jothefanbeing

jothefanbeing

non-binary from Ohio
Pronouns: they/them
Posts: 52
"“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” Julian Jarboe"

Extrovert Exercising

(Sorry this is so long but I love talking. Promise subsequent posts will be shorter.) Hi all! I've been having tons of fun with Darebee - I've tried exercising before but I hate exercise videos with a burning passion, so this poster format has been so good for me. I also love the programs, because then I don't have to think every day. I did Foundation, and then Back & Core alongside Unbound. I feel kind of stupid doing this, but I am an extroverted social butterfly, and quietly exercising at home in the mornings has felt kind of lonely. I'm hoping posting what I do each day will satisfy my desire for a social aspect!

I'm not concerned with my weight or becoming the strongest in the world or something - I'm no athlete. My goal is to set myself up for graceful and conscious aging. I'm only 25, but as a church admin and an active member of a knitting group, I've become acutely aware of how physical fitness can make aging more or less pleasant. My priest is 76 years old, and he's still pretty vital and energetic - goes to the gym and has been known to chop up and move large fallen branches with his chainsaw! I know a woman in her mid-late 60s who will do multiple hour tennis matches and go on days long bike trips. I also know people their age or younger who are less active and more frail. Some of how we age is out of our hands - my beloved godmother has been badly affected by long covid and has POTS, among other chronic illnesses. I watched one of my college roommates be rendered nearly bed bound by early onset rheumatoid arthritis at age 21. They eventually got diagnosed and medicated, but they still have physical limits. I am very lucky in that, other than a leg that can tell you the barometric pressure from a drunk driver when I was 17 and a minor blood disorder that gives me permanent mild anemia, I'm in fairly good health. I want to do what I can to keep it that way.

SO! I'm hoping to focus on maintaining balance (I can feel that mine is less good than it used to be due to aforementioned leg) and a reasonable muscle mass (sarcopenia awaits us all). Also, I can't touch my toes without bending my knees, and the Touch Your Toes Challenge got me closer but not quite there. That is one of my New Year's goals because it's kind of embarassing to me. So I really really want to work on improving lower body flexibility even though it frustrates me to no end when I can feel I've hit my limit but I'm not in the pictured pose...

I actually finished Back & Core and Unbound on Sunday (and I've been doing Perfect Balance, very in my wheelhouse), but yesterday and today I've just picked a workout and done it, because I want to start my next program on the 1st. I always do the Universal Warmup, and plan to do 90 Days of Action Program, Easy Arms Challenge (as prep for hopefully doing a wall pushup challenge and then a regular pushup challenge), and just repeat Unbound as stretching for hopefully increasing flexibility. Copying the format I see from other people, today I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • Tiger, Tiger Level II (Workout of the day - no thought in picking required on my part haha)
  • Finish Line Workout
  • Made what Google maps said should have been a 12 minute walk in 7 minutes of jogging & walking, just in time for the bus lol (I know I wouldn't have been able to keep up the jogging as long a year ago!!)
  • Perfect Balance Day 29 (I'm a little behind)
We'll see how this goes!!
 
Did a lot of cooking after work! I now have 6 burritos in my freezer for future tired dinners, and I made 4 pre-portioned lunches. My feet are very sore now from the unforgiving kitchen tile haha.

I did in the morning
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Program Day 1
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 1
  • Unbound Program Day 1
I did in the evening
  • Muscle Recovery Workout (did a workout with squats on Monday and I am still sore from that, then 90 Days had squats for today... Hoping to not have sore thighs forever.)
  • Footwork Workout (unforgiving tile)
Hope everyone has a good night!!
 
I'm doing an excellent job of keeping up with this log already lol. Yesterday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 2 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 2
  • Unbound Day 2
 
Alright, actually remembered this evening!! This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 3 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 3
  • Unbound Day 3
This evening I did
  • Perfect Balance Challenge Day 30 (realized I never actually finished this!!)
Was totally unsteady on this final balance challenge - had to reach out and tap my dresser to help once, BUT I did manage a full 30 seconds (per side!) in a pose I had assumed I was incapable of balancing myself in AT ALL at the beginning!! I assumed I'd have to drop out of the challenge at some point.
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 3 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 3
  • Unbound Day 3
This afternoon I went out to the pool and did
  • Chase at Level II in the pool
  • Swam back and forth for 4 minutes
I was aiming for more than 5 minutes, but the clouds that had been threatening for about half an hour at that point finally thundered, so I got out. I'm not a particularly strong swimmer, so I think it might be nice to get better!
 
