As lockdown progressed, I soon realised that if I was to survive being stuck at home with few positive distractions then I was going to have to choose carefully between eating myself into a whole new wardrobe or getting my unfit body back into shape. Thankfully for my body and my wallet, I chose fitness.
Nearly 100 days with these daily scribbles. I’m impressed with myself! Tonight I planned things wrong because I came home from work and did a few jobs that I didn’t necessarily need to do, but didn’t do the two I did need to do (this and uploading a specific piece to the website that some […]
Yesterday I was regretting that I didn’t get much exercise over the weekend especially since I hadn’t done much in the past two weeks either (unless you count walking round Dublin for hours). Given that my evenings after work these days are jam-packed with this blogging malarkey and the business course I’m doing (which together […]
I used to practice just Ashtanga yoga and do little other form of exercise. I thought the intensive yoga each morning was enough, and there’s no doubt that it’s a very healthy thing to move and stretch and strengthen the body with Ashtanga yoga. But it’s not a complete form of exercise because it’s not […]
I recently had to take a break of nearly six months off my daily Ashtanga yoga practice due to a mild yet recurring hamstring issue. Having been a strict and devout Ashtangi for a year (meaning 6-mornings-a-week practicing the same sequence by myself, day in, day out) this official break felt wrong and weird, like I […]
It was a lazy Sunday – I had done very little bar morning yoga and a shower and as the afternoon wore on I became very unsettled, firm in the belief that by not being productive I was somehow wasting my one precious day off. Now a Buddhist monk may well have sat on his […]
Yup – I cheated. On the sweet love of my life… Sure, we’ve been going through a rough patch lately – I’ve not been as committed or attentive as I used to be. There are days I’ve woken up and been like, Oh God, I’m so not into you right now and then felt stricken because I […]
As promised in my last post, I have to update you guys on my yoga progress so here it is: there isn’t much. My ideals of getting up earlier with that water spray plan failed. The first morning I just got out of bed, switched off the alarm and crawled straight back in again. Doh! I did […]
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