Okay, so a lot of my postings have had a bit of "seriousness" about them that I believe takes away from the enjoyability of reading a blog. So I'm going to try to inject more humour into my postings, after all, as Oscar Wilde once said "Life is too important to be taken seriously."
I've started back with the Personal Trainer, Gary. I'm sure some of you were unaware that we'd stopped our sessions, but I reached the end of the 12 weeks and decided to have a month off to re-think my training. You see, I picked up one of those "Over 40 and gritting our teeth and loving it" magazines that the Americans are so fond of writing. The articles have the best titles such as "Learning to Love Your Sagging Boobies", "Finding Jeans to Fit and Flatter the Over Forty Body" and many, secrety sponsored I supsect, articles about Botox.
Oh, and BTW, I know there are several of you gals out there who are having Botox and aren't admitting to it. Don't think I haven't noticed that you can't frown anymore. That's okay, you can do whatever you want to your faces, just don't get on your hobby horse about my other friends who are openly talking about their procedures. It's just naughty to feign indignation when you're office having "Bessie's Botulism" injected into your "Who knew tanning in the 80s without sunscreen was such a bad idea?" lines.
Anyway, back to Gary and the training sessions. This article for over 40s (I just typed over 50s by mistake, it's a sign!!!) and here's their proposed training schedule for us 40+ gals
Weights - 2-3 x 30 minute sessions a week, with a gap of up to 72 hours between sessions to recover
Cardio - 3-4 sessions a week of 35 minutes (well, I do an hour a day 7 days a week because I am trying to shift my vegan cheesecake spare tyre)
Core Strength - Pilates 2-3 times a week
Stretching - Yoga, Body Balance, Tai Chi - 3 to 4 sessions a week, OR 10 minutes a day.
Seems like an awful lot of work to me, but if you include your 10 minutes stretching immediately after your weights and cardio it makes it a bit easier.
So anyway, here is my new revised schedule
Weights - 2 a week with Gary
Cardio - 6-7 times a week for 1 hour
Stretching - 3-4 yoga classes a week
On other news, my weight started plummeting with the new Vegan diet, but then I discovered Vegan wine and this week I gained 2 kilos. I'm hoping it's fluid retention that's causing my Miss Sixtys to look like Miss Eightys at the moment.
My goal this time around to keep a better record of my achievements for the 14 weeks and give you a posting of how I'm progressing.
If I slip a week, please send me a reminder to pull my fucking finger out.
Love to you all
Kate
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