Juneathon Days 29 & 30: The End and The Overview

So, it's all over...

Day 29:

I woke up at 15:00 after a late finish at work. I had a few hours before my next shift and quite a few things to do.

I decided for today I'd do:

• 50Squats
• 50 Leg Raises
• 60 Bicycle Crunches

After all that I quickly showered and started getting ready for work...

Day 30: 

THE LAST DAY! 

Although it didn't seem that exciting to begin with... the day started in a pretty awful way - you can read about that HERE. 

After the bad start I headed to a surprise birthday BBQ for an ex-colleague's 18th. I had so much fun I almost forgot about Juneathon, until Jess brought it up.

She managed to convince our friend, Alex, to run around the field with me for my last Juneathon. However, he was drunk and then also ended up taking another drunk person to get safely home - so we lost him...

He met up with us later at about 11pm though, and after we'd got changed all three of us (Jess, Alex, and I) went for a run.

We started off all jogging together, but Jess kept running out of breath then stopping. I surprised myself by actually having enough breath to have bits of conversation with Alex along the way.

We stopped at one point when I mentioned I can now (sort of) do sit ups and Alex and I did them (again, sort of) on the side of the road. Alex is training for the RAF, so did sort of show me up.

The rest of the way after that I ran then stopped and waited for Jess and Alex who were now walking. Alex was impressed by how well I was doing, as was I!

It was also quite nice that we did it at night, it was cool and there were few people about.

Overview: 

I have lost weight, and I feel better in myself!

I have discovered that it is possible to exercise every day, even when working full time and on nights.

My work trousers aren't as tight any more and I can't tell you how much weight I may have lost, mainly because I don't own scales...

Juneathon has been a great way to force myself to exercise. The fact I have done this for Macmillan has actually made it doable. I would have given up by probably the third day if I didn't have the fundraising incentive.

I may have ached almost every day for a month, but I have raised over £100 and that's something to be proud of.

There's still time to donate: https://www.justgiving.com/Shelby-Juneathon/

Juneathon Day 28: Gross Content

Warning: may contain gross content. 

Today's exercise was done at about 4pm in pyjama bottoms and a sports bra, an attractive start. My curtains were drawn and in the darkness I cleared a space, turned on Spotify and began.

After the Burpees

I did 60 Burpees then after all that, and already sweaty, I did the 10-min Booty Shaking Workout.  During the booty-shaking I began to wish I'd done the the other way around, because when I started the video I had sweat dripping (literally) down my face. 

The order in which I'd done it also meant my legs really ached already and bending my knees for the long period of the video was very difficult. It really helped that the instructor counted down each section. 

After the workout video

Today was painful. Hopefully I am not in more pain later, as I have been, because I am working tonight. 

Two more days left! Still time to sponsor me: https://www.justgiving.com/Shelby-Juneathon/

Juneathon Day 27: Popeye Arms

If you've been reading my journey from the beginning (or even know me as a person) it'll come as a shock to you that today I did 20 push ups! 

You haven't fainted have you?

On the second day of Juneathon I was asked, among other things, to do 50 push ups - I couldn't even manage one. On Day 12 I only managed 5(ish) and yesterday I managed 10 and today 20.

It's a miracle. I am basically Popeye. 

I spent the afternoon (which felt like morning to me) doing... gardening! Not at all as I'd planned my day. It was a fabulous day nonetheless, and my planned exercise was replaced with taming a bush.

That's right, me and my house-mates spent the morning taming our bushes (heh-heh) in the surprisingly beautifully hot weather. The task left all three of us sweaty. The below picture doesn't quite do justice to what we've done:

Basically, that whole wall was covered in bush. With our massive gardening scissors we trimmed the whole thing down using strength we didn't even realise we had. As well as the above picture there were also two rose bushes to the left that were trimmed. 

I didn't quite feel satisfied that I'd done enough though, and as my house-mates are now asleep anything rigorous would be a little tricky. I sat thinking about how strong we were trimming the bushes though and thought, hmm I wonder - can I do more push ups? And I did! 

Tomorrow I have work at 9pm again so will get up and do some exercise tomorrow afternoon (I am staying awake tonight as otherwise my body will be even more confused). 

Just TWO DAYS LEFT! 

Not that I'm excited or anything...

Juneathon Day 24 & 26

Day 25: 

Yesterday I finished work at 7am. I got into bed at 8am and woke up at... 11am. I had three hours sleep! This means in two days I'd had only 5 hours sleep.

Somehow I managed to force myself to clean the bathroom and prepare for a new house-mate to move in, and then I did a workout video I had done before, mainly because I knew it wouldn't hurt until later and I figured I could deal with that. It was probably the easiest workout I could think of to do with no energy at all in me.

Instead of listening to the music and the instructor this time I decided to put on my workout playlist on Spotify. It made me more energetic but made my co-ordination slightly off.

After the exercise I had a quick shower before heading to a meal with my now ex-house-mates - which was lovely. However, I had to go straight to work afterwards and work from 9pm until 5am.

Day 26: 

I have never been so thankful for an early finish, ever. I got out of work just half an hour early at 4.30am.

And... I got 8 hours sleep! It felt amazing.

I had a busy day though, helping my new house-mate settle in. When we'd started relaxing at home I realised I only had an hour until I had to be at work again (9pm-5am shift again) and dashed upstairs to do the days exercise.

I did 60 bicycle crunches, 60 leg raises, crazily 10 push ups (my arms are getting stronger!) and 60 star jumps!

Must dash, or I'll be late for work...