Just realized I exposed my laziness yesterday by forgetting to change the day numbers when I copied the morning routine over lol. Didn't do much today - took a 2 hour nap late afternoon. Tomorrow I mean to be productive though! This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 5 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 5
  • Unbound Day 5
 
I did actually manage to be productive today!! Went grocery shopping, vacuumed & cleaned the bathroom, and actually did my cooking today - Monday is my usual day to cook prepackaged lunches for the week. Made a veggie quiche, w oven roasted tomato, sauteed rainbow chard, and frozen peas!!! My mom always did impossible quiche, I don't know what possessed me yesterday evening when I decided I was going to make pie crust from scratch (something I have never done before). At one point I stopped and literally said out loud, "Help me, Claire Saffitz." But it came out!! So it's that & a plum & blanched sugar snap peas for lunch this week.

This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 6 at Level III
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 6
  • Unbound Day 6
This evening I did
  • Chase Level II in the pool
  • Swam for 5 minutes
  • Post Cardio Cooldown Workout (outside the pool, otherwise I'd've drowned)
 
Participating in Connect250 with NPR, where they pair Americans up for recorded conversations to go into the Library of Congress as a snapshot of life in America at this time. Had a really good conversation today!! Highly recommend to any other Americans.

This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 7 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 7
  • Unbound Day 7
 
Whoops, missed a day of posts! Yesterday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 8 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 8
  • Unbound Day 8
Last afternoon I did
  • Chase Level II in the pool
  • Swam for 5 minutes
  • Limitless Workout for stretching
Could I do other workouts than Chase in the pool? Yes, but I like Chase and I have it memorized at this point, which is v convenient because I can't exactly take my phone in the pool to double-check the exercise order lol.
 
Cannot express how glad I was to see plank variations today. Yesterday had three different crunch variations and they sucked. Made my lower back hurt a little, although only during the exercise. I was fully prepared to wake up sore today and was pleasantly surprised not to. Plank variations, in contrast, are practically comforting having just finished up Back & Core. I didn't exactly love them at first either, so hopefully one day crunches will be an old friend I can approach with confidence.

This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 9 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 9
  • Unbound Day 9
This evening I did (yes, again haha, really vibing w the pool in this weather)
  • Chase Level II in the pool
  • Swam for 5 minutes (accidentally hit my head against the edge of the pool twice...)
  • The Finisher workout for stretching
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 10 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 10
  • Unbound Day 10
Today, 90 Days had me do a balance exercise, so I took that to mean this is an active rest day. I wasn't planning on swimming. But I was thinking about maybe doing another balance exercise or stretching routine in the evening. I've been working on writing something, so I decided to walk home today since that's always good for my writing brain. Normally, what I do is walk 10 minutes to the bus terminal then take a bus the rest of the way, which would be another 20 minute walk. It started lightly raining about 5 minutes in, but I wanted the walk for my writing brain, I left work a little later than usual and I would have had to wait at the terminal, and I had an umbrella and don't mind a little rain. So I walked past the terminal. This was a poor decision. Needless to say the rain did not stay light and also it was 82 degrees, so by the time I got home I was WARM and my shoes were WATERLOGGED and my right side had been SPLASHED by several cars and everywhere else was DAMP and I wanted a SNACK. So I am eating the remains of a fruit tray and have made the executive decision that all I'm doing for the rest of the day is writing, finishing reading my book (Death in the Haymarket, very good although I'm more sympathetic to the anarchists' cause than it is at several points), and playing some video games. So I'm going to go ahead and post now, rather than late evening like I usually do. Hope you all have a better day than me!!! :up:
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 11 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 11
  • Unbound Day 11
I felt like shit later in the day and for about an hour I was halfway convinced I was coming down with something. Now, I'm fairly certain I have no one to blame but myself, since I stayed up past midnight writing & editing and then did not drink nearly enough water today (and I think I might should expect my period soon). Attempting to put myself on the right track for tomorrow, so this evening I did
  • Burrito Mode workout (a light yoga program done entirely supine - hoping it'll help me sleep)
 
