🌈Welcome to the Strength and Flex HOME WORKOUT QUEST for May🌈

[ju-ju-]

Hello everybody, I hope you are all bearing up in this mad world we find ourselves in now?

So this months quest is all about finding MAXIMUM potential in a world that limits us right now. So, wherever you are, if you are shielding, socially isolating, going to work, working from home…..and everything else in between, there will be something that you can do. So this is the place to say what you would like to achieve this month, here are some ideas:

•Daily yoga

•Achieving a particular thing, it might be crow, handstand, a pull up, a press up, a tightrope walk, a PB on weights, touching your toes…

•Learning something new…. Perhaps a handstand, a particular yoga move, a type of lift in your weight training.

•Carrying on doing what you are doing… maintaining the frequency and focus.

•Trying a YouTube workout for the first time… there are loads out there, and there is a library here…

healthunlocked.com/strength...

The pic is me doing a handstand in the early hours in Leeds last year. My goal now is to do an L sit, they are really hard!!

So, whatever it is that you would like to achieve, please say below and I will add your name to the challenge.

And let’s have some fun doing what we do 🕺🏽

Happy Panthering

Juju 😻

Members:

Juju

Bluebirdrunner

Linda9389

CookieM

EB43

Cheekychipmunks

Cantstopmenow

[SueAppleRun]

A whole hour and no ones answered? I don’t think i want to do anything other than carry on running and stretching and squatting 😀 Happy May ju-ju

[ju-ju- in reply to SueAppleRun]

I wasn’t sure how this would go down, it’s a bit of a test the water.... I won’t do again if no interest..just thinking of ways to keep us all going 😎

[Bluebirdrunner]

Me please Ju, 👋

I will be carrying on with daily Yoga. The 30 days with Adriene are great, I'm on my third month of these now and really enjoy the quality time and how I feel afterwards.

Still doing the strength/conditioning exercises advised by my physio to help me recover from my foot injury. Will be adding controlled impact bursts next week for three weeks with run/walk on the horizon again!

Thank you for this quest, it will be a perfect place for me to share my progress and feel supported....

I'm waiting for a booklet to arrive from my physio with proper details of the plyometrics and her email address, but I'm itching to get started on the jump work!

Love your handstand photo...😍

Good luck with that L sit ( I need to look up what that is👀😊)

Good luck to everyone keeping moving indoors and out. 🌷xxx

[ju-ju- in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

Superb, you have a great month ahead, and I know those strengthening exercises are going to make a big difference for you.... strong woman

[linda9389]

I think this is a great idea too! S&F is the area I most need to publicly commit 😍. I didn't reply sooner simply because I wasn't sure what to commit to!

I want to keep up the daily yoga for sure. So this month I will commit to:

1. Adriene's calendar for May, including one of the meditation sessions every day - what I'd actually like to achieve is comfort in an ordinary cross legged seating position (without back pain) and

2. I was practising crow almost daily, but have let that go and find I can no longer fly 🙄. So for May, I will commit to achieving a flying Crow.

Nothing to out there, but it would be nice to feel I can succeed in my first S&F quest 😍. Thanks ju-ju-

[Bluebirdrunner in reply to linda9389]

We have seen photographic evidence of your flying crow Linda!😍..you will get there again 👌🤗xxx

[linda9389 in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

I will! Hopefully it's a bit like repeating C25K - more enjoyable when you know it can be done!

[ju-ju- in reply to linda9389]

That sounds fantastic, and I know that crow will be airborne again! Good plan re the comfort in cross legged position, doing yoga so regularly, that is bound to happen. Heres to a great month

[linda9389 in reply to ju-ju-]

I've been doing yoga every day since November and I still find sitting like that gives me backache. Maybe less than at the start, not sure, but I will persevere 😊

[ju-ju- in reply to linda9389]

just a thought, have you got blocks?

[linda9389 in reply to ju-ju-]

I do have a block, although I haven't usednit for sitting. I can now sit more comfortably on a thinnish cushion but wouldnlike to be able to do away with that. I've also noticed sitting is now a bit easier a the end of a session - so I guess there is slight progress ... I just need to be patient 😀

[ju-ju- in reply to linda9389]

If you sit on a block it makes it alot more comfortable for crossed legs... and sounds like you are getting there...

[CookieM]

Me please! 🙋‍♀️

I am also a fan of Yoga with Adriene, and have been doing it most days since completing the January challenge....

I am aiming to do some yoga every day this month!

[ju-ju- in reply to CookieM]

wow great plan, thats fantastic..... yoga is fabulous

[EB43]

I am going to do a full press up. I can plank, I can crunch, I can squat and I can pull up but a proper press up still alludes me. There I've said it so now I'll have to keep up my strength routines. 😅

[ju-ju- in reply to EB43]

Superb, they are tough, I am also working on mine. A great goal to have I'd say

[cheekychipmunks]

Hi ju-ju- , late to the party but I’m in - and I’ll be another one continuing daily yoga with Adriene. She’s my favourite, my daughter introducing me to her in January 2018. 🧘‍♀️

Rather like running (which I started in June of the same year) I started yoga later in life at age 54, and I haven’t looked back. I used to work with horses and my shoulders and back were very creaky, but it’s definitely helped “re-flex” everything! Oh, and I’ve recently nailed crow - when I say nailed, I can fly for 10 seconds and I make myself do so after each session! So cool! 🧘‍♀️

[ju-ju- in reply to cheekychipmunks]

never too late....yay that is so fantastic, crow is fabulous... well done, and great goal to keep doing the yoga daily

[Cantstopmenow]

This post broke into my lethargic state last night and I immediately did 2 of the YouTube videos suggested by roseabi. So thank you! 😁🤣

I would like to commit to a

* 1 hour session - probably a combination of the Lucy Wyndham 7 minute exercise routines.

* Plus 2 other 20/30 min sessions. I'm not sure what these will be yet.

I may have another go at yoga with Adrienne. I found it too slow when I tried it in January, but life is less busy now!

* after the announcement last night I can increase my runs back to 3 per week. (Dog walking has taken priority)

[ju-ju- in reply to Cantstopmenow]

Yay that is all great news, and fantastic goals too

[Bluebirdrunner]

Hi everyone,

I have started adding the short impact work into my week, so far my foot has been complaining the next day...

Having to think hard about whether it's injury pain or 'not done this kind of thing for months' kind of pain. So many muscles and bones in the foot, I feel this may be 'normal' plantar faciitis now, as my foot feels bruised and the heel pad hurts more than when it was rigid.

I've done three impact sessions now, will wait til this grumble settles before trying again...

Yoga still part of my daily routine. 84 consecutive days now with Adriene. Feeling the benefit. 🌷xxx

[ju-ju- in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

good plan re your foot, and fantastic re the yoga. Go easy with the foot in the yoga too. I have given yoga a rest this week as I couldnt work out what was niggling a long standing injury in my foot, and its so much better this week with not doing yoga!