Fit is Fun Club w/b 7th April 2025 (for exercise achieved 31st March-6th April).

[Pollyw]

Hi All,

Spring is upon us, hopefully warmer, dryer days ahead. For some of us this is a time when we want to clear out, organise and in generally re-set. Think this is me, new goals and plans needed.Lots of inspirational people on here so sure I will find the perfect activity for me.

Meanwhile I have my walking with Pea 🐶, my Silver Swans Ballet and my garden.

This is an all inclusive club, to cover all activity and all abilities and the aim is for each of us to highlight our preferred activities to give us all new ideas for exercise.

Please see healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh... for previous ideas.

The idea is for you to post your exercise achievements from last week and your proposed goals for this coming week. This will not be a competition, but declared plans are easier to stick to and encouragement and support from fellow members are good motivators.

By setting ourselves short, mid range and possibly long term goals we achieve a little at a time and with the forum family encouraging us each step along the way we may surprise ourselves by what we achieve. Any and all exercise counts, from housework to marathon running, armchair exercises to wheelchair basketball. Your only limitation will be your imagination.

We love to see photos, so please post as many as you wish of when you're out and about, in the gym, at your fitness class, or boogying down in front of your TV.

Please take some time to encourage your fellow FiF'ers, as this is all about giving each other support and inspiration.

Looking forward to chatting with you this week.

[Gizmocat Moderator 13kg Maintainer]

Thanks for posting. Beautiful picture of Pea

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024]

Good morning Pollyw & thanks for hosting us this week.

What a beautiful photo of Pea , I just want to come & given her a cuddle (with your permission obviously).

This weekend we had a family weekend gathering in Birmingham & had a lovely afternoon tea in a lovely hotel in Stratford Upon Avon . We only had time for a quick stroll alongside the River Severn.

According to the Active 10 app I briskly walked for 254 minutes out of a total 493 minutes walked.

Spring flowers & Stratford Upon Avon riverside

[RG07 Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Sounds like you had a lovely time and the weather was behaving itself

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to RG07]

It was really lovely & fantastic to spent time with my Outlaws . The bright sunshine was making my vision in the left eye a bit blurry even with my sunglasses on ( one of the drops opens up your pupil to let the steroid drops reach the inside of the eye ).

[RG07 Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

I bet you were cursing at times Are the eye drops long term or post surgery?

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to RG07]

I have to take one of them to at least 6 weeks to clear my uveitis but I only have to take the pupil dilating drops for another 10 days . Hopefully at the follow up appointment in a month the examination will show that the infection is clearing up.

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Hope it’s all clear and your back to full strength.

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

Thank you 🤞🏼

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Ooooh that’s doesn’t sound pleasant. Hope that settles and clears.

Bet it was lovely to spend quality time with family. Especially out and about doing things too!

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

Thank you , I did walk around with my left eye closed when it was really painful

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Oh no that’s hard to do. Did it give you headache?

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

A little bit but my vision is more effected with close up vision so I had to be careful with stairs in the bright sunshine & my manual dexterity is not so good if I have just put in the drops .

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Oh you are suffering aren’t you. Hope you can keep coping with it all.

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

My tinnitus is really bad as well & my ENT appointment was cancelled last weekend . I feel like I started to fall apart once I was 50 😢

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Good morning Iwilldothisthisyear,

You are welcome to come and give Pea a cuddle anytime 🐶. Your weekend sounds wonderful, afternoon tea and a walk along the river in the sun, perfect. Your minutes walked and brisk ones are fanatastic. Have a nice day and enjoy the sunshine.

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

Thank you . I am working every day this week so will try & pop out for a quick walk later on my break .

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Quick walk sounds good, break the day up. Dont work too hard ☺️

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

I am having to take extra screen breaks to rest my eye .

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

Imagine you need them. Be hard to look at a screen for too long.

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to Pollyw]

So true ❤️‍🩹

[Wine 6 stone in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

What a beautiful week and isn't it great to see family

[RG07 Maintainer]

Thank you for hosting this week- I had a better week last week fully recovered from the previous week and I achieved my goals. I managed 2 cardio and 2 strength exercises, as well as 5 days of 10000 steps of which 2 were 15000+ steps. I have restarted using dumbbells in my strength training though using a lower weight than usual- going to gradually get back to usual weight. I also did some gardening- cutting down an out-of-control holly bush and ivy. Still got the Bay tree to tackle but have to wait until the garden waste bin is emptied next week My stats for last week are 583 brisk minutes (399mins walking, 75mins gardening and 109mins exercise) and 90066 steps (38.9m).

This week I am working 2 shifts and walking Alfie twice, so I expect to manage 6 days of 10000 steps of which 3 days I expect to walk 15000+ steps🤞. I also plan to complete 2 sessions of cardio and strength exercises each after looking at what I've got planned for the week. I'm hoping the weather remains good

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to RG07]

Fantastic achievement this week RG07 , I am so glad that you are fully recovered.

[RG07 Maintainer in reply to Iwilldothisthisyear]

So am I😁

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to RG07]

Gosh those numbers are huge!!! 583 brisk minutes and 90,000 steps 😳. Fantastic and that is you recovering from illness 👏. What an inspiration you are! Gardening sounds good too, love cutting back and trimming. Feels really good to see all the spring growth.

Enjoy your day x

[RG07 Maintainer in reply to Pollyw]

Must admit my arms are aching a bit with the sawing of thick branches and using the loppers

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to RG07]

Oh bet they are. Must look good now though 👍

[RG07 Maintainer in reply to Pollyw]

Still need to get rid of some of the ivy but have a feeling it will fall into my neighbours garden!

[Wine 6 stone in reply to RG07]

Brilliant 💪🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[jd65 2lbs Restart Feb 2025]

Good morning  Pollyw

I’ve had another great week exercise wise and even tried 2 new classes. I tried step class on Wednesday as my tai chi instructor was sick and Body Sculpt on Sunday morning. I usually go to classes in the day which are full of retired people like myself but the Sunday one was full of youngsters and I still kept up with most of it so I’m pleased.

On top of those two classes I had 3 gym sessions plus yoga, barre and a weights class.

This week I plan to do the same with added tai chi .

Hope you are all having a fabulous week exercise wise.

[Pollyw Host 3lbs Maintainer in reply to jd65]

Wow jd65 you did had a good week 👏. I never do classes, think I am more of a solitary exerciser. Probably should try some out one day. Have a nice day, enjoy the sun!

[Iwilldothisthisyear Restart Oct 2024 in reply to jd65]

Well done , that is fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥳🥳🥳

[Wine 6 stone in reply to jd65]

Brilliant week, I love everything you did last week

[Wine 6 stone]

Beautiful photo of Pea just gorgeous.37 miles last week and it's equivalent to calories from 83 eggs, chuffed with that.

Weeding and digging the allotment and finally got a root out of my garden now will let the ground rest and see what grows and then decide what else to plant.

Keeping up with my Tibetan Rites exercises but didn't do any bingo wings exercises.

Only another 35 miles until I get another medal, really looking forward to it

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