Yesterday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 12 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 12
  • Unbound Day 12
Despite a good start to yesterday I kinda fucked it up. Forgot to eat lunch, which I haven't done in over 5 months. I've got a habit tracker app with timed notifications for meals and all sorts of other stuff. I used to just never get hungry, which is how I forgot meals all the time. I usually ate either 2 meals or 1 meal and snacks. But since I've been eating 3 meals & even started making sure there's protein in breakfast, I've started actually getting hungry - it's been so great!!! Kinda disappointed in myself. I think this'll be isolated though. I was correct in last post's assumption, my period began this morning and it always obliterates my appetite. Started feeling kinda shitty last evening & forgot to update here, then was absolutely miserable when I woke up this morning. I always exercise right after getting up, but didn't today. Considered just skipping today, but later in the evening around 7 I was feeling ok, and once I actually got going I felt better! So this evening I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 13 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 13
  • Unbound Day 13
 
Woag, there's a new collection just for me (ADHD)!!! Feeling WAY better today. This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 14 and Level III (the challenge days get to me - I've got a competitive spirit haha. can't think of every day as a competition, it'd burn me out probably, but every once in a while is exciting!)
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 14
  • Unbound Day 14
Did about 2 hours of reading by the pool. Local library has a summer reading program for adults, and if I read outside for 30 hours in June & July they'll give me an enamel pin. It's been so hot and/or rainy I'd fallen behind. I've got about 7.5 hours to go now! Before bed I did
  • Better Sleep workout (see if it lives up to the name!)
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 15 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 15
  • Unbound Day 15
Today's Unbound involved a lot of leg stretches, specifically ones where you reach for your toes. I (as I always do) struggled with those. I've already done the Touch Your Toes Challenge and was deeply discouraged when I ended it still unable to touch my toes. But it was a New Year's goal, and today reminded me of it. I really really want to get there. So I think tomorrow I will start Touch Your Toes again

Thought about doing an evening yoga thing but it was over 90 degrees. I'm a big believer in the "open windows and get a cross breeze going" method of cooling (because electric bills...) but usually when it gets over 90, I close all windows in the morning right before it starts warming up & turn on the AC. I forgot to do that today so I got home after work and it was hot as hell. I know some people are into hot yoga or sweat yoga or whatever but no thank you!!
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 16 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 16
  • Touch Your Toes Challenge Day 1
  • Unbound Day 16
Miserable air quality here in Ohio!!! AQI currently 472. It wasn't that bad this morning, I hadn't checked the news before work and thought it was just fog, so I left the windows open as I do nearly all the time. By the time I got home AQI was about 250 and I shut them right up and turned on the AC to hopefully filter the air. I just have a wall unit, so I don't know how well it does at that. Just yesterday I heard in an NPR podcast about how excessive heat and air pollution can increase dementia risk, on top of all the other more obvious health effects. I really worry about the older folks in my life.

This evening I did
  • Minute On Minute Off Workout
On recommendation of the new ADHD collection!!! Honestly, picking up exercise has been so good for settling me. I used to be SUCH a pacer. Like no joke, I'd put a song on loop, and then look up and an hour had passed pacing my apt, which is not even 50 feet long. My pacing had already been reduced by other efforts to regulate my habits & reduce stress in my life, but since starting Darebee I don't pace at all.
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 17 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Challenge Day 17
  • Touch Your Toes Challenge Day 2
  • Unbound Day 17
AQI still sucks :( Supposed to rain tonight, hopefully that will help clear it up some so vendors won't skip the farmers market tomorrow. It's not as bad as last evening, dropped from 250 this afternoon to about 230 now. My BFF in Chicago had an AQI of over 600 for a while yesterday. Hope everyone is breathing easy!!!
 
