So, clearly January is my month-off exercise. I ain’t gonna deny that – I’m just going to do something about it in February. Absolutely. And I know I love to make excuses – one of which is the fact that last few weeks it’s been so cold that the idea of changing into my HIIT kit, or even getting dressed in one in the morning and working in it until a session time – was extremely unappealing. I think part of the fun of doing the HIITs earlier in the year was the fact that I would just throw on the leggings and sports bra and t-shirt in the morning and I was all set for whenever the HIIT desire caught up with me. When it’s this cold, all I want to do is sit snuggled up on a sofa in my big winter jumper. My current residence has huge flaming victorian windows – single-glazed, so it never really gets very warm in winter, especially during the day when the curtains are open. In the evenings it’s a touch better.
See, see how difficult it is for someone like me to get motivated to lose weight and tone up. Any excuse, any reason.
That’s not the reason for today’s entry. Where was I? Oh right, yes – January is my month off exercise. 2.5 HIIT sessions that’s it.
Today however I took a long, continuous stroll from my ‘old place of work’ – called the office. Any of you office workers remember what that is? What it looks like? Yeah, me neither. It just so happens that my dentist is in the city, near my previous ‘work place’, so I ended up in that neck of the woods. Seeing as I used to walk from work home quite often (something that is now a distant memory, and unlikely in the future due to some other changes coming up in my life) – well I decided to take a leisurely stroll home.
I have one word for what happened next. Ouch!
I’ve always been a walker. I used to walk home after work – about 5k. I go fell-walking every year and generally take every opportunity to walk rather than use transport. So I thought I’d be fine. Well – I wasn’t it. No amount of 25 minute Shreds/HIITS can compensate for the lack of walking – specifically lack of training my body and posture in an upward position for a prolong period of time. I suffer from back-pain anyway due to a really weird incident some years ago, so lower back pain is nothing new to me. Today was quite uncomfortable though. My spine always felt a tad compressed after a long walk, but today I was getting to a point when I was seriously considering quitting and getting on a bus.
This is what happens when you spend your entire days sitting glued to the sofa or chair. At least when I worked from the office there was an opportunity to walk – to the office, from the office, across the office to meetings, bathroom, restaurants, coffee shops. Now – now it’s a 10 steps journey from one side of the room to the other.
Moral to the story – never mind the HIIT sessions, I need to get out and start walking again. Get my body stretched, pulled, pushed and exercised in a different way. Strengthen up my core a tad a more, so that walking doesn’t become a real chore in the old age. Basically, start walking again. I might be getting some help with that soon though – fingers crossed – so motivation should not be a problem, for a change; but we’ll see. That’s still a few months way, and subject to few considerations. I’ll keep you posted.
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