Project 22
Getting fitter
As I am running out of materials and the Lockdown restrictions have been relaxed a bit I have decided to try and get fitter during the C-19 Crisis...
Since restrictions on Outdoor Exercise were relaxed fro 1 hour per day I have been doing a bit more - as much as my knees allow!
After my morning hour of physio and weights exercise I am now doing a 1 mile tour of our village (visiting my local woods and watching the Great Spotted Woodpecker nest for at least 2 feeds of the chicks), then having breakfast. After breakfast - or if the weather dictates, after lunch - I go for an hours walk or cycle ride around the lanes from home. Once a week I push a bit harder and do a one and a half hour walk, visiting my local beauty spot (luckily this is within walking distance of home
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) and this is what I managed today. If I have walked the bigger walk in the morning I try to fit in another 1 miler in the afternoon. Any time I am watching TV I fit in up to 6 more sets of leg extension and 5kg dumbell curls instead of just vegging
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The walking takes my knees to the edge of pain - and it is to get out of pain and avoid knee surgery that I started losing weight and rebuilding muscle in the first place!
The longer walk is quite pleasant and today I saw young Woodpeckers almost ready to fly (not my normal nest to watch)Badger, Fox and Rabbit sign, lots of birds, a gateway to Anwn (the waterfall) wild flowers galore and some of the views that first attracted me to the area.
I attach some photos taken on today's walk - there are quite a few....
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