No stupid convoluted explanation for why I didn't post yesterday this time lol, I just forgor 💀Yesterday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 18 at Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 18
  • Touch Your Toes Day 3
  • Unbound Day 18
In late afternoon I went out to the pool to do Chase & then swim. I always read for like at least half an hour by the pool before getting in, but I spent to long reading and a thunderstorm arrived :(

Today I did NOT get myself moving in time this morning, so it wasn't till early evening that I exercised. Since I didn't have to run off to work or church or the farmer's market or something I put on my swimsuit and INTENDED to do Chase & swim before Unbound, but when I got outside, the pool was padlocked!! For no apparent reason!! So I went back in and did unbound. Altogether, I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 19 (let me tell you, I was NOT excited about the endurance holds when I saw them yesterday. Raised arm hold I did all 2 minutes in one go, but the squat, elbow plank, and superman I did 60-30-30. I'm actually a little proud of myself - almost stopped the plank at 45 the first time but I decided to see if I could manage 60!)
  • Easy Arms Day 19
  • Touch Your Toes Day 19
  • Unbound Day 19
I am definitely closer than I was at the beginning of the year to touching my toes!! I'm like an inch or two away - so close!! Before bed I did
  • Better Sleep yoga workout
 
Had an eye exam this morning. Forgot about getting my eyes dilated and it threw off my entire afternoon. I'll have to go grocery shopping tomorrow. Plus I handed over my current frames to get new lenses, so I'm using pretty old one right now and my eyes hurt. Eye doctor told me that the only real change to my vision is that my astigmatism worsened, and it's probably due to computer/device use/reading. Told me to do 20/20/20. I think there's a challenge on that, so I might try it tomorrow... It sounds really annoying though.
Made onion soup today! 2 mostly full deli quarts, froze one. This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 20
  • Easy Arms Day 20
  • Touch Your Toes Day 5
  • Unbound Day 20

Alas the pool powers that be have still not deigned to let me swim. I got in my swimsuit & everything again and it was still locked... It's right outside my window, so you'd think I'd look before going out but I never remember.
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 21 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 21
  • Touch Your Toes Day 6
  • Unbound Day 21
Pool still closed :( Did some knitting early evening and then spent literally more than two hours hand writing a letter. Filled five 8.5x11 pages. I have not done that much hand writing in... maybe ever? Not in one go like that. So between computer use at work, then knitting, then writing, my right wrist feels not so great... Decided to finish the evening with
  • Wrist Pain workout
May have to do it throughout the day tomorrow, depending on how it feels. I remember my mom had so many issues with carpal tunnel when I was a kid and ended up having to get surgery for it. Might should pay more attention to my wrists lol. Might should pay more attention to a lot of things. I feel like Sisyphus w/regards to health sometimes...
 
This morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 22 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 22
  • Touch Your Toes Day 7
  • Unbound Day 22
Pool status unchanged... My wrist feels fine! Turns out what I should have been concerned about was my NECK after hunching over the paper. Three times throughout the day I did
  • Sore Neck workout
 
Okay, I think I am going to switch to instead posting what I did in the morning/afternoon the day after. I always wait because sometimes I get restless in the evening or do one of the yoga routines in the Before Bed collection, but then if I don't I forget. I suppose I could just post the morning stuff, and then add any later day things on the next post, but I don't like the idea of splitting a day across multiple posts. SO Thursday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 23 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 23
  • Touch Your Toes Day 8
  • Unbound Day 23
And then yesterday I felt not great. I didn't exercise in the morning like I usually do, and I told myself I'd do it after work except I did not. One of those days where I made myself get up to eat dinner and that was about it. It's annoying because instead of actually relaxing I'm feeling guilty about everything I'm not doing! Around 10:15 PM realized I was not going to make it happen and needed to make myself actually go to bed to get real rest, but if I had to break a nearly 3 month streak of sticking perfectly with a program, I REALLY didn't want to lose my exercise streak entirely so I did
  • Proprioception Workout (I think this one is fun)
  • Better Sleep Yoga Workout
Here in the next day it's easier to recognize that it's better than nothing!
 
