My Journey With Health And Fitness – Back To Normal

Game 5 of the Vancouver Canucks in the current round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and it appears my husband is fully on the bandwagon. Today he is wearing his Canucks’ jersey (I have no idea where he got that) and that is pretty impressive given the fact it is over 30 degrees in our condo right now. We likely won’t watch the game tonight because it doesn’t start until 9pm Playa time and quite frankly staying up late is no longer something we like to do. Instead when I get up at 5am tomorrow I will check the internet to get the results.

Since last Saturday our condo has been in absolute chaos as much of the tiles in the living area had to come up so a new subfloor could be put in. It was a far more complicated job than we had anticipated. First the tiles had to be carefully removed (if any broke we would have to buy all new ones because we wouldn’t be able to but the same ones again) then the old subfloor jackhammered away. Once that was done the tiles had to be reinstalled and then grouted. As a final step what we thought would be touch up painting done on a wall where plaster had been removed became plaster being replaced then the full wall being painted (because they used the wrong ‘white’ paint). Finally after the 5th day of work everything was completed so we got our condo back to normal (still working on removing all of the construction dust).

During those 5 days my routine got seriously messed up. I had been doing a 5km walk every weekday morning followed by an online fitness class (weekends the classes start too late so I just do walks). With the fact that our condo was a construction zone I wasn’t able to do my class Monday through Wednesday this week so I opted for 10km walks each morning. I do have to say I much prefer doing long walks at home as the scenery here gets a bit boring. But this morning I was back at it and I admit I realized how much I have missed doing full body workouts. There was a few technical glitches getting logged on but the trainer got me up to speed pretty quickly.

This was the 1st time since we got here that I have done the Thursday Power Hour class and I loved how brutal it was. The trainer had posted the other day on FB that she was trying to figure out how to do a combination of Thunderstruck (every time they say thunder in the song you do a burpee and do fast feet in place in between) and Bring Sally Up (you do a squat pulse and when they sing Bring Sally Up you stand up then go back down into the pulse). Unfortunately for those of us in today’s class she had worked it out. So, on comes the song Tubthumping and every time they say ‘I get knocked down’ we had to do a burpee with fast feet in between. When it got to the slow parts of the song we had to do the squat pulse. I never realized exactly how long that song was but I am pretty sure it went on for 10 minutes (ok, I know it didn’t). But at the end, feeling a huge sense of accomplishment, I thought yep, back to normal being pushed to the limit.

I also realized today out on my walk that my ankle didn’t even twinge. And so tomorrow, despite the fact that at 6am it will already by 30 degrees, I am going to try for a run. If I pull that off then everything is back to normal again.