I’ve had a difficult week as I started a bladder infection, which I thought was better, it came back with a vengeance and I had to go to the doctor’s last Friday. So I’m a bit late in posting. I started a new morning programme with strength exercise from SparkPeople and rather like that it [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Pedometer’
August 9, 2010
Claude – resuming exercise week
Well, it’s been somewhat difficult, this week, with ups and downs especially in motivation. I have been exploring the incredibly richness of SparkPeople in terms of suggestions for exercise and will try to adapt some of them to my way of life. Thank you Sara, for mentioning it to me. I have also noticed that [...]
July 19, 2010
Claude – Wales! Here we come
With my friend Catherine, we’re driving to Zeebrugge, with a lunch stop at Bruges, with a walk around the city. Then Hull the next morning, and final destination, Chester, which is not in Wales, but very conveniently situated to drive to different destinations in Northern Wales. It was rather a good week, exercisewise, as the [...]
July 12, 2010
Claude – another hot week
Except for Tuesday, all week was steaming hot. Not my favourite weather at all. I know, I’m always complaining about the weather, too hot, too cold, too rainy, too snowy… And we do have to adjust, don’t we? One of the things that comforts me is the fact that although I still don’t like heat [...]
July 11, 2010
Tips and tricks – why use a pedometer?
At one point here, I think it was Lia who said that a healthy walking average was something around 5,000 steps a day. I had heard from my doctor that 5,000 steps just meant you weren’t sick in bed At my hospital workshop, they prone the pedometer versus time spent walking, as counting steps seems [...]
July 5, 2010
Claude – two hot exercise weeks
I have been too busy, too lazy and probably too hot to post the week before last. My good friends from Norwich were here for a week and their stay started with a very cold day (12°c) to go on with the beginning of a heat wave that lasted until yesterday. I must say that [...]
June 21, 2010
Claude – elliptically yours
It’s been a chilly week over here, but somehow it makes exercising easier. AND last Tuesday, my brand new elliptical crosstrainer got delivered at 11h30 and mind you, at twelve, I was pedalling and moving my arms. I must say that since I’ve received it, it has been used every day, and I love it. [...]
June 14, 2010
Claude – a rather good week
Finally, I decided against going to a gym. The three I visited were either tremendously expensive or awful-looking. So last Monday, I decided that an elliptical machine would be the thing, took a loan and bought one. It’s not here yet, it will arrive tomorrow morning. Before buying, they let me use it for some [...]
May 31, 2010
Claude – good exercise week
This was really a good week especially walking and cardio exercise. I just bought myself two 1kg weights to replace the half kg weights for my arms reinforcement as trying to deal with one-litre bottles was just sort of difficult. For some reason, I really walked quite a lot this week with two days exceeding [...]
May 24, 2010
Claude – from very cold to very hot
We’ve had really huge temperature variations. At the beginning of the week, it was raining and awfully cold and yesterday, I decided to get my fans out as it’s really getting hot. I am finding it more and more difficult to reach my optimal heartrate when walking briskly. It used to be difficult to keep [...]