Saturday morning I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 24 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 24
  • Touch Your Toes Day 9
  • Unbound Day 24
Then in the late afternoon I finally did
  • Chase Level II in the pool
  • Limitless stretching workout
Been weeks since when I have time & when the pool was open aligned! Did not do five minutes of swimming like I usually did because it was SO cold. The top part of the water was sun-warmed, but it did not go all the way down. Sunday I had a late morning & then church & then got boba & chatted with a friend for several hours, so late afternoon I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 25
  • Easy Arms Day 25
  • Touch Your Toes Day 10
  • Unbound Day 25
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 26
  • Easy Arms Day 26
  • Touch Your Toes Day 11
  • Unbound Day 26
I'm getting close to finishing Easy Arms! (and Unbound but I'll just restart it lol) I searched the forum & found a post where someone else was asking about working up to push ups and someone shared a PDF about it. I can actually do more that 10 wall push ups easily, so I'm going to do incline push ups instead. There's a wall push up and knee push up challenge but no incline push up challenge, so I'm just going to adapt the wall push up challenge but do incline push ups. That way the knee push up challenge is waiting for me haha.
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 27 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 27
  • Touch Your Toes Day 12
  • Unbound Day 27
Went to the pool again in the afternoon and did
  • Chase Level II in the pool
  • Swim for 5 minutes
  • The Finisher workout for stretching
Going to turn my summer reading challenge in today! In addition to the usual "read x minutes a day for x number of days in x timeframe" they had an additional challenge to spend 30 hours outside. BUT since it was on the back of the reading challenge page I assumed it was specifically a reading thing. Only realized when I had just a couple hours left lol. So I actually technically finished it a long while ago, but I decided that since what I committed to was reading outside and that IS in the bounds of the challenge, that was what I was going to do! Did a lot of it next to the pool. Now I get to find out if enamel pin supplies lasted!
 
Wednesday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 28 Level II
  • Easy Arms Day 28
  • Touch Your Toes Day 13
  • Unbound Day 28
Thursday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 29 Level I
  • Easy Arms Day 29
  • Touch Your Toes Day 14
  • Unbound Day 29
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 30
  • Easy Arms Day 30 DONE :D
  • Touch Your Toes Day 15
  • Unbound Day 30 also done but this is the second time I've done it and I'm just starting it again lol
I don't know WHAT is up with me, I am having major trouble getting up and going in the morning lately. I did all three of these in the evening instead of morning. Also only did level 1 on Thursday because my thighs were already sore from squats on Wednesday and Thursday had squats AGAIN. I hope one day I can do squats without guaranteed soreness the next day or two lol.
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 31
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 1
  • Touch Your Toes Day 16
  • Unbound Day 1
I was sooo worried about the reverse lunges yesterday, that it'd prolong the leg soreness. But the push ups! The push ups! I should have been worried about the push ups! My arms are sore today haha. I was debating about whether I should use my dresser or my blanket chest as the incline - SO glad I went with the dresser. I'm headed to a weeklong retreat/workshop/seminar thing this evening. I really hope that I can keep up my morning exercising. This event has a earlier start time than I'm used to so I'll have to set my alarm earlier. We'll see how it goes.....
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 32
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 2
  • Touch Your Toes Day 17
  • Unbound Day 2
Got to my event for the week and was IMMEDIATELY fed an allergen lol. They forgot to label the pork as having been cooked with peaches (weird allergy I know, my mom & great grandmother had it although it skipped my grandmother. Matrilineal allergy lol). Fortunately they caught me and let me know before I'd taken more than a bite, I didn't eat the peaches directly just the pork cooked in it, and it's just a hives level allergy not EpiPen, so I took two Benadryl. Had some spots pop up by my right elbow but they were gone by this morning!
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 33 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 3
  • Touch Your Toes Day 18
  • Unbound Day 3
The pushups are way harder than I thought they'd be, my arms have been consistently sore since I woke up after day 1. I normally do Level II on my program (I kinda feel like 5 sets is the right amount. I feel the first two, the third starts to feel repetitive and annoying, the fourth I want to be done, and the fifth I power through because it's the last one.) but I think I'll drop down to Level I while I'm struggling with the push ups.
 
