Nearly halfway through the challenge, can you believe it?! 💪👍😁
I'm still deciding whether today's going to be run day or not so I haven't done today's routine yet but looking at the exercises, it looks like a bit of a breather after last week 🥵 I know a lot of people here do yoga regularly so you should enjoy this lot!
My plan for this week:
Run days - do the jumps / hops before the run as part of my warm up. Do the yoga-type stretches after the run.
Non-run days - add some extra yoga poses before I attempt the stretches. Try out when the jumps fit best (before, after or at a different time).
Have you got started on Stage 3 yet? How are you finding it? Let us know below 😃
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Day 13 done. Whew! Like Stage 1, highlights how very inflexible I am. Good thing about starting from a low base is that I can only improve! 😂
Interesting run this morning. I was trying to run with a static core as per JD tree hugging, and it was kind of working. It felt as though I could operate my legs and arms separately from the rest of me which definitely feels like progress.
Day 13 done. I definitely find this routine easier than last week, but it’s still a challenge - especially the second one, which seems to put pressure on my arms and wrists for a rather long period. That worked up more sweat than anticipated. Plyometrics are right up my ankle-rehab street of prescribed hopping and jumping but much gentler than the ‘explosive’ ones the physio has me doing!
Day 13 done(ish) I went out for a long run today so jumps and hops before the run ✅ the rest... Well I tried to do them but one set of reps was all I could manage and not even that for the second exercise! Maybe not the wisest move to do these after a 7 miler 🙄 hopefully I'll be a better at these tomorrow 🤞😅
Yeah, wow. I definitely needed to amend some of these.
1) pigeon is ok, the only exercise I can do without amending, probably thanks to plenty of pigeons in yoga sessions.
2) Lateral hip stretch: yeah … getting into these is a bit too hard for me. After 3 each side I turned over to do these on my back. I know it’s not the same thing, but I am abysmal at planks, and I cannot hold myself in a plank longer than maybe 10 seconds. (I have yet to do the plankothon, which probably was great prep for this!)
3) Spider-Man rotation… I did the usual extended side angle pose from yoga, but I think he goes deeper. I didn’t. 🥴
Dble leg jump. Ok I have to confess: these are hell for me. For legs and back, as I am not the springliest of runners. So I said to myself, what would 10% increase be and I landed at 5x5 double jumps, to get a sense of these. I could increase over the next days, but will be at a much lower point than he is or that you might be. This meant I also omitted the single leg jumps, but these would be even more risky. (I am a low impact person)
Yeah, week 3 feels like it is definitely not designed for slow-joggling, thyroid damaged, post-menopausal runners like me.
Having said this, I have integrated his calf warmups into the start of my running route, and the core control leg lifts into my Couch25k runs. So Yey!
And this week looked so 'easy' when I watched the videos yesterday! Little did I know 😩 I think I'll follow suit with the lateral hip stretches and do them on my back. I'll give it another go tomorrow but I'd rather do something different that targets a similar area than leave it out completely 👍
I was surprised at how easy I found the single leg hops, I thought they would be the ones I found the hardest. Just goes to show how wrong I got it with this set! 🙈
Yes. I will probably also collate all the brilliant daily posts from @Beatlesforever and pin it, so that other people can still step through the program and read about our collective experiences and add to them. So this challenge can wait and start at any time that fits! 🙏🧡
I decided to do 1 set of reps of the stretches - I've got a 10 miler scheduled for tomorrow and I want to avoid the screaming pains of last week!!
So, all ok really, no problem getting in to the positions, but my arms are my weak link. And the 2nd half of the Spiderman stretch - no way could I twist and look anywhere near the ceiling 🫤.
But the jumpy things were great, and I didn't fall over on one leg 😁.
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