Get Fit Log #8

Happy Mother’s Day! (I will be Skyping my mum this afternoon, yay!) Apologies for the lack of posts this week: it has been the busiest week yet as the show starts to really come together. And this week is going to be even busier as we open a week on Tuesday. I am absolutely loving it though: I’m getting to do what I love in a great show with some truly wonderful people. Life is pretty good right now! So in terms of keeping fit, I’ve been pretty good at keeping up the gentle exercise but not so much the stretching and cardio stuff. I’m not worried though, as his show works me out better than probably anything I could do myself! I might start posting these logs every 2 weeks now as it’ll be getting pretty boring for everyone to just read log after log when I don’t have time to write other posts in between! :)

Sunday

Activity: 10-minute workout

Stretched: Yes

Monday

Activity: Walked 2.7 miles

Stretched: Yes

Tuesday

Activity: Walked 3.1 miles

Stretched: No

Wednesday

Activity: Walked 3.2 miles

Stretched: No

Thursday

Activity: Walked 2.8 miles

Stretched: No

Friday

Activity: Full-day dance rehearsal and walked 3 miles

Stretched: Yes

Saturday

Day off.

Hope you’ve all had a great week!

Wendy x

Get Fit Log #7

Another busy week for me, but I’m fairly happy with my efforts! I only went for a mixed run/walk once, but I’ve been finding that my shins have started to hurt a bit during and afterwards. My friend Lucia (a.k.a. Twinny) mentioned Shin Splints to me yesterday so I’ve just researched it and I am certain I have the beginnings of shin splints. So I think I’m going to try and swap the running for another cardio exercise until I get new (i.e. the correct) trainers and have a soft surface to train on. (I got these tips from NHS Online.) I may have to join a gym after all, but at least if I’m paying for it that should make me keep it up more regularly?! Hmmm, will need to have a think about it. Until then, I think I might try and turn my stretching into proper yoga sessions. (I know there will be tonnes of tutorials on YouTube I can follow!) So the format of my Get Fit Log will probably change from now on.

Sunday

Activity: Walked 2 miles

Stretched: Yes

Monday

Activity: Ran/Walked for 11.5 minutes and walked 2.8 miles later on

Stretched: Yes

Tuesday

Activity: Walked 2.6 miles

Stretched: Yes

Wednesday

Activity: Walked 1.7 miles (not bad considering I was on a 12-hour shoot most of the day!)

Stretched: No

Thursday

Activity: Walked 2.5 miles

Stretched: No

Friday

Activity: Walked 2.8 miles

Stretched: No

Saturday

Day off.

I hope you’ve all had an active and happy week! :)

Wendy x

My ‘Twinny’ Necklace

*Cue mushiness*

Real best friends are like family: no matter how often you speak to them or see them, things never change and when you do see or speak to them, it’s like you only just saw them yesterday and you pick up from where you left off. That’s how it feels for me with my bestie, Lucia. Even though we’re 2 years apart in age, we call each other our ‘Twinny’ as we’re so similar. (I’ve written about Lucia in this post from ages ago if you want to know more.) I got a set of ‘Twinny’ necklaces made and gave one to Lucia for Christmas, a bit like a grown-up version of those ‘Best Friends’ matching necklaces that everyone had at school! The necklaces are sturdy silver chains each with 3 sterling silver polished textured charms, all of which I chose personally. You can see that one charm has engraved a heart, one charm has an initial and the large charm in the middle has ‘Twinny’. (I'm not going to mention where I got them from or how much they were as I know Lucia reads my blog, but if you really want to know, you can ask me on twitter!) I wear this necklace almost every day and it reminds me that, far or near, my best friend is never really too far away.

Sorry for such a mushy post: you know when you just randomly get overwhelmed by how much you appreciate someone and just have to share it?! (Love you Twinster xx)

Wendy x

Get Fit Log #6

I’ve been busy with rehearsals and learning music for most of this week, so I’ve really had to push myself to do any kind of activity and stretching, but with that considered, I think I haven’t done too badly! When I have been out for run, I’ve really tried to push myself, so I think that as long as I can make each run really count – even if they are few and far between – that should be fine.

Sunday

Activity: Walked 1 mile (not great!)

Stretched: No

Monday

Activity: Walked/Ran for 8 minutes

Stretched: Yes

Tuesday

Activity: Walked 3 miles

Stretched: Yes (for a whole hour!)

Wednesday

Activity: Walked 4 miles

Stretched: No

Thursday

Activity: Walked 1.5 miles

Stretched: No

Friday

Activity: Walked 3 miles

Stretched: No

Saturday

Activity: Walked/Ran for 12 minutes!! (Including putting out the rubbish, so probably closer to 11 minutes)

Stretched: Yes

In general, I'm happy and pretty proud of the place I'm currently at. :)

Wendy x