Tuesday Notes on Exercise
Aug. 28th, 2007 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsLast laugh's on all y'all voting for the Saga of the Ticky Box - I don't write in Middle English! (I am a bit fascinated at which two ideas have been neck-and-neck for first place. Who knew the most popular Doctor Who concepts would be ones that don't involve the Doctor at all!)
Trying something new today. I bought Yoga in Bed: 20 Asanas to Do in Pyjamas and am doing a stripped-down version as soon as the alarm goes off. Although the cats want me to bound out of bed and feed them immediately, my ability to leap up at the first notes is... nonexistent. However, I can wriggle my feet, and stretch my arms, and that gave me enough energy to do some of the other stretches and by the time I got up my neck was still tight as steel cable (that's going to need some professional work) but the rest of me was ready to deal with life.
I'm going to try to keep this up and make it part of the regular routine. I'll keep y'all postedwhether you could care less or not.
Did one of the slowest exercise CDs (Bollywood) on the basis that the basement is not air conditioned and it doesn't take much to work up a sweat these days. Not only is the heat bad, the humidity is so high that I have to empty the basement dehumidifier twice a day - and that thing has a 90-pint container! (Non locals - when you hear someone in this area talking about people "going down" at the Renaissance Festival, we are not, alas, discussing fun sexual acts. We're talking about fainting from heat exhaustion. And apparently we had a record high number of people dropping during the record high temperatures last weekend.)
Anyway, I'm probably not going to be doing the really fast-paced music mixes until the heat breaks. We've had some corking thunderstorms, but none that really cleared the air.
Trying something new today. I bought Yoga in Bed: 20 Asanas to Do in Pyjamas and am doing a stripped-down version as soon as the alarm goes off. Although the cats want me to bound out of bed and feed them immediately, my ability to leap up at the first notes is... nonexistent. However, I can wriggle my feet, and stretch my arms, and that gave me enough energy to do some of the other stretches and by the time I got up my neck was still tight as steel cable (that's going to need some professional work) but the rest of me was ready to deal with life.
I'm going to try to keep this up and make it part of the regular routine. I'll keep y'all posted
Did one of the slowest exercise CDs (Bollywood) on the basis that the basement is not air conditioned and it doesn't take much to work up a sweat these days. Not only is the heat bad, the humidity is so high that I have to empty the basement dehumidifier twice a day - and that thing has a 90-pint container! (Non locals - when you hear someone in this area talking about people "going down" at the Renaissance Festival, we are not, alas, discussing fun sexual acts. We're talking about fainting from heat exhaustion. And apparently we had a record high number of people dropping during the record high temperatures last weekend.)
Anyway, I'm probably not going to be doing the really fast-paced music mixes until the heat breaks. We've had some corking thunderstorms, but none that really cleared the air.
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Date: 2007-08-28 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-28 05:45 pm (UTC)Nor mine!
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Date: 2007-08-28 12:50 pm (UTC)*blink*
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Date: 2007-08-28 05:46 pm (UTC)May I ask where you picked that up? 'Cause it sounds like a great way for me to get myself moving again, as well...
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Date: 2007-08-28 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-28 06:09 pm (UTC)Just look at Blink. When it's done well it's brilliant. (Don't look at L&M though - probably for the best)
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Date: 2007-08-28 06:41 pm (UTC)L&M was a cute idea that didn't work in execution. It wouldn't be bad to revisit the idea of Doctor-spotters, but preferably without the loser connotations and the really creepy bit with the paving stone.
Still, I think the companions when they're not with the Doctor are possibly the biggest fanfic fodder there is, on the basis that there is so much to use and so little canon on the subject. (An idea for a future Lost Luggage, perhaps?)