Well I woke up this morning..... (that sounds like the beginning of a rhythm and blues song?)......and went to my special running gear drawer - (YES! I have a designated running gear drawer folks!) and got dressed. Unfortunately my Super Clingy Grabby Trousers were in the laundry so I donned my baggy jogging pants and popped downstairs for some Power Juice.
Annoyingly lately, I've had a bit of a pain in my left leg - or rather DOWN my left leg. It tends to disappear once I'm about 200-300 metres into my run but having done a bit of Dr. Googling on't t'internet I thought I'd be careful with it. I sure as hell don't want another bloomin' injury goddamn it!. I've been doing calf stretches on it, you know the sort, on the edge of a step and then dropping down about 20 times in a row, to STRRRRRRETTTCH the muscles plus I've been using the old PINK foam roller on it too. However this morning it was twingeing again and I got nervous about running on it. So......this morning I thought I'd go for a brisk 4K walk instead.
Mrs Dan was doing her thing in the front room to an exercise DVD and I bid her farewell as I opened the door - "Bye Squidgy plops! See you later" I yelled. Then exactly 5 seconds later I came back in to the house - "I'm baaaack!" I said. "Aren't you going? What are you doing for gawwwds sake?". It had started to team with rain and I was bu***red if I was going out walking in the rain and ruining my hair! So what to do?
Aha! (as Alan Partridge says). I had a brilliant idea. I popped outside into the garden and into my shed where I retrieved my mini trampoline. I hadn't used the darned blighter for over a year so today was the day for a "re-visit"! I set it up (as in "I put it on the kitchen floor") and set the oven timer for 30 minutes. Bunged on the radio & tuned in to LBC 97.3 where the generously rotund Nick Ferrari was spouting off about something or other - and off I went.
Luckily the trampoline didn't hurt my leg as the squodgyness of it was gentle on the joints and I completed my half hour jogging bounce, sweating like sort of farm animal! After a few calculations I worked out I'd burned about 200 calories. Not much and certainly nowhere near the 600 odd I burn on a lengthy run, but still enough to make me feel I'd done something to day exercise wise.
SO fellow runners - if your joints are being a bit middle aged (like mine) and you want to give them a rest from the hard pounding of the pavements, get yourself a one of these wee trampolines. You can sweat like a mutha and it's kind to your legs. It's nowhere near as super duper as jogging outside and going for a proper run, but they're fairly small and you can store them without the house looking like a gym!
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I've got a rebounder trampoline but never ever used it. I'll have to give it a go at some point. Perhaps as a warm up to my Davina DVD workout. I've also got a skipping rope I'd like to try but I don't want to smash light fittings.
The mental images can be tempered somewhat by knowing I wore skin tight lycra compression shorts, thereby ensuring that all things "tackle" were kept firmly in place!
Oh dan the man , what a laugh . You have had me in hysterics I have just read your post out to a work colleague ( I'm at work ) & you have had her the same , thanks for cheering us up . Strangely enough my physio asked me if I had one of them to do a excercise on ( I haven't ) its like a running movement on the spot , so I just do it on the floor . He said that would have to do , may get one now . Great post dan .
Haha loved the image of you bouncing along in the kitchen, hope that contraption does'nt mark the flooring or your name will be mud!!
I've got a gym/running gear drawer too, used to hold all my handbags, its under the bed. My priorities have changed since i retired, it's now got 3 bags and loads of tops and capri running trousers. Oh how my life has changed
I have been thinking of getting one of those, but our flat is small and i dont know if it would be more trouble finding a place to store it, and being sure to do so; or throwing up my hands, leaving it out and letting the 6 year old bounce on it every minute of the day.
Well....the 6 legs do unscrew so if you could be reeeeally bothered you could unscrew legs and then the trampoline is FLAT! Up against a wall or under the bed? Bu it wold mean screwing the legs back on when you wanna use it - which actually wouldn't take that long actually. You could use it as part of your work out! hahaha!!
I could probably find a storage spot, but the dscipline of putting it away before the boy returns from school, that would be hard. And once the boy knows there is such a thing in the house, it may well never get put away.
Boing boing! i had flashbacks to Zebedee on Magic Roundabout when i read your post title! the Boing, Boing also made me think of space hoppers, i'd love one of those again! i can see me bouncing down the road on that (though obviously not in daylight!)
Sound like a good plan and avoiding the rain was bonus! Well done on not giving up on your exercise for the day! Your post had me most entertained again !
No room in my little house for a trampoline sadly, too much clutter!
I have been using my mini trampoline for the C25K program (just started week 2!) as I'm scared of shattering my frail knees on the asphalt. I'm hoping it is just as effective Plus I don't want to go outside, the weather is too crap!
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Plus I don't want to go outside, the weather is too crap!
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