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more workouts

25 Friday Aug 2023

Posted by azahar in health, health & happiness, pilates, yoga

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cardio, fitness, pilates, yoga

more workouts

Since I started doing chair yoga and chair pilates I have since discovered a whole whack of different workout vids by this woman. They vary from quick 10-minute stretch/strength videos to 35-minute cardio ones and there’s lots of variety. The good thing is that there is never any excuse not to do SOMETHING each day, though I try to fit in at least half an hour, and obviously you can mix and match them. Some of them are quite challenging and, as you can see, I am also getting out of my chair (!). The whole point of starting with the chair stuff was to avoid having to sit or lie on the floor (knees! back!), so the standing ones work just as well for me. My goal is to also start fitting in some of the shorter ones (that don’t make me all sweaty) during the day, just for a bit of extra movement. Have to say that my back, and even my knees, are feeling much better.

chair pilates

21 Wednesday Jun 2023

Posted by azahar in health, health & happiness, pilates, yoga

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chair pilates, health

chair pilates

Omg so guess what? There are also Chair Pilates vids out there. I was so excited when I first discovered Chair Yoga last week, and have faithfully been doing one routine a day. But I’ve also been mixing it up with other chair workout options. They are usually 30 minutes and I can choose which one fits in best with whatever else is going on in my morning. And I’m really loving it. Couldn’t be more convenient, in front of my laptop, in my house PJs, getting in a light workout before I start my day. Still early days but I have noticed I am sleeping better, perhaps because I am breathing better? Anyhow, yay me!

chair yoga

12 Monday Jun 2023

Posted by azahar in health, health & happiness, sevilla, yoga

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chair yoga, health, sevilla

Today I tried chair yoga for the first time and I think I like it! I’ve had it on my mind to do this for a while, it was just a question of … DOING IT. Then this morning I had nothing else planned and a bit of free time before going out for a walk so I had a look online and this was the first one that came up. It’s about 20 minutes, very slow and gentle, but it kind of perked me up and now I am going to look for more. Afterwards I even did a round of my short routine with weights (arms & legs) and wow, felt great.

So far I like this woman, she’s pleasant and encouraging. But if you know of any others I should try just let me know. Variety is the spice of life!

on sleeping…

11 Tuesday May 2010

Posted by azahar in fitness, health & happiness, home, yoga

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health, sleep

Touching once again on two recurring themes here … sleep and weight loss. Very embarrassed to say that my grand plan to start over and follow a low carb/low cal diet didn’t last long. It’s so frustrating when I look back to that post (February 1st) and realise if I’d stuck to it I’d probably be about 20 kilos lighter by now. Anyhow, I’ve come to realise that this whole health & fitness thing is like a tangled ball of wool for me and I keep pulling on the wrong loose ends to try and straighten it out, and it just gets more tangled. If that makes any sense. Which I know is going to sound like excuse making to some of you, but for me it’s a very true thing. And so, I am now focusing on the sleep thing again. Because a well-rested az is a happy az. And a happy az tends to want and like to do things that are good for her. To wit…

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clean

13 Wednesday Jan 2010

Posted by azahar in cancer, change, friends, hope, hospitals, yoga

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cancer, hospital, pet scan

This is very true…
But a clean PET scan is the best birthday present ever!

I have to admit that I’m still processing all this. As many of you know, I was pretty tied up in knots about this latest PET scan (my fourth). Partly due to the timing … my recurrence last March happened six months after finishing chemo, and this was also six months since I finished chemo for the second time in July. And partly because for the past few weeks I’ve been experiencing some pretty bad abdominal pain. I was half-convinced the cancer was back, and started beating myself up for not doing the whole “anti-cancer” antioxidant diet, for not losing weight and getting super-fit, for not … being perfect? I dunno. I just felt I could have done better and was sure I was now going to be “punished” for not having done so (those sicko Catholic upbringings take a lot of getting over). Anyhow, I was a mess. And so, when I hadn’t heard from the hospital about my PET scan appointment last week I started pestering The Team…

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