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| Recently I've started lighting this candle whenever I do a workout at home. It does motivate me! |
45-minute restorative Yoga with Adriene - This was really hard for me. I should probably repeat this one regularly.
Sunday, March 2
35-minute full body dumbbell workout with Caroline Girvan - Too many lunges. Too many.
45-minute yin yoga
Monday, March 3
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union
30-minute Werq (dance) class
Tuesday, March 4
45-minute body blast at the community center
Wednesday, March 5
15-minute stretch class at lunchtime*
Thursday, March 6
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union
Friday, March 7
15-minute stretch class at lunchtime
Saturday, March 8
40-minute yin Yoga with Kassandra - It's rare that I say a yin practice is tough, but here we are. There were some tough poses there. That means I should probably do this more often.
Sunday, March 9
25-minute total body with light weights - I stopped this a bit early because I did something to my back. I was using three pound weights and things were fine until they weren't. Off to figure out what's going on with my back.
30-minutes of back stretches - this might be bad
Monday, March 10
Tuesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 12
All off. I took these days off work. Pretty sure this was a kidney stone.
Thursday, March 13
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union - Took this nice and easy.
Friday March 14
30-minute gentle yoga - Easing back in slowly. This video has a dog named Luna and some adorable kittens.
Saturday, March 15
30-minute bodyweight workout - I did low impact, too. It was the first time in a week I did a "real" workout and I really felt it!
30-minute yin yoga - More cats!
Sunday, March 16
20-minute dumbbell leg workout - I used only ten pounds for this. Easing myself back in!
40-minute yin yoga - A cat named Maggie.
Monday, March 17
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union
30-minute arms and abs with Fitness Blender
Tuesday, March 18
Day off
Wednesday, March 19
30-minute HIIT strength for total body
Thursday, March 20
30-minute chair yoga during lunchtime
Friday, March 21
Day off
Saturday, March 22
35-minute total body with light dumbbells
15-minute post-workout yoga stretch
Sunday, March 23
15-minute cardio warmup
30-minute total body with light dumbbells
15-minute post-workout yoga stretch
Monday, March 24
30-minute yin yoga - This lady's voice is very soothing, but the "breathe what you feel" language was a bit of a turnoff for me.
Tuesday, March 25
45-minute lower body barre workout - I was going to do a total body workout today, but my arms were sore, so I stuck with lower body
15-minute post-workout yoga stretch (again!)
Wednesday, March 26
35-minute yin yoga for legs
Thursday, March 27
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union
60-minute Zumba class after work
Friday, March 28
15-minute stretch class at lunchtime
30-minute yin yoga - Snuck this one in as dinner was cooking. I left my husband in charge of the cooking for once! This is not a great video for me. There is a lot of saddle pose, which is super challenging/painful for my bad leg. I did some modifications.
Saturday, March 29
35-minute upper body and abs from Fitness Blender
40-minute daily flow yoga - Ha ha. My arms were too sore from the arm workout to do this justice.
Sunday, March 30
13-minute total body barre workout
26-minute full body mobility workout
Monday, March 31
30-minute yoga at lunchtime in the student union
30-minute Werq (dance) class after work
Totals: 24/31 (77.4%) of days
18 days of yoga
13 days of strength/cardio
3 short 15-minute stretch classes at lunchtime
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*Our local healthcare organization does free stretch classes virtually three times a week. Sign up here! It's free. It's fun. We regularly talk about candy and what's for lunch. It's a delightful break in the middle of the day. You do not have to have your camera on.
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Were you sidelined because of any injuries/illnesses in March?
Ouch! I've never had a kidney stone, but I'm pretty sure that if you think you had one that you did.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the dog and puppy call outs for the workouts.
I've had a lot of kidney stones - I had one right before we got married and it was the first one I'd ever had diagnosed, but a CT scan showed that my ureter was greatly pocked, indicating I'd had them before. Whenever I have back or flank pain, it's always a toss up if I've done something to a back muscle or have a kidney stone!
DeleteThis one was a toss up because it was a very sharp pain in the middle of a lunge. It was possible that I had just messed up my form or had too much weight or something, but because the pain moved throughout the next few days, I think it was a kidney stone that eventually passed. There was a lot of Tylenol and hot compresses.