Yesterday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 34 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 4
  • Touch Your Toes Day 19
  • Unbound Day 4
Oh my god I hope the push ups become less of a slog eventually
 
Very repetitive since I skipped posting several days and didn't have the energy to do more than my daily commitment lol. Wednesday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 35 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 5
  • Touch Your Toes Day 20
  • Unbound Day 5
Thursday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 36 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 6
  • Touch Your Toes Day 21
  • Unbound Day 6
Friday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 37 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 7
  • Touch Your Toes Day 22
  • Unbound Day 7
Saturday I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 38 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 8
  • Touch Your Toes Day 23
  • Unbound Day 8
Today I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 39 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 9
  • Touch Your Toes Day 24
  • Unbound Day 9
CRAZY week. I did not think I would be this exhausted! For several years I embodied every stereotype of the unsocialized homeschooler, but for the most part I got over my intense social anxiety. Used to be very shy and quiet but now I'm quite outgoing! But this past week I've realized that as much as I love people and am energetic in social situations, I live alone, have a job with one (1) coworker who has a separate office and works slightly different hours, and go to 3 or 4 social events a week that last only a couple hours each. Going from that, to spending 10-12 hours a day in participatory seminars, small groups, and eating meals together with a group of 50 people for 5 days has left me DRAINED. I enjoyed it! But it's been 2 days since I got home and I am still tired. Perhaps the "extrovert" part of my thread title isn't wholly accurate!

On a more exciting note, I touched my toes today!!!! I couldn't hold it for long, and I probably can't do it consistently, BUT I did do it! And I'm sure if I keep exercising I'll get even better!
 
...Whoopsie. Long time no see! Inventing a new abbreviated form:

Aug 10-14
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 40-44 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 10-14
  • Touch Your Toes Day 25-29
  • Unbound Day 10-14
Yesterday I felt not good, so I just did the Insomnia Yoga Workout before bed. I guess I also did a bunch of walking to & from the farmer's market & coffee shop & the library & and errand, about an hour, hour and a half's worth? But that's like a regular Saturday for me. I always fuck around the farmer's market & downtown late morning/early afternoon. Today I didn't feel better lol, but I did not want to skip two days in a row. Also I really want to finish 90 Days on Sept 30!! That way I can start my next program Oct 1. So I can't really skip a day again at all, for the next half of the program. I really need to get up promptly in the morning... So today late late evening I did
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 45 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 15
  • Touch Your Toes Day 30 - I can check this one off the list!
  • Unbound Day 15
I think I might take up the Get to Bed On Time Challenge, with an additional self created Get Out of Bed On Time Challenge. I'll shoot for lights out by 10:30, out of bed by 7:05. Which I will start tomorrow because it's nearly midnight.:crawl:
 
Yesterday I did
  • Got out of bed at 7:04! Granted I did lay on the floor for a bit after that but sometimes you gotta adhere to just the letter of the law for a bit before you get the spirit.
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 46 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 16
  • Unbound Day 16
  • Lights out at 10:29 and I didn't fuck around on my phone after
Sometimes I wish living healthily didn't actually make me feel better, you know? It'd be so much easier, if I felt bad either way, then there wouldn't be a reason to do all the hard stuff. Probably reducing screentime would be the next thing I tackle on the healthy living front... I average around 7-8 hours a day.....
 
Yesterday I did
  • Got out of bed at 7:02
  • Universal Warmup
  • 90 Days of Action Day 47 Level I
  • Wall Push Up Challenge (but I'm doing incline push ups) Day 17
  • Unbound Day 17
  • The new Fitness Test
  • Lights out at 11:09...
Did I procrastinate on cooking for my lunches until 9:15 last night? Yes. Did I throw out my plan to make a simple sweet potato and rainbow chard stir fry in favor of making sweet potato gnocchi? Also yes. Had I ever made gnocchi before? No. Did I have the parmesan cheese the recipe calls for? Also no. Did I have the potato ricer or "gnocchi board" the recipe directed me to use? ...No. Did I decide to make a triple batch of it anyways? Listen. At least partway through the process, I texted my best friend to joke about my ugly gnocchi and she told me to roll them against the tines of a fork and they stopped looking like malformed chicken nuggets and more like gnocchi!
 
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