Fitness / circuit training

Where are the weeks going to? If any one can figure that humdinger out, please send me a postcard to: Mr Ablaze, My House, Ireland Time is flying in and I missed last week's update, so in an effort to catch up on myself, I'm going to do a two for one effort here by cramming week 11 and week 12 into one post. I started out on this road at the start of January, and to be totally honest about it, I thought that by now life and its hecticness would have curbed my new found fitness regime. Over the weeks, there have definitely been a few times, particularly first thing in the morning at around 6:15am, that for want of a better phrase, "I couldn't be arsed!" But I managed to get past that little lazy thought and just jump out of bed and get stuck straight into the morning session. The fact that I am still going strong coming towards the end of March really pleases me, and even though I am having more rest days, and I know as the summer approaches it will be harder to squeeze in the exercise, I am still going to try and persevere in some way or another, and will continue to track it in these weekly updates, which gives me a kind of accountability and something to look back. Thanks to you all for the collective updates, comments, encouragement along the way. It definitely makes a big difference. Right then, let us continue along the path towards the main meat of this post, which is my exercise schedule for the past two weeks. WEEK 11 EXERCISES Day 69135 x pushups90 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)90 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 100 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box10 minute Mindfulness Day 7080 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)x sit ups 100 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box Day 71170 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)400 x sit ups 100 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box10 minute Mindfulness Day 7260 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 100 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box Day 73Rest Day 75150 x pushups100 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)100 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 150 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box10 minute Mindfulness Day 76210 x pushups200 x sit ups 50 x leg lifts (Abs)200 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box WEEK 12 EXERCISES Day 771 x golf30 minute Mindfulness. Day 7840 x pushups50 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)50 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)100 x sit ups 50 x jumping jacks50 x No weight arm exercise 75 x shadow box10 minute Mindfulness Day 7940 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 70 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box Day 8050 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 50 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box10 minute Mindfulness Day 8150 x pushups80 x Dumbell curls (9Kg)80 x Dumbell side lifts (9Kg)200 x sit ups 50 x jumping jacks100 x No weight arm exercise 150 x shadow box Day 8210 minute Mindfulness Day 8310 minute Mindfulness Closing in on Day 100 It starts with a day, then a week and a month seems a long time away. Suddenly I am closing in on 100 days of exercise, albeit with some rest days thrown in along the way, but these days I try and at least get a long walk or a mindfulness session in on those rest days. So if I am not exercising my body, I am at least exercising my mind. This is arguably more important than the body exercises anyway. So, if you are struggling to get that drive to get you up and active by going for a walk or hitting the gym or the pool or whatever it may be, how about setting aside 10 or 15 minutes a couple of days a week for mindfulness instead. It is easy, it is free and it is definitely worth doing in my opinion. You can download Insight Timer for free in the App store or there is also Headspace which I think you may have to pay for, but I find the free Insight Timer to be excellent. Thanks a million for reading as always. Peace Out.