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Friday, February 11, 2011

Borrowing 'fitness friday'

I've been having some trouble deciding what to write about first, so I'm borrowing a thing from a blog I follow and making it 'fitness friday'.

In the past few weeks I've been working myself up to a new fitness routine that I devised just after new years. It's partly to help me get better at pole, and partly to get back in shape, since I've gained some inches around my middle since two years ago when I moved in with my boyfriend (now fiance), and picked up a few of his bad habits.

I've currently worked my way up to two pole practices (well, three this week), two 'conditioning' days (I'm using pilates for this one, although I may make it just stretching once my pole exercises are almost daily), three cardio days (biking, walking, skip rope, hula, etc.), and three days a week doing my 'pole exercises' (a list of things to practice specific to improving my pole skills, changing as needed - step ups, bb grip tucks, ckr situps, etc).

Once I've worked everything in, this will be my weekly exercise routine:

Pole Practise - 3 times a week
Conditioning (pilates/stretching) - 2 or 3 times a week
Cardio - 3 times a week
Pole Exercises - 5 times a week (I'm aiming for doing them first thing in the morning, but we'll see...I'm not the best morning person) It might seem like a lot, but I decided that each thing only needs to be 30 minutes (though the pole exercises only take about 20 mins currently). This makes it easy to do more than one thing in a day (eg. go for a 30 min walk, then doing pilates).

So far I've been feeling pretty good about it. I schedule it into my day according to when I have time. This week I added an actual pole class back in, on a day I hadn't had scheduled, so I'm counting it as one of my cardio and pole exercises - especially since I'm sore and my body feels like it needs a rest today.

The way I've got it set up, I should be up to my full routine three weeks from now.
I'll keep posting how I'm doing with it - I plan on making progress posts on my pole strength, my flexibility (once I start my stretching dvd), and my getting back into shape stuff.

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