Chaos verses calmness

My plan in my last update has worked real well.

I have trained hard and enjoyed my cardio on my exercycle and the glute-inator.

Focused on fun exercises and refreshed things. Played new music and sang along loudly.

It’s been a real busy week with family commitments and school functions etc but I am pleased with how well I did.

My Arthritis is flaring up big time in my hands, especially my thumbs.

When I am well I forget all too easy how much it hurts. I guess it is a bit like giving birth, you do it again even though it hurt like hell.

My hands etc have been fine for about a whole year but since I got sick a few weeks ago the arthritis has hit and I can’t seem to get it under control.

I performed all my workouts early on in the week and gave myself 4 days off training but as I should know by now, not training makes it worse.

This morning I had to train through unbearable pain in my thumbs for the first few exercises and then all of a sudden the pain decreased and now I feel heaps better.

The hardest bit is to not give up and sit on your bum.

I have said to so many people in the past that the resistance work decreases my pain and yet it still amazes me every time that it does.

I honestly could hardly move my thumbs when I started, and now I have full range of motion again. It’s nothing short of a miracle, my own little wonder drug.

My poor training partner though, she has to endure me almost screaming/crying with pain for the first few sets of our dumbbell chest presses.

Thank goodness I have my own gym to train in also, might get kicked out of the public ones.

I have lost 1 stone now so well on track and I am seeing the results of my years hard training already, this is very motivating and exciting. I don’t build muscle easy so any little added muscle is to be celebrated.

This week is going to be full of excitement.

I have last minute shopping to do before the children break up from school on Wednesday.

I have to try and get into my wardrobe and wrap up the hidden presents and then try to hide them back in the wardrobe. You know when you take something out of somewhere and then for some reason it never really fits back in the same hole!!!

I have got a lovely busy week with Clients. So really looking forward to training them.

We finished the Christmas cake this week and it looks so cute.

My plan is to give most of it away so I don’t end up eating it all.

(Not sure this plan will work)

My Exercise Plan is:

My cardio focus will be sitting on my exercycle which is wiser while my R.A is playing up.

My weight workouts hopefully can be all done in the mornings as when the R.A is bad the fatigue hits me like a convoy of trucks in the afternoons.

I also want to maintain the calmness of the mind. It is all too easy this time of year to get stressed. There are so many people everywhere and it takes more time to drive places and find a park. The cities energy can affect my own energy so it will be great practice to try and calm down and enjoy the festive season, not get drawn into the chaos.

When I was shopping yesterday we had the massive power cut that shut down a lot of businesses in the north island.

I was lined up at a shop checkout; they were down from 8 checkouts to just 2. I only waited for about 15 minutes which I thought was pretty good but already people were starting to moan and groan.

Why do this when it is not the shop workers fault? They were trying to handle the situation as best they could.

It doesn’t take much to stress people out these days.

I remember reading one of Cesar Millan’s updates where he said in rained in LA and the whole city came to a stand still, they really did not know how to handle it.

It stressed everyone out!!!! How crazy huh, very rarely do you see someone walking in LA either. Humans rely on material things to much.

Our people in Christchurch have had to endure the loss of material things and basic needs like water, toilet, power, a stable roof over their heads. In a way they are now richer than us as they have had to live close to Mother Nature again. They are stronger and wiser.

So yesterday shops closed their doors as fast as they could as their money machines went down, some shops carried on but still got abused for being to slow or it was too hot in the shop without the air conditioner on.

Most of the world has forgotten how to dance in the rain, jump in puddles, stretch your arms up towards the sun, roll your pants up and wade in the ocean waves.

One of the reasons that I love living in New Zealand is that we get to experience all 4 seasons, this should make us better people, able to deal with change and adjust better.

I appreciate the sunshine after a long cold winter, but when the leaves start to full of the trees and it starts getting cold I appreciate that winter is coming and our Mountain is going to look fabulous.

Last winter we were lucky enough to get snow, it was beautiful. There is nothing like playing in the snow with your kids and building a snow man, no matter how pathetic it turns out.