12-25-09, 10:42 PM | ||
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I don't do new year's resolutions, but I do birthday promises. I have a December birthday and I make promises to take care of myself. My promise this year is I will get up no matter how little sleep I have had. I feel crappy when I don't sleep, so I can't imagine I would feel even crappier by working out when I am not sleeping anyway. I have "discovered" barre and I have found that I can do that with little sleep. No jumping around, no worrying that I will misstep off the step or clunk myself in the head with a weight. I can usually fall asleep but will wake up around 4:00. Now I have decided to just get up. I did it for years; I can do it again. 4:00 is **only** an hour earlier than I used to regularly get up. I have even put my workout clothes in the basement so I can just go down there and dress and do it. Of course, the plan is to start this tomorrow. We will see how it goes.
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12-26-09, 09:38 AM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: MiddletownCT
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Renda - that's exactly why I do P57 when I wake up so early and can't go back to sleep!! Because I can do it in my PJs, I can do it half asleep because I know it so well, but still get a good workout, no jumping, no worries about dropping a weight or falling off a step! It is perfect for those stupid mornings. Of course I'd rather be asleep, but if I can't be, might as well do something productive.
Barb
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12-26-09, 01:41 PM | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Atlanta-ish
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Yep, Barb, that's exactly it. I do Kathy Smith's Lift Your Body. My first (of many, I hope) barre workout. My basement is built in, but it has an 18-foot sliding glass door circa 1960 and let's just say it can get a bit cool down there. So it is like being thawed out from the night's (lack of) sleep and gradually warming up to the day as the workout evolves. It is really quite refreshing.
But plans went awry the first day of my getting up no matter what. As a reversal I wasn't able to fall asleep until 4:30 so I did nothing. But then slept until 9:00 and am feeling quite well considering and just getting ready to work out now.
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12-27-09, 08:37 PM | |
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Thanks ladies. Since I don't do barre, I'm sure I have some other type of workout I could substitute for those mornings. And I can see where knowing the first workout will not require a whole lot of energy would be easier to do no matter what. I have the flexible warrior dvd which has three segments. And one of them, IIRC, is a get energized type workout to use before you run or cycle. So after the first, I will try the get up and workout, NO MATTER WHAT, and have my bad night dvd's lined up, just in case. Thanks again.
And maybe, I'll just have to try a barre workout. |
12-27-09, 09:11 PM | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Atlanta-ish
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I was surprised at how much I like them. Start with something relatively cheap like Kathy Smith's Lift Your Body. I would think it would be easily traded for and then gotten rid of just as easily if you don't like it.
No complicated terms, no complicated moves, nicely chaptered. I even like the warmup, and I rarely like warmups. Good luck to you. Was up early this morning bouncing on my new rebounder. That wasn't bad, either. But I had been up a little while doing real work before I went down so I wasn't as clumsy.
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If you need a hug today, consider yourself hugged. "Moderation is remembered only after the deed is done." Mirabelle Watkinson, fabulous writer in residence. "I am patient with stupidity but not those who are proud of it." Edith Sitwell Words matter. I thought I had seen it all. Then I tried on my bathing suit. (Unknown sage at craft show) |
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