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Monkeycmonkeydo- I can't give specific advice but I've eaten loads every time I've done this with no weight gain.
I went for another run yesterday and am in a bit of pain- my own fault for running as hard as I used to years ago two days in a row straight off the bat. I'm looking forward to having my bike back but I'm off paddle boarding today for a break and that's loads of fun.
For home work outs, in the past when time has been really tight or I've been working away and in a hotel I've done half an hour of circuits. 10 each of squats, press ups, lifting something (when I was away I used my holdall) and sit ups. These were painful but didn't require any special gear and I think they made the biggest difference to my fitness.
I stumbled across this on Tuesday and luckily I'd done a workout at home Monday, so I'm now going to aim to keep this going. I did a big ride Tuesday evening so was quite tired after work last night, but managed to do 30 mins of body weight exercises. Certainly slept well last night.
Felt knackered last night from extended weekend riding, but opened up the Nike UTC app. That's a good app - recommended by someone here. Did a core session for 30 mins, felt better for it and slept like a log.
Running yesterday and another Body Pump class this evening. Ordered new running shoes as I'm struggling with blisters 🙁
Just a quick walk last night as I'd done a few hours clearing the back door of weeds and wotnot. Half an hour on the wattbike at the gym today. But the biggie will be tomorrow, booked in to an inflatable assault course place for daughter#1 birthday, I expect to be pumped after it.
I missed a day yesterday, life and work got in the way. But I'm making up for it today with two sessions. A run at lunchtime to catch up for yesterday and a ride after work.
Fail.
My paddle board plans were foiled by Frenchness- the most French of things, the hire place's website said they were shut and to email for out of season hires, they replied saying they'd be open til 6, we got there and their sign said they were open Thursday to Sunday til 6, then when we went to hire them at 4 he said no because he shut in an hour 🤦♂️
My wife, who hasn't holidayed in France before except in the city, was pretty hacked off about it but you can't go into a holiday in rural France expecting everything to be open at the time it says it's open.
Anyway, I went for a swim in the sea instead.
Commutes all week so far. Looking forward to the weekend when trampolining might make an entrance into my exercise routine 🙂 i know I'm cheating with the commutes but i do race other middle aged folk into work!
I did two rides, then a brisk walk and today I was back on the road bike. I’m trying not to be lulled into a false sense of security with the weather.... I told a friend what I was up to and his first response was “what are you going to do on a wet November day?” I hadn’t thought of that far ahead.
Wednesday was a roller session hard/easy to my playlist (must remember to remove pink Floyd and led Zeppelin from that list), yesterday was a 6km treadmill in the morning then an hour of Pilates.
Half day today so I'll be cracking out the gravel bike.
100 minutes gardening and cycling.Do I get a bonus?
Today was tough as the kids were at my mums after school and Mrs Muggo wanted to go to the pub garden for a drink. Had to be strong and do 30 mins body weights before going out. It was the first time that it felt like a chore.
Muggomagic- yeah, I get a hard time from the mrs if she wants to go to the pub early doors and I say I'm gonna do a workout!
5 days in and already I feel so much better physically and mentally too.
Only rides so far, tomorrow may be a brisk walk/jog (think koush to 5k), but after 12 months of relative inactivity this is what I need.
If you want to follow my progress on Strava you'll find me at no5 on the leaderboard.
I’m still on it!!! legs are feeling sore from running the other day, biking with scouts last night and tomorrow’s kayaking on Ullswater then Sunday a 20 mile gravel ride, keep it up everyone 👍
I missed a day on Wednesday but made it up with a double yesterday. Today I wasn't in the mood but dragged myself out for a ride to the pub for a beer and back. Does that count?
Yesterday's ride was the first time out for the gravel bike since spring. This afternoon I'll be sorting the dragging rear brake.
This morning will be a gentle ride to find some clay for a class expt.
Really enjoying this so far. I have decided that my morning / evening dog walks don't count (for me), so finding ways to fit in extra exercise has been good.
So far I've had a couple of lunchtime runs, a night ride, session of Pilates, a cheeky kayak and a 's/s & bob' supermarket ride. Nothing epic, but all things that I probably wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.
Just hope I can keep the motivation going with dark nights and winter weather...
Flowerpower- that's all brilliant stuff. Well done for not taking the easy option and counting your dog walks.
I did something I don't do often tonight- 10 mile ride but reps of some downhill trails. The climb up is savage, 21% average but with steeper and gentler sections. Some scallies had started a fire on one of the trails so I had to out that out too.
Proof of the effort is the sweat stains on my top tube-
Firefighting skills going to make scenicpees?
I spent 6 hours at work shovelling tons of composting grass clippings so no additional exercise for me today
It was a great night for a scenic pee but I was solo so no one could get the snap ☹️. And my experience of weeing on fires is that it makes a stink but is ineffective.
Stupid image forum grrrrr
Walk yesterday and a home workout today. Simple 1 squat, 1 pressup, 1 sit-up and build up to 10, then back down to 1. Which gives a 100 of each.
Inflataworld on Friday was great fun too, harder going than expected!
We’re both still on it, the youngster preferring bouncing to pedalling but I’m beginning to get that good obsession with cycling everyday like i used to. Rides have been between 45 minutes and 2 hours using the road bike mostly but with a couple of evenings around the woods. The boy is now taking about doing 30 minutes of trampolining every day, reckons he’s just going to wear his gore tex jacket on the days it’s raining!!
