Soon vacation!

This is my last time at the gym for some weeks,- going to Gran Canaria for 3 weeks. My paradise island away from ice,snow and cold weather!

This will be my view......

It will be very good for my back and the rest of my body going away from the winter in Norway.

At the gym this week I did this:
Treadmill: 11% increase, 5km and 15 minutes

Plank: 6 + 3 (3 more than earlier!)

LOL I tried to take photo of how my feet are hanging in the straps,- hehe,looks strange

Sideplank: 6 (left and right)
Lifting stomach with feet on a big fitnessball: 10
BOSOball: balancing + squats on the ball (10X3)

Manuals for my vrist: 4 kg,10X3
I also did some pulldown and some of the other devices.
Today I got a good massage from my physioterapist after the excercises,- nice reward 💓

This week we had some more snow, and they say we will get much colder weather,- maybe 15-20 degrees minus. 

So it will be some weeks without excercising (when I come home it is Christmas holiday), if I am online maybe I will write here, if not you will hear from me when I am home in Norway again 💜

Take care and do not overdo Christmas preparations !

Maybe you can tell me if you do some excercises when you are on holiday? Or do you just relax?




Big hugs 💗

Winter.......

Last week we had the winterweather I (and my back) hate! First nice white snow

Nice to walk, not slippery and temperature was -5 degrees C wich is nice 😊
Then we got RAIN 😟 So it was pure ice to walk on!

And then the worse: dry snow on top of the ice! Even Dennis was having some problems!

I had to find my ice help devices,- 

 When I have these on my boots I feel safer 😊
I also use my poles with the spikes out

The weather on Sunday was beautyful,- sunny and not too cold so we had to go for a walk even of the snow on ice.......

On Monday I was at the gym,- did my plank and sideplank and the excersises on the fitnessball, and the manuals on my fractured vrist.

My physiotherapist gave me one more thing to do: On the BOSO ball (half fitnessball). When I stand on it it feels good for my back to stand still and just balance 💓 Now I also shall do squats on top of the ball 😎 And I can do it! 10 squats fast, a little pause and then 10 two more times.
I really surprise my self at the gym,- would never have taught I could do all of these things 😏

How are you? What do you do at the gym? Or do you excercise at home?

Hope all of you are having a nice day?

Are you ready for Christmas? 🎅
 
I am looking foreward to having a holiday on a nice,warm island in December 💗

 
 
 

Busy week

Snow is here, and my rose are drowning 😊

Only one day at the gym this week, due to appointements with my heartdoctor.
I have some atrie flutter and murmur (? extra sound in my heart). I know when I got the flutter,- to busy job as a voluntary in the jazzfestival in 2005. The extra sound in my heart I might have had all my life,- it doesn't bother me, but if the valve (?) get stiff they will replace it with a metal type. 
I go for checkups every 2-3 year,- so I feel safe 💓

Do you have heartproblems? Because of the scoliosis?

Yesterday I was meeting the doctor, he did ultrasound and EKG.
 

My heart 💓

Today I was connected to a 24-hours EKG device.

6 of these wires

With a small computer collecting data

 Tomorrow I will go back to the hospital and they can read the small computer. Last time my pulse when I was a sleep was 170! Hope it is better now.

The winter is not a good time for my back,- it is slippery and cold. But I love the crisp air, and my dog loves it!



Do you have winter now? Snow? How does you cope?


Wishing you all a nice day 💓

 
 

Still going strong.......

I struggle to get back to excercise 3 days a week,- but at least I manage 2 days 💪
Yesterday I started as usual with the treadmill,- now I do 11% hill and 5 km same as I did last winter 😊

I only walk for 15 minutes so far, not 30 like last winter,- but I am getting there.

After walking I did the new excercises,- plank, sideplank and the excercises on the big fitnessball. My physiotherapist says I do them the right way so I hope I will feel progress soon! My lower back is ok with these excercises, but my stomackmuscles gets sore. That's a good thing because strong muscles in stomach is important for supporting the back.
 Maybe some of the fat will go away too? 😏

I also did use some of the devices in the gym,- rowing is one of them.

Now I use 10, only 2 levels left 👍
I also used the manual on my left hand because of the fracture last winter, now I use 4 kg.

We are getting closer to winter, -5C last night and the ground is icy so I have to be carefull when I am out walking. Last year we had lots of snow on this day, luckely now we have nothing 💓

Frozen flowers

I enjoyed a very nice basketball game on Saturday with my nephew playing. My back was really sore after the game (bad seat) but sometimes you just have to things that your back does not like 😏

Do you have winter coming? Do you usually have snow? Or do you have summer now?

Wishing everyone a great day with not much pain!

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