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labelleizzy: (strong)
Friday, June 28th, 2013 01:17 am
Wow. Thursday night, and I'm still sore from Wednesday's workout with Tal.

She sure does keep it interesting, though. Each workout has at least one component that's repeated from previous workouts, and at least one that's completely new. I'm impressed. She can also adapt on the fly to new information I give her.

Like that I used to have problems with impact-based incontinence. Running in place in the taekwondo class ... was embarrassing.
*wince*
So we finished up Wednesday's workout with me laid on a mat and her explaining (and me practicing) proper Kegel form, and bringing it together with some subtle abdominal exercises. That was very very useful.

This week will be the first week in a long time where I will work out hard three times. Monday Jeff and I both went to the gym, Wednesday and Friday I'm working with Tal. I'm seeing and feeling results well beyond simply having sore muscles... I'm finding hollow places where muscles are providing structure to the overlying flesh. And it's possible I've lost some volume... but I keep forgetting to do the second-month measurements.

I'll try to do that tomorrow, and I'll put behind a cut tag because of friends who express feeling triggery around numbers. No weight talk; we're actually giving away our scale before we move house since it's been literally collecting dust (and cat hair of course).

Ugh. It's too hot to sleep tonight.
I'm going to go try anyway.
labelleizzy: (autumn leaves)
Friday, May 3rd, 2013 01:28 pm

Working out is *fun*.
Tal seems to grok that a) bodyweight exercises are both more appropriate for the shape I'm currently in (ROUND is a shape!) and b) that mixing it up, making each workout different, is the most engaging.
I don't think we have done the same exercise twice yet, barring warmup on the fitness center stairs.

 

bless her. I admitted I didn't do my homework between Wednesday and today (was supposed to do an hour of something cardio and an hour of yoga, oy, that's a lot!).
She asked, semi rhetorically, "what am I supposed to say to that?" in her slight accent.

 

I said mildly, "Say, 'do better next time'."
So she did, exactly so.

 

*smile* I don't know if I will be able to do all of the next batch of homework, she wants me to do two cardio and one yoga (Monday and Tuesday classes I've been trying to attend anyway) so if I can fit one cardio in over the weekend I'll be set.
she also wants me to eat five times a day.
I like how that makes me feel when I do it, so I will definitely try. I'm up to twice today, and I will see how it goes.

 

Balance work is crucial, I was very weak and noodly-muscled when I tried the various balancing exercises Tal asked me to do. Core strength also needs work.

 

well, that IS why I'm working with her. Because I know I need help to get back to a habit of fitness and flexibility.

 

This is the diagnosis phase, where we find out what I'm capable of while simultaneously working to IMPROVE what I'm capable of.

 

Forward Momentum!

labelleizzy: (i dance)
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 12:09 am

Dance class had some ups & downs.

Up: still a great workout...
Down, I got my foot stomped
Up, very therapeutic
Down, I was brought to tears when Claire asked us, after dancing 90 minutes, to consider what in us was "precious" - fragile and worth cherishing... and I thought My Heart, my heart, it is so tender and unprotected... and I cried till tears dropped from my chin ...

but I have now, for the first time, referred to something about Myself as precious. I didn't even know I could DO that. :-/
I didn't know that was an option.


labelleizzy: (Default)
Sunday, September 16th, 2012 12:17 pm
That thorough and detailed massage is paying off.
I can cross my legs, with ankle on knee, without the tension in my hips dragging my leg off my knee. That hasn't happened in years.
My calves are very very sore, both due to Danniel's myofascial work and the (possibly excessive?) amount of warming up and stretching that I did on the stairs after the massage.
I can touch my arm to my ear, even cold and un-warmed up as I am now, and I couldn't before that massage.

I do need to go back to the gym today, both from the must-continue-in-this-helpful-trend way and from the mood-lightening way. I am feeling pretty depressed and thin at the edges today, dried-out and not juicy at all.
Lonely. *shrug*
Struggling to get something new done on the job hunt front, though I think I have something interesting I can do to revamp my resume in a completely new way. I haven't done a complete structural redesign in ... well, since 2004. Okay.

I got stuff to do, and if I'm going to be lonesome anyway, I might as well be productive, too. That will at the least help in stomping the brain weasels, I can't be "useless" if I'm DOING stuff.

=/

Laterz.