Well I managed half an hours stretching, light weights and boxing.As an old fella I,m not finding this challenge as easy as I thought.I guess a touch of depression and living in a "difficult"area doesn't help.I could also do with some ideas for activities.Cycling,walking,weights and stretching are a bit limited.I should try and go for a swim.Its a pity gardening and housework dont count.Is anybody going to include dancing?I suppose it's a form of exercise but not sport obviously.I,m also trying to eat alot but having the right sort of foods is a problem in this culinary desert.
As for running,I think half an hour of that at my age could result in a coronary.
Monkeycmonkeydo- dancing sounds pretty good to me. As for variety, it depends what you like and if you're willing to pay for something like a yoga class. That's a useful day of non-vigorous exercise if you're eager for some gentler days.
For something more vigorous, maybe a five a side league? I am absolutely shit at football but found a team that didn't really care to join one year.
Rock climbing is going to feature in my future, maybe see if one of your council leisure centres has a wall and go bouldering (i.e. without ropes and at low level, so there's less faff and kit). Or you could see if there's a group on the website Meet-up that's doing climbing near you. Or maybe even rambling, I'd not discount how good a hike can feel. The group may help with your depression as well.
I did almost the whole challenge on my bike last year but understand that some people could find that a bit tedious.
@monkeycmonkeydo - I'd second the 'meetup' website as a good place to look. Lots of different activities at various levels, and it is much easier to keep motivated if you're meeting other people. Most groups are non profit making, run by volunteers and are usually cheap / free to join.
Another thing that works for me is a pilates or yoga DVD. I'm fairly rural and struggle to get to regular fitness classes, so once you get the moves sorted, a DVD at home can keep you going. There might be other fitness type DVD possibilities?
How about skipping? Not sure I could keep going for 10 minutes though... never mind half an hour 🤔
That reminds me,I have some yoga DVDs in the house.I,ll dig em out and give it a go.
Well that’s week one done, 30 minute steady jog on Monday, an hour on the turbo Tuesday, Wednesday was 30 minutes rowing machine. Thursday was a little more tricky, I was alone with the eldest (2 1/2 years old) but we went for a walk around together. Friday was a big one, 100 mile ride with work (raising money for wateraid), Saturday morning I went out on the mtb for a steady ride out to the local bike shop/cafe, MrsMomo drove out to meet me there for breakfast and then loaded the bike on the car for the return leg. This evening was another steady jog (and I do mean steady, barely above walking pace but it was enough to get the heart rate up and raise a bit of sweat!)
Thanks for putting this out there, it gave me the kick I needed to sort my head out, I’ve been struggling to shift the weight I put on after our second child came along in March, in the last 2 weeks I’ve dropped 4kg already and I’m feeling better about myself.
Turbo session tomorrow morning to kick off week 2, bring it on!
Well done momo.
I'm in on this, last year managed every day from 01/09 to 30/12 (Took 31/12 off to avoid becoming obsessed and start again in the new year).
Currently ontop of it based mostly on morning turbo training and CX racing.
Managed 30mins on the Wattbike at the gym. Between nightshifts and it is normally a low point for motivation so has jagged me along to do something today.
Well done everyone getting wk 1 out the way. My weeks been a mix of riding and fast walking. Fast walking for me is 1.7 miles in 30 minutes.
Im.enjoying the challenge though. Keep it up everyone, youre doing great!
We might of got more response to this thread if it wasn't on strava.Duplication may not be great in this case.
Response isn't necessarily what we're after, just everyone achieving the goal. It was posted earlier, but I don't think everyone wants to post every day. I think it's chugging along at about the same rate as the STW Chub Club posts.
I'm in a bit of a conundrum about my exercise for today - I rode the medium way to work, 14 miles instead of 4, and it was 35 minutes longer than my normal commute and I was hauling for a lot of it. But I'm not riding home, I have to be on site and take the van. So, compared to a normal commuting day I'm actually only 15 minutes up - does we reckon that counts? I know it's sort of my party, my rules but I think I've been hoisted by my own petard of "normal commutes don't count".
Have you seen the weather forecast for the coming week? Getting out on the bike isn't looking very attractive.
One of the joys of this challenge is that you realise that it's not actually that bad going out in the rain. It's never as bad as you think, and then it sets you up for the rest of the winter.
I love the feeling of overcoming adversity when having ridden in the rain. Just accept you’re going to get wet, work hard to keep warm then bask in the glory.
I tried to squeeze a quick lunchtime run in today, but was distracted by worrying about being late back for a meeting... Checked my Strava upload later and saw I was 6 seconds short 😢 (29mins 54secs)!!
Sitting in bed, typing this and feeling guilty. I'm going to have to get up and do a star jump or something 🙄😄
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Ride to work all last week. Took my lad to the bike park for the first time on Saturday, lovely weather and he's now hot a taste for riding downhill 🙂 Went swimming with the youngest yesterday. Back to commuting today but added 5 sets of 50 press ups during the work day, that's this weeks plan. Thursday I'm out of the office all day so need to come up with something, may resort to one of the wife's Davina dvds in the evening... other suggestions welcome!
Swim today, again up of nightshift and really couldn't be ersed, challenge egged me on to get out the door.
Your efforts are shaming me into action.Thanks,YK.