I played tennis yesterday with Nic, Chester and Russell after church. Not one of my wisest moves due to a few reasons:
1) I didn’t plan on playing tennis therefore did not bring proper gear - no footwear or proper clothes or a tennis racket. I ended up playing in a dress ala Maria Sharapova and in thongs I had left in my car instead of the high heeled boots I had on for church.
2) I had never played tennis in my life and am used to playing badminton.
3) I didn’t warm up prior to playing.
As a result of my venture into the world of playing tennis, I now have a sore butt, wrist and back. Apart from that, I’m really enjoying tennis…Hehehe….Another session scheduled for after church next week. Here’s to hoping I don’t get so many sore body parts!
OKlah, I admit I’m a little on the fat side…..So I went for a walk today sort of as a endorphine boost since I was did 4 iLectures today, which meant I was practically glued to the computer for roughly 8 hours today. I tell you these lectures are a torture. Real pain in the ass to go and watch them, but 12 iLecures later, 24 hours of pain later, half a file of notes later, I triumphed against it. Not that I sat for my exam yet, but I finished studying a major part of the unit, just have to go thru the Mental Health Act and then thru my tute notes and readings and be done with this unit once and for all.
Jolene came back from Melbourne for the weekend and we had massive plateful of sheep’s cheese and fruits and I had half a glass of red wine. I think I feel much better than I did when I was watching the iLectures from 10am till 6pm today. Now I’ve gotta read a little bit and as a reward (Hah!) I’m going to read my neuro case studies. Not that its much of a reward or anything but I still have to watch those DVDs of the neurophysical and the hemiparesis of the shoulder etc.
The viva exam questions are definitely much easier than last year’s rehab once. Don’t think passing that one is much of a problem, already passed the unit, just have to pass this to technically pass the unit.
No, its not a Craig David song. I just bought a pedometer ($2 @ Priceline :)) today and was going to record how many steps I took in a day to see if I was getting roughly the right amount of ‘exercise’ without even knowing it. Found these few helpful sites that explained the whole concept about taking 10 000 steps per day, the idea which originated in Japan.
This site mentioned that a sedentary person takes about 1000 - 3000 steps per day. I started wearing the pedometer at 5pm today and went about and did house chores and ate dinner and the counter already says I took 1489 steps. In 2 hours. I don’t think I would classify myself as a sedentary person after that.
I’m going to wear it to work tomorrow, for my shift starting 8am till 3pm and see how many steps I’ve taken throughout the day. The goal is to take 10 000 steps per day, to keep active. I’m generally sick of feeling so unfit and so flabby during the winter and exam months. Those chocolates at the supermarket don’t really do much for the wait after a while….Hurrr….
So here’s the plan:
1. No more chocolate and junk food allowed. Only 1 item of junk food is allowed per month as a treat.
2. No taking naps during the day unless sleep the night before was 6 hours or less.
3. Exercise! Dancing to music is exercise. Cleaning up my room is exercise. Walking around is exercise.
4. Spend 15 minutes a day tidying up my room (Yes, dad this is your advice all along :P)
A plan is nothing if I don’t keep track of any progress right? Here’s to making progress!
