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Got my work in!! 30 min elliptical, kettlebell and floor. Feels good😆👍🏼
Have a great weekend ❤️
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https://youtu.be/ZKIV2ZjFfvg
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something you can do without anything!
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I've got to start incorporating some things like this. Life has been so screwy lately - I'm still working full time, and we have my husband's 2 kids + assorted cousins (they live 1 mile from us and only get to be at their home or ours).... Y'all SERIOUSLY! I'm so grateful for the time my husband has with both his kiddos at home - but this is HARD for a 40+ clean freak that's never had kids around until about a year ago. My cleaning lady isn't working until this all blows over (and I don't blame her a bit)....my husband is more of an 'outdoor' guy, I don't think he ever notices chaos or messes. I've NEVER had to try to feed this many people, currently grabbing take out isn't an option. The freakin hoarders have killed off many of the simple things I used to grab...wish me luck on my wally world trip today.
When I get off work, I just want to go to the barn & ride my horses - enjoy the quiet. I'm really competitive and am training for competitions. It's a LOT of work. I constantly feel rushed these days and there's literally no time for me to chill. Last night I finally had dinner ready at 8:45
I'm done whining, I'm grateful to have a secure job (for the moment)...it's just that life has been really stressing me out lately. Everyone is talking about how much they're enjoying the time at home and the things that they can do there.....it's life as usual for me but toss in 10x the chaos with all the kiddos. Thankful tomorrow's Friday - I think I can survive one more day this week....counting down the days till we figure out a new 'normal' - this can't be it.
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@weatherking2019 , Thanks so much for posting those sources. It's a good reminder to snap the mind back in place! I've been running regularly the last two weeks, but I do miss my pole classes and feel like I should be doing some home-training for this before I lose too much muscle and mobility. Trying to find that switch to finally just do it.
@cayenne_007 , I feel you. We don't have kids around, just a cat for what it counts. But the search for a rhythm is real. There is a sense of routine, but mostly because we are in the fortunate situation that we have secure jobs and can work from home and have plenty of space. So that once breakfast is done, everyone can go to their own little space (cat participates in that game), and we can go about our stuff. We keep up the same type of morning or work routine conversations. We keep going for our lunch walks and maintain the same topics as we usually would (we work in the same company, so usually other colleagues join). In the evening we close shop, return "home", and switch to private mode. It helps.
Once a week we still have to go back to office to check on things. There, and in the streets, one can notice that people take the installed restrictions more and more serious and even walkers make little detours as to keep the distance. The streets are quiet, shops are closed. It's like waiting for the apocalypse. Well, that's my troubled mind speaking. I do find it eery though. Pleasant only in the sense that there's less stress at work without clients pushing and deadlines all of a sudden being not really meaningful anymore. For the rest, I don't like this sense of waiting for the storm to pass. Weird.3 -
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@jacau that one is for you!! Little bit everyday. It might be time to think of installing your "own" Pole! Some ppls have it, right?
@cayenne_007 Whine away! It's fine. I hear you. I'm working FT from home and finding out the more you do, more work comes your way! (Lazy folks disappear!!) And somehow, my workload became much more. (doing work for others)
But it is nice that I don't have to drive 36 miles everyday. I'm saving mileage on my car
Also I get to sneak in 10 min mini workout breaks. I can't do that in the office!!
So looking at it from the right side:
1. I get to sleep an extra hour everyday
2. I don't have to wear makeup
3. I don't have to make lunch in the morning for 4 ppl
4. No commute
5. Mini workouts through out the day
6. Eat lunch with kids or with fiance
7. Check on laundry or other stuff
8. Start on dinner early!!!
My kids are driving me crazy in a different way. They don't come out of their rooms!
They are always group chatting or something online and becoming LAZY... No outside time. It drives me crazy. And you think they have so much free time, they want to help me out?? Well nope. Not much of a helper unless I make a huge deal. Teenagers. urgh.😒1 -
This one is good. Try it out!
https://youtu.be/lxVLxxgUseA 1 -
weatherking2019 wrote: »@jacau that one is for you!! Little bit everyday. It might be time to think of installing your "own" Pole! Some ppls have it, right?
@cayenne_007 Whine away! It's fine. I hear you. I'm working FT from home and finding out the more you do, more work comes your way! (Lazy folks disappear!!) And somehow, my workload became much more. (doing work for others)
But it is nice that I don't have to drive 36 miles everyday. I'm saving mileage on my car
Also I get to sneak in 10 min mini workout breaks. I can't do that in the office!! So looking at it from the right side:
1. I get to sleep an extra hour everyday
2. I don't have to wear makeup
3. I don't have to make lunch in the morning for 4 ppl
4. No commute
5. Mini workouts through out the day
6. Eat lunch with kids or with fiance
7. Check on laundry or other stuff
8. Start on dinner early!!!
My kids are driving me crazy in a different way. They don't come out of their rooms!
They are always group chatting or something online and becoming LAZY... No outside time. It drives me crazy. And you think they have so much free time, they want to help me out?? Well nope. Not much of a helper unless I make a huge deal. Teenagers. urgh.😒
Yup, I do have one. It's been packed up since moving houses last year. I'm already thinking about where to put it. In the attic is no option as with the sloped ceiling etc. there is not enough space for moving. It's a good area, though for doing non-pole exercises, like yoga, pilates, etc. where it's easier to direct where the feet, head and hands extend. next floor has one room as well, where the only potential victim at some point may be the ceiling lamp if kicked by accident. Or in the living room - my favorite option. Bit higher ceilings, sufficient free space to not kick furniture or the cat by accident... will discuss later with my guy to see if he can live with me practicing in the living room.
