I know I probably ought to do a little cross-training for core stability and all that, but the problem is I absolutely LOATHE the gym, it bores me senseless, I lose count and generally I'm really quite rubbish at it! And cross-trainer machines make my hips hurt.
We also only have one full income at the moment so I can't afford it anyway.
I like swimming but hate lap swimming as, again, I lose count of how many I've done.
I can't commit to any evening classes as the husband does shifts, but with absolutely no pattern at all. And I can't get a babysitter in for the girl for a number of reasons, chief of which is that she is recently placed with us for adoption and it's too early to leave her with anyone other than us.
I like Pilates but around here you have to sign up for blocks of weeks at a time and I simply don't have the income available to pay up-front, and all the ones near me which are during the day are when the girl is at home from school.
I'm really struggling to find a solution to this.
Any advice would be very welcome...
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"Dee-wee-dee madam?" as they said to me in the shopping centre in Bangkok (true!)(took me a while to work out ...).
I am very fond of the abs section (all 5 minutes of it, tops) of the New York City Ballet workout DVD. Short yet comprehensive. Other folk will have their own favourites. In fact haha I have just found it on YouTube. "Abdominals and Leg Darts".
I did it faithfully twice a week for a few weeks this year but then plopped off the wagon.
Perhaps we should start a "The core stability, stretching and strength work we all know we ought to do, but don't" thread to provide some spurious accountability - like there are running training threads. It should be called
The "My child/dog/cat/neighbour is staring at me but the physio said I have weak glutes and poor core stability" thread.
do some core stuff at home, and go out cycling once a week?
Thanks for your suggestions. What kind of core stuff do people do at home? I'm not very good at motivating myself!
I also have a crumbly lumbar spine so anything that arches the back is out of bounds - I had to stop doing yoga as so many of the poses were back arching, bit of a waste if you can only do half the class...
Right...the bike is at the workshop being 'fettled' - the gears were really cranky and not changing cleanly. Once I get it back I can start to do some cycling.
That's a start anyway...
Doing stuff at home by yourself sounds risky to me. You need to know what you're doing and have someone there to correct you. A change in posture of a few cm can make all the difference.
I do boxercise a couple of evenings a week which has helped my running and you can replicate some of it at home. Mix in body-weight exercises with plyometrics and some cardio (helps if you have a spin-bike but a skipping rope will do it).
Mix in 60 seconds cardio then drop for 60 seconds of body weight (press up, crunches, burpees, zombies, plank).
Well, I went out on my bike today, not very far, but it was good to get back into it and I did enjoy it.
Ah Herbi, I haven't been to a gym class for about a decade! I know what plank is, but burpees?! No idea!
I was the same but have found doing patterned reps gets me over it and helps keep focus. 4 breasts stoke, then 3 BS and 1 crawl, then 2 BS 2C, then 1 Bs 3C etc etc
Well, I went to the pool with the daughter and discovered that my lumbar spine problems have deteriorated so that I can't really do much swimming on my front now - which is a shame as it's just yet another thing I can't do and I hate focussing on the negative.
Bike it is then!
I won a competition of a year's membership to a local leisure suite place! So I can go to the gym without having to pay and then feeling guilty for not using it enough...
The membership includes classes too and I reckon I can get over my hatred of gyms if I'm not having to pay!
I've also got my bike out and am using it whenever I can so things are slowly coming together.