I updated my morning exercise routine over the last couple of months bringing together the two sets of exercises and doing them first thing on awaking. Working very well and amounts to 1 hour of exercise around 400 to 450 calories with a cardio load of 45 to 50. It was my daughter who inspired me actually to take on some exercises I never considered or even thought about. So it is 23 stages in total and the first nine stages are waking up and stretching and then a couple of YOGA type exercises and then I get up and touch my toes 30 times and at that point I add in 200 steps after each exercise set. I was having trouble with my shoulder aching which I just always attribute to my arthritis but she suggested that I might not be working the shoulder enough. There you go so I added in my exercises from the period when I was in physio after I tore my rotator cap. So another four sets of exercises which follow a walk of 200 steps and are ended by a walk of 200 steps. Then Reverse Warrior count of 30 on each side, a 200 step walk, then 40 squats, a 200 step walk and on to the Pose of Tranquility for two minutes and a 200 step walk. Then a new one that she had found is to sweep one foot in a circular motion forward and then back with the other foot firmly on the floor. This took a bit to accomplish but I discovered that when I really got the hang of it and doing it 30 times each way on each leg I didn't fall down skiing anymore. So a real bonus there. Then the 200 steps and I balance first on one foot and then on the other for 60 seconds and follow that with 200 steps. Then into the full plank for 1 and one half minutes followed by 200 steps and then a full squat as far down as I can go and hold it for 60 seconds with hands upward praying above your head but in front to keep the back straight (I think that is another yoga pose actually). That one is really hard and it took a while to get up to 60 seconds. Then walk 200 steps and do 100 jumping jacks followed by a 200 step walk. So that combined all of my exercises from the two sessions into one and then I have a snack and sit in front of the computer and write my blog, drink my tea and do my solitaire puzzles to exercise the brain. I do not recommend this all at once. It has taken me three months to combine my two sets of exercises and to add in the new exercises. I am very physically fit for sure but I always start small and work my way up that way you will not injure yourself. Consulting a doctor is always a good plan if you do not do regular exercise.
My new FitBit is in tune with me now and I am happy with it. Has some new bells and whistles so to speak and a learning curve. The old FitBit was actually four years old and did very well. I have used a FitBit now for ten years I think although would have to check that. These ten years have been very different for me.
I accomplished nothing on the Newsletters yesterday but had a good day working on the matches. I must do the Newsletters they are past due now. I am up to the M's (first name) now in the matches and I have been busy collecting the Relatives in common for quite a few of the samples. AI will do a good job of creating a useful table for me to work with these matches. There are about 50 matches left to do or perhaps less I did not count them just estimated. There are still nine cousins known to me not yet added to the chart so that may affect some of the unknown matches with regard to solving the great grandparent.
Just minus 10 degrees celsius today but another polar vortex is headed our way so February will be cold for a bit but the gradual movement upward to spring and heavier snows is likely coming our way. We will see. All of this snow is a good thing to fill up the reservoirs, the creeks, the rivers and the lakes. The run off will be horrific though if it is sudden so hoping for gradual and slow run off.
Cleaning Day three and it is the top floor. Although I would very much like to move to a smaller house I do not see that happening in the near future. We have been here for nearly fifty years now; in the early spring it will be fourty eight years exactly. The first set of houses was all that was here when we came and you could see the Ottawa River from our upstairs windows. Neighbours have come and gone through the years and when I went back to work outside the home (I proofread and copyedited for about fifteen years at home) in 1994 that was really the last time that I knew the neighbours beyond the houses beside me (although I do have this sort of occasional wave at neighbours as many of them are the same people) as I went off to work early and came home late and all my time went to my children and husband. Working away from home was great; I needed the change for my mental health for sure and I gradually slipped away from any and all volunteer activities. There just wasn't time although my husband regularly volunteered me to do items in his volunteer work. But now all that time is devoted to writing these books and keeping up my newsletters.
Tea being drank and must do the solitaire puzzles. On to the day.
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