
- no strengths training.
- closing my apple rings five times.
- riding my bike a total of 13.7 km. I think it’s been more but since I often didn’t start my watch as I didn’t see it as exercise the total amount wasn’t tracked. Need to do that more consistently.
- one hour of swimming. I was tried at 20 minutes and figured I try for 40 but then I was in a flow and managed 60. Slight muscle ache next day but no sore muscles.
I am not happy with this month. But May was hard. So much work and I didn’t manage to get up early enough to do it before work. And I am not good in doing anything after work. Nothing new but a good reminder. For June I am hoping to find some routine again.
How is your training going? Any milestones you want to share? What are you struggling with? Any motivation to share? Do you have a bike and use it? What is your daily step count?
