Carrying on from all these plans I made last August…

I did pretty much stick to that schedule, except I never did start doing the “machine routine”. Still, going to the gym five days a week to do either yoga or pilates and then half an hour on The Bike is a pretty good fitness regimen. But after the new year things started to go askew when my pilates instructor, José Carlos, went off to work at a specialised pilates place and then some time after that (April?) my yoga instructor Ana was hit by a truck while riding her bicycle and ended up with her ankle totally wrecked. And well, I knew that after trying just two pilates classes with the new instructor that she was crap and it wasn’t worth my while going, which meant I stopped going to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But I stuck it out with the new yoga instructor even though I didn’t enjoy her classes because I kept expecting Ana to come back, which I found out isn’t going to happen until September.

Then about a week or so ago (perhaps due to the fingernails?) I decided that I didn’t need a crap yoga class to get me to the gym and that I should become more pro-active about my fitness routine. And so, I have now become a gym rat. I’m all over that place! First I start off with some yoga/pilates mat work and free weights for half an hour, then I do a half hour on the dreaded bike, and this week I am adding another half hour upstairs in the weight room (Manu gave me two machine routines last Friday and showed me what to do).

I reckon I’ll go back to the Mon-Wed-Fri yoga classes when Ana comes back in September, and do my new routine Tues-Thurs-Sat, just to mix things up a bit. Also, I do really enjoy Ana’s classes and feel good after them. But the rest of the summer I’ll be working out on my own. Go me!