"Adina" - a beautiful Hylas 46 had left when we got up this morning - bound for Spain and carrying Tom and Susie on their first long passage. They left me these beautiful daffodils.
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| Susie and Tom |
The birthday furnished the excuse which allowed me to break my routine. Although I'm a hopeless athlete (only shining at the 3-legged race at school) I've always tried to maintain some type of exercise program.
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| Slim version with Mama Naluai in Hawaii - 2002 |
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| Marigold Edwards on Trav 3 in N.Z. |
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| Beth with Kevin |
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| With friend Shelagh in France 2013 |
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| Karate promotion in Bellingham 2004 |
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| With Signe at Fitness First |
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| Frida and Rae |
Canada's10BX program, the Ottawa marathon (1987) and a brown belt in karate kept me fit in past years.
Marigold Edwards and Beth Hansen (former owner of "Red" - our sister ship) have helped me stay more fit. To develop the "core" teacher Heather Quipp (Alexander Technique) and friend Shelagh Aitkins have kept me a practitioner. It's difficult to keep my level of aerobic fitness and keep off the extra pounds while travelling. In port, one can join a fitness club. Frida or Signe and I met 5x weekly to go to Fitness First in London.
On the move, Larry installs some TRX straps every time we reach a harbour.
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| Signe's 'bespoke' yoga exercises for me |
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| TRX resistance straps |
I currently spend 18 minutes doing heavy aerobic resistance training with these 5x weekly. I follow this with either 35 minutes of Callanetics or 15 minutes of yoga (thanks Signe).
The advantage of the Callanetics is that over the last 7 years (since Jilly introduced me to it in Nelson N.Z.)
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| Jilly with Peter at Christmas 2006 |
I can do these even while we're offshore.
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| Callanetics - 1990 edition |
"Adina" - a beautiful Hylas 46 had left when we got up this morning - bound for Spain and carrying Tom and Susie on their first long passage. They left me these beautiful daffodils. 
thnx for the reminder about callanetics - I had totaly forgotten all about this routine technique untill going over your blog yesterday. in a lifetime before, I used to be a personal trainer and also taught fitness classes at a gym in rural New South Wales AUS many years ago. I have already brought out some of my old low impact and floor exercises and some yoga from the cobwebs of my brain to keep myself fit onboard - on shore -leave I can get in some jogging and bush walking but age and injuries are catching up.
ReplyDeletethnx to your post I have another routine to play with
Cheers Nancy