I'm going to post these exercise logs at random for a bit- doing so once a month has been laborious, so they'll be more frequent and shorter.
I get an A+ for this past week!
Last week I bounced back from a summer of no exercise to a week with three, 5-mile bike rides (pulling approx 40-60 lbs of kids and gear) and 15 hours of tai chi! That's right. Fifteen in one week.
Of course, this week, I've done nothing, but I have a huge, unpleasant excuse: a massive wildfire next to town has made the air rather nasty, and I haven't wanted to try to ride the bike nor subject my kids to playing outside in that crud, so we've kept busy inside mostly. I'll go to tai chi for 2 hours Sunday, if the smoke isn't too bad, and that's it. Meh.
I hope the fire goes away soon, and nobody else loses there home. So far, 170 houses have been lost, and the winds tonight are 50 mph. Not good.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
My lameness is not my imagination
Ahhh, a week with 3 nights of improved sleep! What a difference!
There are studies- I shall try to find them and site them for reference- showing that your strength declines in relation to the quantity of sleep you lose over time. I experience this firsthand. For the past few months, my children became heavier and heavier, the small kitchen appliances heavy and unwieldy (I'm talking the BLENDER, folks!) and I became unable to exert myself for simple hikes or bike rides.
Then, I got me some sleep! Only a few nights in a row of 1 REM cycle a night, and suddenly my children weren't heavy any more, the appliances were laughably easy to lift, and this week I managed 3 bike rides of just under an hour, pulling between 35 and 65 pounds in a kiddy trailer behind me. I credit this to sleep!
Why? Why not credit eating better (new energy to actually cook due to sleep, too)? Well, because the last two nights, I got NO sleep (two, 2-hour naps and lots of laying there, wishing the baby would settle down) and this morning, I could barely life the little guy out of the highchair again. *sigh*
And so it goes.
Po tee weet
There are studies- I shall try to find them and site them for reference- showing that your strength declines in relation to the quantity of sleep you lose over time. I experience this firsthand. For the past few months, my children became heavier and heavier, the small kitchen appliances heavy and unwieldy (I'm talking the BLENDER, folks!) and I became unable to exert myself for simple hikes or bike rides.
Then, I got me some sleep! Only a few nights in a row of 1 REM cycle a night, and suddenly my children weren't heavy any more, the appliances were laughably easy to lift, and this week I managed 3 bike rides of just under an hour, pulling between 35 and 65 pounds in a kiddy trailer behind me. I credit this to sleep!
Why? Why not credit eating better (new energy to actually cook due to sleep, too)? Well, because the last two nights, I got NO sleep (two, 2-hour naps and lots of laying there, wishing the baby would settle down) and this morning, I could barely life the little guy out of the highchair again. *sigh*
And so it goes.
Po tee weet
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