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Posted Jun 4, 2015

I usually have a pairs PT session on a Friday morning, however this week we had to bump it to Thursday - today. With the weather being so utterly beautiful, we decided to cycle the 6-ish miles to Deep Mill where we train, which was a delight.

Posted Jun 3, 2015

With another full day on site with a client, Juneathon options have been limited. A horrendously late night last night hasn't helped matters either! However, current logistics often allow me to head over to a blissful yoga session with Yoga By Ellie, aka Mrs H, and this evening was one of those!

Posted Jun 3, 2015

I was hoping to manage a run today, but decided to do an early weights session anyway, with my friend Holger. Starting around 6:30AM (fools), we worked mainly on chest and back, with sets of bench presses, flys and so on, for about 45 minutes.

Posted Jun 1, 2015

It's late, and I've an early start tomorrow, so let's keep this quick! I managed a quick lunchtime run at work in Rickmansworth - not sure the distance of 3 miles on Strava is right, but hey! Then, this evening, I had an hour of Wild Training in Hervines Park, Amersham. Apparently, according to my FitBit, I've done nearly 9 miles, but more than half of that will have been walking. So - day 1, tick!

Posted Mar 11, 2015

Posted Jan 31, 2015

I am a broken man. The combination of minimal sleep over the last few days, plus yesterday's upper-body workout, has left me absolutely shattered! You know that thing when you become run-down, and start getting colds, headaches, delirium etc? That.

Posted Jan 31, 2015

Friday is pairs PT day. Last Friday wasn't, though, due to illness, so in fact this week there has been a pair of pairs PT sessions. The first one, on Monday, concentrated on legs, so today was mainly working on the upper body. It was very hard!

Posted Jan 29, 2015

I had to work at home today as we had so many shipments coming. Our oldest has a trip to Germany with his school tomorrow, with a "stupid o'clock" start time, so we needed to make sure everything could be signed for. With limited time, all I was able to fit in was an unexpected walk to run some errands in the afternoon. Given I've been home, 4.5 miles seems a pretty good effort!

Posted Jan 29, 2015

My plans are rather falling apart here as we near the end of Janathon, so thank goodness that Wild Training was scheduled in! A freezing cold one, it was, but enjoyable (even if I couldn't feel my toes by the end).

Posted Jan 28, 2015

So many things to do by the end of the month! My main planned Janathon activity was to have been a yoga class, but circumstances didn't turn out as expected, sadly, so I had to resort to a set of press-ups and some extra walking (just over 4.5 miles in the end).

Posted Jan 26, 2015

Result! My regular Friday morning pairs PT session was cancelled last week as the trainer was ill: we managed to reorganise it for this morning! This is therefore a "two sessions" week, so this morning we concentrated entirely on legs.

Posted Jan 25, 2015

That'll be payback for being out most of the day yesterday... There has been a lot of catching up today, very little of which counts as exercise. All I can really claim, and this will have to do, is about half an hour of yoga with Mrs H as she tried out her new class plan on me. Now I just crave the peace of sleep, so that's where I'm going. So, until tomorrow...

Posted Jan 24, 2015

Today has basically been a music day. OK, this morning was spent briefly helping out Mrs H plan a yoga event by checking out some possible local venues, but once lunch was done, it has been rehearsals and concerts all the way.

Posted Jan 23, 2015

The week has caught up with me: I'm completely exhausted.

Posted Jan 23, 2015

... and that's the write-up, not just the exercise! With a parent's evening and orchestra rehearsal after work, options were severely limited. Again I had to resort to some substantial walking (15,177 steps / 7.05 miles - which did include the odd run to the station etc). I also managed to bash out a final 30 press-ups to round things off... I would have liked to do more, but hey, that's life right?

Posted Jan 22, 2015

Very busy, so keeping this brief! After much juggling (hockey lifts, Mrs H on circuits etc), I managed to just have time to run to Wild Training at a nippy Hervines Park, do the set there (resistance bands in all sorts of awful ways) then run back. Final score: 13,814 steps/6.5 miles over the day according to my FitBit; and a full set of achy muscles!

