With 2 days to go on my May challenge, I woke up on Friday morning in hideous amounts of pain. It might have been the way I slept, but I had one stiff and painful hip and leg. So I skipped my morning workout (I didn’t think the rower was going to do anything to help my situation), took care of it through the day, and by the evening I was feeling ok to do a workout. I did Pilates Weight Loss Workout For Dummies, which is a DVD I’ve had for ages and been meaning to do more often. It was much harder work than I remember, but fairly gentle on my sore hip and leg, which was my main aim! That was day 30/31 complete, and I’m pretty proud I found a way round my problem!
The final day, I was travelling to visit my parents and leaving early – aiming for about 7.00am (I didn’t manage to leave until about 7.30, that’s procrastination for you!) I got up extra early to fit in a workout before I set off, but I was feeling uninspired about what to do. I decided to re-try another DVD I’ve not done for ages, and went for Claire Sweeney’s Perfect Fit. Now, in all honesty, Claire Sweeney really does irritate me, but she doesn’t talk too much in this so I can handle it. The DVD is broken down into 5 minute sections and you can build workouts yourself or set it to random. You can also select the length of workout (from 10 – 60 minutes) so it’s pretty easy to tailor to the amount of free time you have (as long as you remember to factor in the warm-up and cool-down sections…) I did 40 minutes total, and got a good mix of exercises in, meaning that my final day, 31/31 is complete!
June 3, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Congratulations, Helen! That was quite a challenge and you finished. Well done! I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn’t wait for us to attain our goals to be proud. I think accomplishments are earned along the path and we should celebrate those victories along the way.
June 3, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Thank you, I have to say I’m pretty proud of myself! I totally agree, we should celebrate all achievements, no matter how big or small. We beat ourselves up for the smallest things, to my mind we should praise ourselves for the smallest things too.
June 3, 2014 at 12:39 pm
Awesome work! I am so proud of you!!
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well done on finding a way to exercise without making pain worse! that is definitely an achievement as it is so easy to give in! not that I think you would give in 2 days before the end!!
woohoo!! on to JUNE!!
June 3, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Thanks, I’m kind of proud of me too!!
I might have been more inclined to give in at the beginning of the month, but with 2 days to go, not a chance!
June is up and running, I’m scared!
June 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm
you should be very proud of you!!
it is an awesome achievement!!
I know what you mean about being more likely to give up at the start, I think the least enthusiastic I have been about this year thing was 2 weeks in!
June will be awesome!
June 3, 2014 at 1:05 pm
I’m glad you didn’t though, your blog has been inspiring me!
I hope June will be awesome, and you’re in the final straight now, how exciting!!
June 3, 2014 at 1:08 pm
I am so glad I didn’t too!!
I looked back at where I was a year ago and I can’t believe the difference!
It makes me so happy to hear that I am inspiring you 😀 still surprised, but so pleased!
woohoo for June!! (eek home straight…what to do next :-S)
June 3, 2014 at 4:04 pm
YOU. DID. IT!!!!
Yeah Helen! One month of 31 consecutive days of workout. You are a total bad-ass, my friend!
June 3, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Woohoo, go me!!