Thank God It's Friday!

It is Read the Book Day - so read a book. Try to read as much of a book as you can. Try to beat a record. Read at least 400 pages.
Is there a book you have wanted to read for a long time, with less than 200 pages? Get it read today!

It's also the Independence Day of Swaziland, so make some Swazi food, like chicken dust - a grilled chicken served with salad and pap (much like polenta).

Make some coffee ice cream for dessert, because it's also the national coffee ice cream day.

I want to remind you again about the fact that YOU are doing this for YOU, so YOU pick a thing that can be done in a day FROM YOUR LIST. 


100 pushups
I can't do one pushup, so it's column 1 for me. 4-5-4-4-5+ - 60 seconds rest between sets

20 pullups
I can't do any, so it's week -2 for me :-D
It's five sets of 1 negative pullup with 120 seconds rest in between.

And don't forget the split! Today we get to add one stretch to the routine!YAY!

Day 5 of 365

It's International Day of Charity.
Buy a goat to someone and check out "change someone's life to the better" from your Bucket list.

Then enjoy a good cheese pizza. (It's also the National Cheese Pizza day. Cheese pizza is, of course, pizza with cheese on top. Duh. You could use this day to learn to bake the best pizza!)

And  perhaps watch The Volunteers. :-D

Last time this week:
C25K
Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
It's just 30 minutes, and then it's done. And "60 seconds of jogging" is you jog for as long as you can, preferably 60 seconds.
You do this three times this week, not every day.
And don't move on in the program until you can do this.

Remember to do your splits stretches. Last day for the first five.

 

The middle of the first week of September!

Are you still with me? YAY!

I am, and I'm very happy about that.

Today is
the National Wildlife Day - so let's watch some nature documentaries
the macadamia nut day - so let's bake something with macadamia nuts
and the paperboy day - so let's make something with newspapers, and a paperboy hat.

Watch The Jungle Book this day.

100 pushups
I can't do one pushup, so it's column 1 for me. 3-4-2-3-4+ - 60 seconds rest between sets

20 pullups
I can't do any, so it's week -2 for me :-D
It's five sets of 1 negative pullup with 90 seconds rest inbetween.

And don't forget the split!

September third

Is the Welsh Rarebit day, so let's make some and watch Phantom Thread - and have Welsh Rabbit with a poached egg on top of it, not too runny, bacon, scones, butter, cream, jam, not strawberry, raspberry, Lapsang Souchong tea, and some sausages. Now, I personally think Lapsang should be enjoyed with milk, and perhaps even a little sugar, but that's me.

Here, BTW, is a "tea lover's bucket list"
How to become a tea connoisseur in a day
How to become a tea expert in six steps 

 Don't forget to stretch for the splits.

C25K
Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
It's just 30 minutes, and then it's done. And "60 seconds of jogging" is you jog for as long as you can, preferably 60 seconds.
You do this three times this week, not every day.
And don't move on in the program until you can do this.

September 2nd, the first Monday of the month!

Celebrate the Vietnamese National Day by cooking Vietnamese summer rolls, Goi Cuon, with beef and Hoisin peanut sauce. Let's make it more challenging by making the rice paper ourselves - and learning some Vietnamese.
Duolingo offers free Vietnamese course. Use the opportunity and spend 15 minutes a day there the whole September, and add "Learn Vietnamese", "Learn a new language" to your goals.
And, watch a Vietnamese movie. (I recommend Cyclo, because in original language the movie's name is Xích Lô - that is; it starts with X.)

Pinterest 10
Really hard this time... nothing really... so I suppose it's almost a rest day for me.
Except that... yesterday I decided not to start running. And I'm getting the running pins... maybe the Universe wants me to try?

On the other hand, I'm supposed to do water training today...  and I really don't want to. There's huge resistance there. I'm almost paralyzed by fear. Panic anxiety. I don't know why.

I went and it went very well. :-)


100 pushups
I can't do one pushup, so it's column 1 for me. 2-3-2-2-3+ - 60 seconds rest between sets

20 pullups
I can't do any, so it's week -2 for me :-D
It's five sets of 1 negative pullup with 2 minutes rest inbetween.

Welcome, September 1st!

01.09
Celebrate Ginger Cat Appreciation Day by watching Aristocats, Three Lives of Thomasina, and Alien; eating kitty litter cake and drinking Ginger Cats (vodka with ginger ale - actually, it should be Cathead vodka, but - uh.) Have a photoshoot with ginger cat. If you can't find a real one, get a toy cat.

Today's workout:

Pinterest 10:

more hand mobility exercises

Surfing
Here's some dry land training

 

abs training hanging from the bar
belly dance
strong core training
some arm exercises with weights
Some upper back and neck stretches
"how to prepare for a 5K run" LOL (They say to walk the 5K on "rest" days)
A shoulders and cardio workout
back stretch routine
"skinny girl, big booty workout"  - Hmm...

September challenges;
splits

C25K
Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
It's just 30 minutes, and then it's done. And "60 seconds of jogging" is you jog for as long as you can, preferably 60 seconds.
You do this three times this week, not every day.
And don't move on in the program until you can do this.

Now, the pushups and pullups are also 3 times a week, with a rest day inbetween, so there will be none of that today.

30 Day Pinterest Challenge, day 4

Daily workout:

more back bridge
more boxing training
training to get stronger fingers and hand tendon stretching. Need that.
abs
waist and belly thingy, sort of climbing in the air
running
belly dance
deadlift
back exercises

I really like this. This way I am training everything I want to train in "lagom" proportions and I can influence the difficulty of the exercise - if it gives me a pole position that is way too demanding to me, I can break it down and train the parts so that one day in the future I will be able to do what the pin says.

But - I didn't do this today either. :-(
Tomorrow is another day, but also it's the first day of my year of reaching a goal every day, so it's pretty packed as it is. Now... I also want to lose weight, and even though I AM losing weight, I'm not happy with the pace. I have lost 8 kilos in 16 weeks. That's a pound a week, and I am not happy about that. I AM happy about having lost weight, but I am not happy with myself. I feel I could have done more. Like taking this Pinterest challenge seriously and actually giving this at least an hour. I mean, at least do SOMETHING.