attempts at exercise

[burntcopper]

working from home today. which of course was the cue for the login to try and redirect to a different server that i don't have access to...

As I'm not jogging at mo due to it being pitch black when I get home (I refuse to attempt to cross cattle grids, and jog by the river in the dark, thankyou - it's already slightly slick and boggy during the day due to it being winter), so in an attempt to get some calorie burn, I'm trying skipping. First attempt today since I'm not getting in the up and down stairs that i get at work when I take screen breaks with the smokers. Cue me doing 100 without a problem, stop to take a breath... and then trip every ten or so on the next 50. :eyes skipping rope beadily: Having flashbacks to boxing when they intro'd skipping in the warm-ups.

Muscle-bound boys of armband colour whatever : *flail, trip every 5 or ten, or get it tangled in ceiling lights*
Girls, including the beginners who'd only been going to class 2 weeks : '200... 300... BORED NOW. I like coffee, i like tea... anyone want to do the two-rope?'

i'm still not sure how it's supposed to burn more calories than jogging. Seriously. it's possibly the most low-impact no-effort thing you can do - I mean, seriously, it's very slow rhythmic jogging and jumping. Even when you're doing it fast.

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

You're moving your arms as well (well, not just MOVING them, but Doing Stuff)? Maybe that helps?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

could be that your body doesn't register it as exercise because it takes bugger all effort mentally (see: female). Like the fact that hula-hooping is apparently really good at working your abdomen, hips, thighs and so on but if you know how, it's no effort.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Hula-hooping is TOO effort. *sulky look of someone who's never been able to keep the hoop on her hips*

[gerriparker.livejournal.com]

skipping absolutely kills me!!

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Skipping with ankle weights on maybe?

Or how many skipping tricks can you do?

[jovieve.livejournal.com]

Hee! That sounds familiar. My high school gym class had four girls and twenty boys. The only thing I ever came first at was first to 100 in skipping as a warm up. *g*

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

That's my masculinity buggered, then. Must have been because I was in a school with only girls, except me, in the years 1-6 when I was in year 5 and 6. (In years 3-4, there were two other boys, two years over me).

Keeping on one foot for fifty and then switching to the other foot gives a bit more feeling of exercising, though, and it helps improving balance, too.