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What Jimmy said. Walks definitely count and are also in part an answer to
How does everyone find the time?
Walk to shops, rather than taking the car. Walk home from the post office, the long way. Suddenly you only need to find an extra 15 mins.
What do you lot do on a rest day, after a particularly hard day, to keep it going? Is a 30 minute walk fair game?.
Last year I'd do a 30min spin on the turbo at a low power setting, or maybe as you say a walk. Again, if it's a walk you wouldn't normally have done I reckon it's fine.
30 minute spin on the ebike count? 😉😂
I walk the day at least every morning as a matter of course for 30 minutes, so it looks like I'll achieve this without even doing anything (different).
Booked onto my first velodrome session in over 2 years tonight. Good chance I'll be dead before this starts tomorrow
That’s the challenge!
And the motivation. A promise to yourself to put a small amount of daily exercise into each day. There's more to do everyday than there is time to do it. Not letting the exercise be pushed to one side is the challenge and sharing that with others is part of the motivation.
It's rare that I'll go for a walk or have a specific rest day. Maybe once a week I'll have a gentle bike ride (historically I've done it mostly on the bike, because bikes are ace). I haven't done yoga or stretches. I suspect this depends where you're starting from - if you're average fitness then soft pedalling twice a week may be essential.
@ahsat, can't see Virtual Ride on my phone app, it's just got ride.
New to Strava, so might not be looking in the right place, also not on any subscription, would that be the answer?
can’t see Virtual Ride on my phone app, it’s just got ride.
Think it's just a normal ride, then you change it to virtual after. But AFAIK that will use the GPS, with a weird indoor track that'll be all over the place. I'd use Workout.
Ah I don’t use Strava to record my activities. I use my Garmin and then upload it to Strava. Then I change stuff to virtual ride, etc, after it’s uploaded.
Would love to start swimming but I,m wondering if it's going to be like the first day in primary school!
I aimed to do this last year but didn't due to injury/couldn't be arsed.
Picked it up instead on January 1st and cycled every day for 1hr minimum until sometime mid May when I spannered my knee and had to take time off. Lost my motivation after that.
Definitely going to try again. I've piled the weight on and my fitness has dropped a lot.
Well it’s started well for me. I couldn’t get back to sleep after @p20’s early alarm. So after some efforts to wake up, totally as a result of this challenge, I’ve spun round the local gravel for half an hour. Back by 8 am 🙂
Bugger it, I'm in. My exercise has been too sporadic for a while, need some structure.
It was much easier to get out before work this morning (despite a late night of drinking and a gig) because of the weather/light. When we get to the proper winter dark, wet, cold days this is going to get tough.
Hat, long sleeves, zone 2 runs, nae bother 😉
I'll not post an image daily, but it was a cracker of a morning. Went up Allermuir behind Edinburgh on my mince machine (and got a Strava top 10 on the climb from Bonaly, despite stopping for a few minutes to hold a gate for someone who then stopped to faff in their bag!) - you can see in the photo how cool it is. We have a 500m hill with tough trails on it, and you can see the city from every point on the ride.
12 miles, just over an hour. Had a lovely time.
My first day effort
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/9c7tKun5Ajb
Might do some stretches, sit-ups bodyweight stuff later but very easy
Good pace sir. 💪🏻
Ta but it's cheating really, two short sharp climbs and 3/4 of it steadily downhill. (Used to run the other way, was purgatory!,🤦)
Day 1 done for me, 52km/2 hours on the road
First visit to the gym in over a year, this is going to hurt tomorrow 🙂
Still, all part of the plan - do at least 2 sessions / week to improve my trail running.
Day 1 done at 7am this morning as 8m in the road for the rest of the day. Will be using non bike days to push the press ups and sit ups. May give this yoga ago after all the positive chat about it last year.
Rode bike the long way to local for a couple of lunchtime pints.
Shall dust off the turbo later
Started off well 😂
Rode last night so started the challenge with a reservoir swim. Definitely getting colder now.
Ta but it’s cheating really,
It's only cheating if you're using an e-bike 😉
30 mins on the indoor bike with the rather apt Getting back to the peloton sesh. I also managed a quick walk last night at the back of 12 in case I couldn't be bothered getting out of bed today, bit early to be relying on the walks though.
50 mins on the SUP. Boom.
It's all downhill from here.
@houns - actually riding a bike? Using a turbo? Who even are you?
One downside to today's ride - got stung by a bloody wasp 😡
I started yesterday so I have something to post this morning! It's exciting!
Nice sunny day, I got a bit of sunburn. Just over an hour on dusty trails on the MTB.
Forgot about this. Didn’t manage last year.
So started with a gym/interval workout as I’m stuck offshore.
1hr though to start.
Anyone point me in the direction of a decent dumbell/ barbell routine? I can’t run this year so thought I might do more weights instead.
Was out last night for a hard (for me at the moment) ride, so the first days exercise was a 40 min walk at lunchtime today. But I guess this is the point - I got out to do something.
Surfing today (and yesterday). Bit of a bonus really as the forecast wasn't very promising earlier in the week.
I'll give this a go - should be ok as long as yoga and walking count - as those are my rest day activities
I’ve used the mtb fitness plan which you pay for and download. The 3 sessions per week might not work but you can adapt it to suit you. You also might need to change a few exercises to suit what kit you have.
I also like the StrongLifts app for a simple barbell plan to get you stronger, and WOD generator app where you put in what equipment and skills you have and it develops random CrossFit workouts.
Woah, just seen this.
I'm in.
A long session in a very warm Loch Pityoulish this afternoon. Very pleasant picnic on the beach afterwards too.
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I even had Breagh the safety dog with me 🙂
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though she was really more interested in stones
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4 mile run, with a mole at the counter pretty much the whole way. Not the ideal start. 😂
I'm in, and I've smashed day one!
An hour forlornly following a beagle with poor recall round the woods earlier, and picked up the skipping rope for some cardio this evening.
Pootle up to the local moors this evening. Around 90 mins total, usually around 800ft of climbing on this one but I don't do Strava anymore so I've no idea what it actually is, other than bloody enjoyable and beautiful.
Is that a lighthouse?
Beautiful evening here and a gentle road ride to start. If this weather continues it will be easy to get out after work.
43 minutes of bicycle commuting 10.4 miles, and a 5k/23.5 minute run at lunch time with 10 minute walk to cool down. Made sure earlier before my run there weren't any moles at the counter 😀 Also dashed to the shop on the bike to buy lunch before the run, but didn't eat until after the run, by which time I needed it (the food to eat that is).
A quick blast up and down a local hill, Ben Rinnes. Cracking 😎
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