Yeah, it's a headache. I never used to be woken up by these.

I'm from a mega-athletic family, and was pushed into sports at a young age, but I sucked. I was major klutz and plain not interested in any of it until the martial arts came along.

I cannot exercise for exercise's sake, and I respect those who can. I exercise because it's in the martial arts, or I exercise to support them directly. Adrenaline and endorphins are fun, but I'm still picky.

That having been said, if running makes you feel better, do it! But don't be turned off exercise as a whole (and martial arts in specific) if it doesn't. For the life of me I can't convince Kat to try krav. Oh, she'll exercise, but krav's not her thing. Me, the only reason I went near running was to be more fit for a krav test. She loves it for some reason I can't understand. It's that individual.

Oh, and a hearty third on the yoga. Get some ashtanga stuff, and it's great for strength and fitness. Okay, all of it's pretty good, but I think ashtanga will feel more like you're working out, yet still slowly, and by yourself.

Positive vibes to all who need them.

~ma all around!

My dream last night had David Bowie dressed as he was in Labyrinth, but he was a pirate.

Best. Dream. Ever!

I have a ton of schoolwork to do today and I just don't wanna. Can someone email me some motivation, please?

Job-vibing for juliana and for MG's DH.

-ma and prayers both to Grandma Mary, and some -ma for Nora as well.

And, damn, those pictures! Lovely statue, extremely lovely professional recognition of your hard work and incredible giftedness, very lovely couple (which is, um, kind of surprising but not, and belated congratulations, though phoo on you for saving all the big announcements and schmoop for LJ-land and not here), and sensational splendid red hair!

Off now to shower and ferry Emmett across the Bay.

Health and settling in~ma to Grandma Mary.

Good luck with the exercise stuff, Fay. When I was taking aikido my arms and abs looked really good, and running seemed to help my progress. No idea if this would carry over to other martial arts, but it's a datapoint. Everyone else's exercise advise sounds good to me.

I'm doing long walks and the occasional yoga now. If I could get back into a regular yoga regimen, my arms, back, and abs would thank me. And I'll second the rec. on ashtanga--best yoga class I ever took.

My gosh, people, in the midst of all the excercise talk, didn't you see this?

after that it's probably going to be the Far East, or India, or the States

Fay in the States! All that fabulosity within reach--or at least in similar time zones!

Perkins - Saturday should be clear. The girls are gone and I just have to make sure DH is ok with having CJ for the day.

I was gonna see about going to Harry Potter on Friday, taking CJ...would be glad to have anyone else interested join us.

Cool. Sadly, I can't HP on Friday, unless it's pretty late-- I have a chiro appointment after work.

for a starting and easy weightlifting program - to start - go with the strong women stay slim. They start with weight lifting because, quite frankly, larger women are stronger and they tend to be successful at it. I am not a runner, but I think the plan of sreching a 2 month program to a three months is a great idea. It gives you room to get used to things mentally. have fun.

ma~~ to mary.

keep well vw.

When you say weight lifting, beth, are you distinguishing it from doing weights? I mean, are you looking at it like the sport? Because "doing better at it" doesn't have to mean how much you're moving -- it's about how well you progress.

At least in how I've looked at it, but I'm not familiar with the angle you're describing, beth.

Also, when you say larger, do you mean fatter-larger or bigger-larger? My brain is preventing me from slicing that further semantically, so I hope I'm making sense. Krav-wise I haven't noticed overweight women being much stronger than women who aren't--although they can load more weight behind a technique. But that doesn't work against a machine. Bigger women who aren't overweight do tend to be stronger than the average. And then there are the women who might be overweight, but if you zapped it away, you'd be left with larger, and stronger. It's very varied.