If any of you are reading this and would like a bit of a challenge then I suggest you put down your mouse and lie on the floor as you would if you were doing stomach crunches. Instead of bending your legs stretch them out together without letting them hit the floor. Squeeze your stomach muscles, your butt muscles (they are in there somewhere) and proceed to write the alphabet tracing the outline of the letters with your legs. If you are unable to get down on the floor perhaps you could try doing this exercise sitting on a chair holding on to the side of it so you are able to lift your legs off the ground!
Try to get through the alphabet as far as you can and repeat this exercise twice. Then while still lying on the floor ask a family member to stand at the end of you and move around a ball (or a cushion off the lounge) and follow them with your outstretched hands while doing crunches. Do this twice also…
Then in a couple days time sneeze and see how much it hurts! That is what I did on Monday as part of my program and today I really felt it when I sneezed!
Yep that’s right! Yesterday was the start of my newly written program (by Latoya) the loveliest trainer I have ever met ( I am only being nice in case she reads this)… When we discussed what to put in my new program I specifically said that I wanted a variety and wanted to be constantly moving. The idea of lying there lifting a bunch of heavy weights and then waiting did not appeal to me and makes me lose interest. Basically I want and need to be constantly entertained… Anyway my program is quite fun (if exercise can be that)! I have done two days of it now and my body is starting to hurt all over again. This is because a) I haven’t exercised “properly” in a while and b) because I am doing some exercises that I have not done before.
I continued with my physio yesterday and only wish that I could find all of my receipts for my private health insurance. Looks like it will be another clean out the car day again on Saturday.
Work is flat out, uni is crazy, getting up at 4:30am is just like the old days but if I didn’t have a million things going on at once I would go crazy!
Let me know how your Alphabet tracing goes. I hope it hurts – in the nicest possible way of course.
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Shell,
no doubt within a few days you can spell out abusive words to describe what a cruel exercise it is. I hope it will get easier each time you do it and remind you less of how we use our abdominal muscles for all sorts of things without even realising it.
Keep up the good work
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