It's more a matter of easing into a routine with this. With running it worked quite well so far. Time for the next level...
Good luck with the teenagers
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@weatherking2019 - I think that's what's been making me bonkers. The kids are being so LAZY! I don't get it. Their Mom got them each an iPhone 11 with unlimited data for Christmas - worst gift ever for a 14 and 11yo. Other than what their Dad makes them do, if you turn your back for 1 min....they disappear and are glued to the dang screen.
THANKS for the graphic! It's easy & quick and I'm doing it for the month of April! I've seriously been fighting motivation lately, and this is a great place to start!
How was everyone's weekend?2 -
For 3/30 core workout!
https://youtu.be/AdLPaGdYIZc 1 -
We just got off 14 days tight self-isolation due to travel, and thank goodness because I think I am going nuts. I hate being in the house and doing 'projects' or cleaning.... and only 1 road runs thru our valley so when I walk it's either that way... or the other way. I think I must have read 50 books online and even bingewatched that 'stoopid' Tiger King series on Netflix. Like a car wreck you can't look away from. And waaaay too much snackies. I think I've eaten a kilo of old cheddar in the past 3 or so days.
I'm jumping in at the deep end tonight as I go full-time again at work for the foreseeable future (Security/Policing). I was a bit spoiled before as I got to choose my hours - generally 24 or so a week. Now due to some co-workers' family health concerns they cannot be out in public to protect their vulnerable family members (with cancer, and other auto-immune disease) and I will be taking on both my usual shift and theirs. At least that will force me into approx 5 km a night on patrol walking briskly, and keep me away from boredom and a fridge full of food.
Stay healthy, compadres!6 -
3/31 first workout of the day
https://youtu.be/m8HScrQndpU 1 -
4/1/2020 10-Minute No-Equipment Flat-Belly Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oTfGFUjutw 0 -
I don't know about you guys but I am waking up sore every day! I'm going to have abs of steel doing these!! lol 1
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weatherking2019 wrote: »I don't know about you guys but I am waking up sore every day! I'm going to have abs of steel doing these!! lol
Today is my 'reboot' day! LOL! SO far - I'm on track. I'm trying to ease into a few things to find my routine.1 -
4/2 10 MIN CARDIO WORKOUT AT HOME (Equipment Free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjmsApWcyCU 0 -
4/3 ABS!!! This one is tough. But nothing is easy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnYl6Nk9GOA 1 -
Sorry, I just have to vent a little bit:
My eldest sister is driving me crazy as she is bending the quarantine rules and proud of it
I've now put the family whatsapp group on mute for a week because of it. My capacity for digesting stupidity has reached critical levels and I'm feeling sad that this behaviour is from someone who has been raised in the same household as me. It got to me so bad yesterday that I've been creating a applecake from scratch just so I could do some emotional eating. I hope that the communication break will help control my food intake again. 3 -
@Antiopelle, Sorry to hear that. My fiancee has a similar issue with his young brother. He's the other extreme. Sending him everything he reads. All these articles and stories of where and how it started, what's going to happen and this that-non-stop! He had to ask him to stop sending him texts anything related to COVID-19. (was getting close to 20 text a day starting at 4am) So we're all tired and stressed.
Apple cake sound so good right now. Enjoy it and burn it off later!
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Thanks @weatherking2019 . I just shouldn't let it get it to me like that. I'm sorry to hear this from your brother in law, I hope people will start to act normal again pretty soon !1
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@Antiopelle - I'm so sorry. I dearly love my mother in law but at first she wouldn't take it seriously. She's super healthy & fit, but is in her 70s and was just ignoring it. I went full blown red headed crazy on her, my husband and the kids at dinner one night.... I kinda feel bad, but I'd probably do it again.
(The first day they closed non-essential biz, she took my hubby's kids grocery shopping and to get some other fun stuff. We'd been refusing to take them to the store, I run in and get what we need... so it was field trip day with Grandma.)
I just want everyone to act right so we can all get back to normal. I'm so tired of cooking dinner every.single.night. It's un-ending.2 -
4/6 OTF At Home Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxSUxV7qVgk 1 -
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4/10 10 Minute Ab & Oblique Sculpter | Total Body Transformation Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0bwgcjwq0
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4/13 Toxic SQUAT CHALLENGE WORKOUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSq6zuAEIzs 0 -
Any recommendations to sub for squats? My knees ache the day after I do them, I'm going to try to study a few videos today and make sure my form is decent... Fighting being frustrated at it. It's not the muscles in my legs that fail - they burn and it's a great workout.2
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cayenne_007 wrote: »Any recommendations to sub for squats? My knees ache the day after I do them, I'm going to try to study a few videos today and make sure my form is decent... Fighting being frustrated at it. It's not the muscles in my legs that fail - they burn and it's a great workout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EThjxLv6etU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXLc7ekmUQg
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Thanks!!! I'll give that a try at lunch tomorrow!1
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4/14 I did this today: 15 min FLAT ABS + TONED ARMS Workout (At Home + Apartment Friendly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHVi2DViG-k 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN5Nu1aeYyc