Posted Jan 20, 2015

There were plans; I was going to be back on Wild Training, followed by a yoga class. But plans change, and this time it was the Wild that took the bosh. However, all wasn't lost, as the yoga still went very nicely, thank you! Probably a rest wasn't a bad plan, either, as I'm still a bit achy from yesterday... And I can't complain despite the cold, since the class was in our room with underfloor heating. This is very much preferable to the ideas I've been reading on other Janathon blogs involving outdoor yoga..!

Posted Jan 20, 2015

Posted Jan 18, 2015

Or, more accurately, it took Google Play Music All Access, which I find myself listening to more and more these days. It has been day 2 of our penultimate "yoga weekend", with Mrs H out since late morning on her course, and a rather full day for me and the kids in her absence. This meant that basically every minute had been accounted for, pretty well from waking up to this minute! We had made it through hockey tournaments in Stowe, and orchestra practice in Amersham; practice and homework were (mostly) done, dinner cooked, eaten and washed up; and food order placed. But there were a few emergency items still to collect, hence the emergency shopping trip, and me starting this blog post as I walk back from Tesco!

Posted Jan 17, 2015

This post might alternatively have been titled "emergency press-ups". Mrs H left at 7:50 ish this morning, back at 8PM; she had one of her last yoga teacher training days at Yoga Junction in Crouch End. So it was me "home alone" with the three kids, without much chance to get out for some training.

Posted Jan 17, 2015

It's 7:30 on Friday morning, it's ... pairs PT time! Woo, yeah. Today, upper-body strength was the name of the game, with all manner of bench presses, dips, curls and what have you! There was some excellent shoulder work too, with weighted flies in different directions. An hour of that was a most invigorating start to the day.

Posted Jan 15, 2015

Given last night's horribly short sleep, today has actually been alright, albeit a bit busy. I basically haven't stopped between 6:50 when I got up and now, so wasn't able to fit much in. On the plus side, orchestra was fun this evening. We have a concert next weekend with the Misbourne Symphony Orchestra in Amersham if you're interested!

Posted Jan 15, 2015

Too much to do, not enough time! I did manage a run, though - a sneaky 4.4 miles round Amersham in the evening. It was cold and wet, and felt rather hard without being fast, but I'm glad to have actually made it out!

Posted Jan 13, 2015

Glorious morning walking to work, beautiful day ... then lunchtime brought thick, dark clouds and nasty cold rain. With work pressing in on me too, I had to give my idea of a lunchtime run a miss. Shame!

Posted Jan 12, 2015

Another full-on day, but luckily I managed to keep my Janathon streak going with a place at tonight's Wild Training in Amersham. This week is the first in the so-called "complex phase", which makes extensive use of elasticated bands to focus on particular muscles. The main moves were:

Posted Jan 11, 2015

Busy day! I've done loads, but now it is 23:20 and a run is out of the question. I've gone for the "token" option: 20 press-ups and a 1:16 plank. (I'm guessing a tax return doesn't count?).

Posted Jan 10, 2015

It wasn't what I'd planned, but nonetheless today has been a good day.

Posted Jan 10, 2015

This evening, our three children each had different events going on. As one of them involved packing and leaving on a winter camp, there was never going to be a lot of time for exercise between taxi and other parental duties!

Posted Jan 8, 2015

Thursday evening is orchestra evening (the Misbourne Symphony Orchestra in Amersham), and I had an errand to run in Watford this lunchtime, so I wasn't sure where Janathon was going to fit today. Then Mrs H suggested I might like to try the yoga workout she had just prepared: she didn't have to offer twice! What a great start to the day, and I like the way that yoga helps to clear your mind; I have a few things going on that are taking a lot of mental effort, and yoga is one of the main sources of relief. Nice one, YogaByEllie!

Posted Jan 7, 2015

... but shattered! A long day working and travelling left little chance this evening to manage Janathon. I had hoped a yoga session might be on the books, but tomorrow now looks more likely for that.