i jogged a whole mile today!
I've been going to the gym since I was diagnosed with osteopenia (and also finally because I got through the red tape to get my health insurance to pay for it), and my strength has improved a lot, my pain has decreased, but a few weeks ago it really struck me how poor my endurance was.
I was doing some workouts without machines. Jumping jacks, step-ups (onto a step!), light dumbell stuff, idk what else, maybe some core stuff. And boy it just fricken killed me. 30 minutes in and I was cooked.
So I've been wanting to improve my endurance, so I jogged the last couple times. It was kinda rough, but I'd jog for one or two minutes then walk until my body got it's shit together, then jog sumore.
Well today, I jogged for about 17 minutes straight, and went like 1.1 or 1.2 miles! Didn't ever slow down. Never walked.
I got a cramp in my side, but it's a familiar running pain, nothing to be worried about, not when it's mild. I hit my mile, and I just kept going. I'd really zoned in on a point in the gym to stare at (the top of some squatting equipment), and I had one Billy Eilish song on repeat (Happier Than Ever (Edit)).
Well I finally decided to stop because my FOOT started hurting. And it was pain. Like "don't do that any more" pain. It was fine, no injury, but my foot was done being run on. Cooled down by walking for five minutes, then got on with another 50 minutes of working out. (foot pain stopped as soon as I stopped running)
Anyway. That's a real excite for me. Feels like I'm making progress on the endurance side of things. And working out has been pretty enjoyable lately. I haven't really been using much equipment.
For awhile, it was all equipment - hip abductors, leg press, arm/chest pull thingies, whatever.
Recently, I'm liking the non-equipment things, spending my whole gym time in roughly one spot. (Yes, dumbells and steps are both equipment, whatever.)
Oh! And I've been doing headstands! :D I love doing headstands.
I've been going for just one hour at a time. Today was like 1 hour 15 or 20 minutes. I want to start going like 30 minutes early so I can run before I work out. I didn't really have enough time today, yaknow?
But then again, I was kinda done by the time I left. I'd kinda had enough.
(Actually, did I go for more than an hour? I'm fuzzy about what time I left. Conflicting memories)