This week’s challenge is a weird one 😆 You have to do 1 different mobility stretch or position every day… But you are NOT allowed to do it on the ground. That means: • no floor pancake • no floor pike • no sitting stretches on the ground • no lying down and pretending that counts 👀 You have to find a way to do your mobility somewhere else. Examples: • on a couch • on stairs • on a chair • on a bench • at a desk • on a counter • hanging from something • anywhere random and creative ✅ The rules • Do 1 mobility stretch or position every day • It has to be a different one each day • You are not allowed to do it on the ground • Post it in the comments if you want extra points for creativity 😄 🎯 The goal The goal is to: • make mobility more fun • get you trying new positions • stop overthinking it • show that movement can happen anywhere 🏆 Bonus points Most random spot wins. So if you end up doing a hamstring stretch somewhere ridiculous, I want to see it 😂 👇 Comment below if you’re in, and tell me what stretch or position you think you’ll try first.

I forgot to add my training when we were doing the challenge last week. Press to handstand isn't in my wheelhouse yet. But I can work on straight arm strength and compression, and some handstand practice. Dragonfly I can do, so straightening the arms and seeing if I can turn that and crane into some tuck planche training. And long term goal of a stalder press has to start somewhere. Even just getting my butt off the floor felt like an effort.

I had another busy day on lack of sleep, but hopefully my sleep will return to normal soon (my toddler is in a growth spurt ATM and wakes up in the night). I did some inverted rows at the park, lots of incline pushups throughout the day everywhere, more glute bridges, the forearm plank for 45 seconds and over a minute rest then 20 more seconds (that's all I could do--it's SO, SO HARD!), and used 15 pound weights to hold my arms out like the iron cross for as long as I can twice and later in the day did 15 reps with them (literally a few seconds break after each one by the time I started that as my arms were already tired and sore), a few squats, and leg raises. So although I had a very busy day, I prioritized more exercise today everywhere. A little bit at a time throughout, not all at once. With all that said, I am still in my typical step range and have only 4, 736 steps at the end of the day. I don't understand how busy people can consistently get 10,000+ steps per day. I have done it a few times this year, but that's me going on two 30 minute walks plus general moving around the house. It's so hard to get steps in. What's an easy and fun way to get at least 10,000 steps per day? I struggle big time with that, especially with my busy life. I will probably do daily updates for only 7 days or so then I will switch to a weekly update. I tend to stay up way too late writing these updates and it's best if I can at least go to bed earlier if my baby girl is going to wake me up in the middle of the night. I may be able to write some other posts in the week, but not like these updates at the end of the day. We will see what happens. I do still want to remain fairly active on here whether that be making posts or actually being able to comment on others posts, that would be nice. Off to bed now. Thanks for reading!

When I first arrived I was locked out of my room while they were preparing it. I had a backpack weighting 19 pounds with important items in case they took a while for them to deliver my suitcase to my room. I decided while waiting to eat and try the food. Probably ate to much but was glad that I felt that the food and deserts were not going to be a temptation. I had a couple of hours before my room was going to be ready so I decided to explore the ship with my 19 pound back pack. Never took the elevator but when up and down the stairs between 20 to 30 flights of stairs. After I finally got in my room I left my back pack and went to the gym and did 15 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the rower. As I finished the personal trainer came up to me and told me he was ready for me now. We spent over an hour on an upper body workout. For each exercise we did 4 sets started with a low weight and did high reps and each set a heavier weight with few reps. Afterwards I went to my room and showered and then made a few more trips from my room and ate a little more and of course a few more fights of stairs. I went back to my room and laid down on the bed to watch some tv and fell asleep. Today I felt very stiff and achy. I took my blood pressure and it was normal. I weighted and it looked like I lost close to 2 pounds. Today I'm just going to relax most of the day. I plan on doing cardio before breakfast and then roaming the ship, walking the decks and running a lap or 2 and maybe trying the pool and hot tub today and some time on the internet. Hope you all are having a great day!!!

Inspired by every one of you on here posting amazing wins, yesterday I cycled out to Dublin’s first ever Calisthenics park to see what it was about. It had a wall to practice handstands, lovely soft wood chips, and nothing breakable in the vicinity so I decided to see if I could kick up into any sort of handstand. Lo and behold, after a few attempts, I figured out the energy and momentum needed and got both feet up over my head. It wasn’t in the least bit pretty but it felt amazing, and I even managed to hold it for a few seconds (I didn’t video it so you’ll just have to trust me 😉). Now I’ve just watched @Zara Doering ‘s handstand, I will practice that to get used to being upside down. And I’m also going to practice crow to improve my balance as @Brandon Beauchesne-Hebert recommends. Any other tips or advice welcome!