Wellness

I’ve been doing pretty well about checking in almost daily on the Wii Fit program so as to at least track my progress. I only missed two days in December.  My exercise has settled into a sort of regular rhythm which I’ve been trying to find for the better part of a year or more. I’ve been alternating between my three Wii Fitness programs most of the time. The cardio boxing program is progressing better than I expected. I find it’s getting more difficult but is still quite manageable. The New U program continues to build upon previous routines too. My focus on abdominal muscles seems to be working. A few of the exercises have been quite difficult but I can already see an improvement over my first efforts. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to work on this area ven though it’s been rather poochy ever since my pregnacy with Game Fanatic. I’m mostly using the Wii Fit Plus program to do aerobic exercise such as jogging and a couple yoga exercises.

I spent several days recently with varying digestive disturbances. Much of the time it’s simply felt irritated, painful and/or uncomfortable but today that seemed to have improved so that it’s just a very noisy stomach. That’s assuming I don’t have a second relapse.  I ended up missing four days of exercise during this period although I did get in a bit of work in garden one evening. The last exercise I’d done had been pretty full on and I was really sore in a couple areas so the first part of the break was beneficial to allow a bit of healing there.My return to exercise went far better than I expected.

I did come across a slight problem due to a bug in the New U program a couple days ago.  The routine set up for me had nine exercises and I went through the first several with no problem. One of the exercises was to do twelve pressups and I did those extremely well. I got my best rating this time and was quite pleased with myself. Then I moved on to the next exercise, which turned out to be the same thing. I tried but there was no way I could manage another twelve so I skipped it. I was again presented with the same. In fact, the number of exercises at some point had changed to nineteen and all of them were the pressups. So I skipped right on through to the end and had a terrible rating due to missing out on all those hundreds of pressups. :) I made up for the missed exercises in the Wii Fit program. I’ve not had any further issues with the program, which is quite a relief since I like it so well.

Yesterday I also had great difficulty doing push ups in the cardio program. It required me to place both palms on the Wii Fit board and push up from there. Due to my general weakness and my excess weight, it was impossible to do even one. I eventually found out I could do it from a kneeling position and thus managed about four. My shoulders are still sore from that one so I probably will give it a miss should it come up in the next few days.