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But a confession, still no improvement in my workaholic behaviour and skimping on sleep. Yes I will make an effort to impove and drop a few more bad habits.  ~~~ Tomorrow.
What day is tomorrow?
Please do not tell me it is Wednesday.
Well actually, it is past midnight so it is Thursday morning.  My action plans for this week have taken a bit of a slide. My active afternoons have been, tied up with a lot of sedentary activity, organizing appointment, public relations as I plan our tour.

I am very grateful I have the wii, as the little time I have had to be active this week has at least been spent in very active exercise, jogging, full body work outs and yoga, using my Wii Fit Plus , the Wii, Biggest Loser program and its weight loss yoga.  Therefore, less exercise but at least I have exercised at full efficiency.

Two fitness benefits have shown themselves in the short time I have been using the Wii.  The first one was that finally I could do a hamstring stretch. That has been a stretch, that I have been trying to do for three years, I set is as a goal to be able to do that movement, less than two weeks ago, never thinking for a moment that within 10 days of doing striving to do it while using the Wii, each night, I would have it mastered. J

The second fitness benefit is in my resting heartbeat, which was usually close to 40 and at times, my pulse would be so thready and weak, I could not, read it and most equipment will give an error message. Not a healthy reading, I figured I would need a pace maker and new valves one of these days but hoped it would be a long way off, and finally I have pushed that probability into the unlikely.

The slow pulse was one of the reasons why I rarely exercise in the mornings but sit quietly writing for hours, have breakfast and a couple of coffees until my pulse is up enough that I won’t feel a low pulse effects as I move around. 

Three years ago when I was morbidly obese, that slow pulse, would have me feeling feint several times a day and be sending me off to hospital a couple of times a week.  A year later, after I had lost a lot of weight, I was a lot healthier, my lungs clearer but the pulse was still too slow.

I have checked my pulse on and off today, from the moment I woke up until now, as I rest and write. My pulse has maintained a steady resting pulse rate of between 58 and 65 and that is a HUGE and healthy improvement. J. Finally, I am seeing results in that one last area of my health I had hoped to see stabilise back to great health. J. I am thrilledJ.

 
 


Comments

Carly

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 1:15:07 am

I have a Wii and i love it! I use Wii Active plus and in 2 weeks of using it i had toned my body, lost 20cm from by body and had alot better flexibility and movement... i highly recommend them

 

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