During the holidays

 I am very keen to assist anyone who wants to join the online exercise class.  Lots of our regular activities will go into recess over the summer holidays - so we might miss out on our precious physical activity.  I am building a catalogue of classes that will be available over the next three months.  

It will be a combination of the live classes online on Monday at 8.15am and Wednesday at 9.15 am recorded classes to access any time.

The new Monday class will be recorded each week.  

The Regular Cost
A monthly subscription costs $20.00 per month.
You will need the internet. Zoom classes do not use much internet data. However, dare I suggest that if you need more internet data, you can easily increase the data allowance on your phone plan for only a few extra dollars per month.

How much space do you need at home?
I teach the entire class from a mat in my lounge which is 1.5 metres by about 2 metres. My other venue is beside my son's kitchen table.  You don't need much space.

Time?
If we don't make time to keep well, we have to find time to be sick. The availability recorded classes means you can do classes at any time.  The shortest class is 10 minutes. There is a 24 minutes floor class, 30 minutes, and a 57 minute class 

All Welcome, but first

I am keen to help any newcomers. however, I would need to have a chat and outline the classes before a new person joins, to ensure their safety and class's suitability. 
So contact me by email if you want to give it a go.  My email is:-
annlear1@gmail.com

 

How much Exercise should we do? Less than you think.....There is a sweet spot.

 As a general rule, the more you exercise, the more benefit you gain.  It is important to consider why you want to exercise.  There are so many benefits: 

    Live longer

    Maintain a healthy body weight

    Perk up your immunity 

    Less pain - exercise is anti-inflammatory

    More energy

    Tolerate the hot weather

    Increase the number of your cells mitochondria.

I should stop now. I could go on all day.

In an article in the New York Times, Gretchen Reynolds investigates how much exercise we should do.  She found in the research that there is a sweet spot.    12 minutes.  That is not much.  It is a six minutes walk out and a six minute walk back.  ( I spend longer than that waiting for a kettle to boil) 

It turns out that there is tremendous benefit doing 12 minutes of exercise compared to doing nothing It is not a trivial benefit, it is for "all cause mortality".    

So if you don't have time to do exercise - you might just have to find time to be sick.

Spread your dots - Expand the triangle of joy. Habit of the Week

One way to check your posture is to open up the collar bone area.  It is easy.  Just imagine three dots:-

•     One at the front of each shoulder
•     One at the base of your sternum - the lowest part of your breastbone.

Once you have located these three sites, seek to expand the triangle they form. This automatically puts your neck, and therefore your head in the right place. 

As well, it is a positive stance, uplifted. Like putting a smile on your body.

The benefits

As well as the visual appeal, there are physiological benefits as well.  By lifting and expanding the upper part of the chest, the diaphragm is no longer compressed so it can move freely.  This matters to our new nasal breathing, wherein our diaphragm moves efficiently to allow for easier, more efficient breathing. I hope you are breathing through your nose right now.  There is also less pressure on the spine in the midback.  Our digestive organs are not compressed.

Meanwhile, this is an excellent habit we can implement on the way to Christmas day.  Every time you think of it expand that triangle of dots.  You will be retraining those muscles.  Our body adapts to the load we give it, so this uplifted posture will begin to feel quite normal - our default setting.

So Christmas day we will make a spectacular entrance.  We look younger, slimmer and smarter with our triangle of joy expanded. 

So spread your dots.     START RIGHT NOW

December Update

Every Monday I will conduct a fresh class at 8.00am.  It will have different music, different moves, a different theme and will include weights, stretches.  I will also discuss the habit of the week, as well as any other juicy new research.

This class will be available for one week, then removed to make room for the next.  So watch the date. Note , though, each week a new class which means a new link. So make sure you log into the current class.

So, there will be only one live class each week on Monday at 8.00am. 

Live Timetable Monday 8.00am

 - recorded each week - available for one week - Go crazy.  

There is still a library of classes.  Each week I will send out the appropriate link to the new Monday class. Take a look and let me have any feedback about the new system.  Would you like to change the make up of the Library. For instance more quiet classes?, more weights?. More H.I.I.T.?  Whatever.  Let me know. 

To join the class or to see the Library, just email me and I can send the details.

annlear1@gmail.com