Tag Archive | exercise
Feb/Mar Fitness Challenge: The Home Stretch
According to my midwife, I’ve had a “boring” pregnancy. She meant it as a compliment… I’ve been pretty low maintenance for her over the last 8 months or so. Even given that midwives as providers tend to take on the low risk and easier pregnancies, I’ve been a breeze for her. I told her “you’re […]
January Fitness Challenge: Listening to My Body
I cannot believe it’s February already! It seems like just yesterday that we celebrated Christmas and started a new year! And here I am, about two months away from my most challenging body moment ever, and I’m so excited! I knew going into January that, as far as fitness challenges went, I was unlikely to […]
December Fitness Challenge: Walking and Baking and Walking Some More
Ha! Fitness! I have to laugh, because when I was reviewing my December, just like the previous few months, I really couldn’t help but relate my level of fitness back to pregnancy yet again. And while some people may find that tiring, the reality is that this big thing is happening to my body, and […]
November Fitness Challenge: A Pregnant Fish Out of Water
I was duped. As far as this pregnancy thing goes, I was told that the first trimester is the worst in terms of symptoms, particularly feeling tired all the time. And for a few weeks there I totally believed it. Then I hit a wall of exhaustion that has caused me to question my ability […]
Enough Swimming For Now
I just had my final swimming lesson last weekend, and I’m glad to be done with them. I wasn’t particularly enthused when I started, as you may recall, but as the class became better acquainted with each other, and I felt reassured that the born-to-swim instructor of ours wouldn’t make me do anything I wasn’t […]
Body Image: A Lite* Rant
*Lite rants contain less than 30% of the intensity of regular, full-blown rants. I’ve been thinking a lot about body image over the last few months. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how comfortable I am in my own skin these days, perhaps for the first time in my life, and so it follows that I’ve […]
Gratitude Gems: No Snow Yet
Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! Today I got to bike to work because it still hasn’t snowed here in the city. What a treat! Most mornings lately I’ve chickened out and walked because I’m afraid it’ll snow while I’m at work and I […]
Last-Minute Running
Autumn is upon us and it’s only a matter of time now before the snow flies and winter officially sets in, so as I was looking at my list of goals in September I was wondering whether I was going to be able to finish running two 5km runs. After all, running is no fun when you’re stuck […]
September Fitness Challenge: Just Keep Biking…
In terms of fitness, September, and to a lesser extent August, has mainly been about doing my best not to sit on my butt all day every day. As I mentioned last post, I’m pregnant (!) and while we’re very excited about that, it’s taken a toll on my body. My best efforts to get […]
May Fitness Challenge: 30×30
For the month of May, I completed the 30×30 Nature Challenge put on my the David Suzuki Foundation. The challenge is simple: spend at least 30 minutes in nature every day in the month of May. Most days I didn’t even need to think about ways to get outside because I was walking and biking to […]
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