CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
EXERCISE/FITNESS PROGRAM LANDMARK
I promise not to journal my spring exercise/fitness progress too often—it can get boring to both the reader and the participant. However, on May 26 I hit a landmark. However, if you want to read the first post on my new fitness program, click on Spring has sprung…with yard work and fitness workouts
Two days off—Sunday the Ligonier YMCA is closed, and Monday was Memorial Day, another closed day.
Tuesday it was bright and beautiful, and I relished not going. But go I must. However, I lazily enjoyed my morning coffee and breakfast on the porch, reading parts of two books: The Hanging of Ephraim Walker 1806 and Walker’s Point (on the west coast, not the Maine coast summer place belonging to the former president). I didn’t leave the house until after ten o’clock.
In the fitness room, I used the (more…)
Fitness Program Update: Week 4
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CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
FITNESS PROGRAM UPDATE:
WEEK 4
I am sharing my personal fitness attempts with my loyal readers. To read previous segments, click on: Spring has sprung…with yard work and fitness workouts & Exercise/Fitness Program Landmark
Two days, during the first week in June, I swam a mile. And two days I swam three-quarters of a mile. (to view photos, click on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyncholland/3612835506/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyncholland/3612835176/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyncholland/3612834718/in/photostream/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyncholland/3612019637/in/photostream/ )
On Thursday, May 28, I also did a fifteen-minute mile on the treadmill, spent six minutes on the elliptical machine, and did an incomplete regimen on the fitness machines. I did not take a nap that afternoon.
Exercise is supposed to make you sleep. Right? Then why, that night, when I was so very tired that I went to bed at ten o’clock, was I still awake at three a.m.? I only slept (more…)