Wait! You had a kidney stone!!! I've never had one but I understand it's painful. Well- glad you're okay. Great month of workouts- you had a good variety. To answer your question... I wasn't sidelined with anything in March, but I'm still managing a very angry hamstring. I'm trying to simultaneously forge ahead with my training but also baby that leg a little- it's tricky.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've had a few kidney stones and they are quite painful. Oh, well. I've always been able to pass them without intervention, so I'm lucky.
DeleteUgh. I hope that hamstring doesn't impact your upcoming race!
Ugh, kidney stones are SO painful. I have left knee pain plus the regular neck pain and lower back pain that I try to address by juggling yoga, walking, massage therapy, chiro and physio. It's a pain in the ass (well, several other places actually) trying to figure out the exact balance of moving enough while not moving too much.
ReplyDeleteYES!! I am having a bit of a knee issue and I can't tell if I should be resting it or actually doing exercises to stretch and strengthen it. Why aren't the answers to anything clear?
DeleteOuch! I'm sorry to read about your kidney stone. That's lousy, but over with now? I wasn't sidelined by anything other than the wacky weather in March. I walk outside, so...
ReplyDeleteThe weather here has been sidelining me, too. Lately it's been crazy thunderstorms. I'm NOT walking the dog when there's thunder and lightning!
DeleteI love the idea of lighting a candle. It's representative of the time you're putting in to caring for your body (the faster the candle burns down, the more care you're giving yourself?).
ReplyDeleteI did a full body workout this week with weights and it has slayed me. My legs are SO sore because, as you said about a CG workout, there were too many squats. Once it gets above 60ish in a session I should know enough to turn it off. Now I'm hobbling around and easing myself up and down out of chairs. At least I know I targeted some lesser-used muscle groups.
Squats and lunges can be so painful the next day! Throw in some Romanian deadlifts and you've got a recipe for some tough up and downs.
DeleteGasp! You had a kidney stone!? Those are awful. Good heavens. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteMarch was bad for me. I had a terrible cold/flu/something that waylaid me for almost 2 weeks. I could not stop coughing and I missed some great weather for walking. It sapped my strength completely. And then there were the migraines, thanks to weather. I'm hoping April is kinder.
Egads. I hope April is better, too. At the very least, it should slowly warm up, right?
DeleteGrrl: Love your candle; hate your kidney stone.
ReplyDeleteI was sidelined by inertia... is laziness an illness?
Ha! Laziness is my general state of being. I feel you so hard.
DeleteAck, it was a kidney stone? HORRIBLE! I'm glad you're on the mend.
ReplyDeleteI find restorative yoga classes to be really hard. I have a lot of trouble just chilling and emptying my mind. Shavasana is my least favorite pose. Monkey mind. Lists of things to do. Distracted by noises of Ted and Maya getting ready for work. Every once in a while I do well and I find it is actually restorative when I manage it. I sometimes light a candle too, but mine are a couple of battery operated ones. HA! I'm lazy and cheap.
Happily, no injuries nor illness for me in March.
I actually really like restorative classes and find I can (usually) drop in pretty quickly. But a couple of these videos had poses that were really tricky for me to hold for 3-4 minutes!
DeleteDoes the bitter cold count as sidelining me? It warmed up in the last week of March and I started running again, so that was nice. Just in time to go back to work and not having the time to run... oh well. I'll sneak it in somehow.
ReplyDeleteI've never had a kidney stone, but a good friend of mine did and she was telling me how painful it was and how small kidney stones are. Such a small thing - so much pain!
Kidney stones are SO SMALL. But, man, they can really mess you up. Oh, well. I think it's gone now.
DeleteI feel you on trying to figure out exercise when you're working all day. When do you see your family or eat AND exercise? It's complicated.
Just a minor cold early in the month, but I soldiered on.
ReplyDeleteHa. When I get sick (even a minor cold), I do not soldier on. I take to my bed with warm compresses and Tylenol and think that I am going to die. I'm clearly in it for the drama.
Delete...and I thought men had a bad reputation for dramatizing colds!
DeleteI rarely get sick, so when I do, I live for the drama. My husband is ten times worse than I am, though, and he refuses to take medicine, so he takes forever to recover.
DeleteI have been sidelined end of march and start of April due to the flue and some 4 days of a fever. I hope I can slowly get back to next week. Thank you for linking some of the videos. I have saved four I want to try out. I lately have been doing Kassandras videos too and I like them.
ReplyDeleteKassandra is really good. I like that there are sometimes random cats crawling all around her!
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