Category: Health & Fitness
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Choose-Day
Since my weekends have become, well, not mine but rather an air BnB establishment with an Uber side hustle for the kids, I’ve been bunking my weekend gym classes. Throw in a month of work travel, reduced Pilates hours, freezing weather, a self-confessed recent repeat snooze offender, and a forgotten password for Impala Ridge Farm’s…
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Some of the gear & some idea
There are two ways to approach hobbies in life. All the gear, no idea You get the the “All the gear, no idea” types. The ones who gear up with latest and greatest paraphernalia for the next new hobby. The new clubs, the glove, the shoes, the cap, before even setting foot on a golf…
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Pride, pain & pulled muscles
My body is in pain. From my 2nd toe on my right foot which I “sprained?” well over a month ago falling off Ava’s headboard (long story) to my neck, shoulders, hips, legs, arms, tummy, chest, hands back… everywhere. A mom I met at Aiden’s Gymnastics class had just broken her toe – the same…
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Reflection
I took this photo the other morning in a rush, between getting back from the gym and changing for work. I hadn’t been having great workout sessions of late, and I thought it was perhaps because I didn’t have a goal in place. That morning I focussed on core work, and when I got home…
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Letting go of a dream
Almost exactly a year ago, I achieved my Pilates Mat qualification. It was an intense course, both physically and mentally. It was early morning study sessions and or practicing the exercises to perfection. It was spending all my morning gym time dedicated to finding a little quite corner, or an empty studio (yay) to practice,…
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#FitFriends
Fitness for me is not a fad. It is for survival. I have tried life without it, and life with it, and I can unanimously confirm that I function better as a human being when I exercise. Kids, if you don’t want Mom to stomp around the house yelling like a two-headed dragon, breathing fire…
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