fitness

I haven’t done one of these forever basically because I’ve been slacking.  I haven’t been doing any formal workouts at all.  Trying to get back to form now.

I’ve been doing more walking in the morning because I’ve been having to walk Freckles.  She decided a few weeks ago that it would just be easier on everyone if she didn’t go outside to go to the bathroom anymore.  She could just go downstairs in the sewing room.  It wasn’t cold outside.  She didn’t care if we were home or not.  She wasn’t acting like she was doing anything bad.  She honestly seemed to think that she had had a brilliant insight and was shocked that we weren’t agreeing.

So, under the principle that a tired dog is a well behaved dog, we instituted morning and evening walks.  Usually we just let her out in the backyard to run around.  I do mornings.  We go from 0.5 miles to 1.5 miles depending on weather.  This seems to have solved the problem.

Saturday

I swam some laps.  I haven’t done that in a few months.  On the third length my arms pointed this fact out to me.  I ended up doing 10 laps (500 meters) alternating 25 m breaststroke and 25 m backstroke.

Monday

Walked about 1.5 miles at the gym.  I lose track of the laps all the time.  Mixed in walking lunges and some body weight Bulgarian split squats.


I got a new Fitbit.  I had the Zip which is the smallest one.  I really liked it but it has a battery instead of plugging in to recharge.  Every time the battery dies, it is a real problem to change the battery.  Actually, you can change the battery but it might not work.  It isn’t just me.  This is a known problem.  I’ve gotten a few free replacements from Fitbit because of it.  This time I went into my first battery change and it seemed to work.  I was thrilled.  I put it on and looked at it a little later and it said 170 steps.  That seemed a little light but I wasn’t sure.  I looked a few hours later.

It read 3 steps (not 3 steps more- 3 steps total for the day) and I’d lost 3 hours on the clock.

I was done.  I bought a new FitBit One which plugs in to charge like the older Fitbits did.

I’m going to be going to a conference in a few weeks and I always rack up major steps there.  I was actually feeling a bit odd at the idea of going without a pedometer.  If you walk a lot and it isn’t monitored, does it even count?