52 Exercises: How One Woman Dared to Deal With a Mid-Life Crisis
52 Exercises is a quest to fight depression, middle-age and boredom by challenging myself, getting fit and trying a new exercise every week in 2013. Like me this series is a work in progress that welcomes your feedback.
I announced the 52 Exercises quest as way to tackle a mid-life crisis with the byline:”52 Exercises: How One Woman Dared
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I’m wearing a bikini, a sun hat and sunglasses. I enter the pool gingerly even though it’s hot outside and the water is warm too. I sink in slowly and then swim,
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It wasn’t a real dance show. Just our small dance class of five women performing for our
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As we drive off to a gym in the Noosa hinterland where professional Muay Thai boxers train and where we’ll be joining them for a training session I feel curiously
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The end of the year is nigh and my ever truthful Bowen therapist says I am tired. It’s not a comment on the way I look but a factual statement.
“I wonder
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Now the 52 Exercises Quest is almost over I feel the need to up the ante. There are all kinds of exercises I could do like learning the high trapeze at Circus
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Slacklining’s been described as a cross between tightrope walking and trampolining which makes it sound impossibly hard. But when I saw someone slacklining
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Last time I saw the Pilates instructor Sandra was in a Toastmasters class. That was a few years ago when I was improving myself by learning how
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Scott’s clients are a loyal bunch. They show up to his outdoor fitness classes at 5.30am come rain or shine. They’re a lot more dedicated than me because
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Fun run always seemed to be an oxymoron to me. You know, one of those phrases with contradictory elements like deafening silence, living dead or open
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Sometimes my heart sinks at the thought of the weekend stretching ahead with all three children at home, the house a mess and work piling up. But
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Harare looks beautiful in October with the jacaranda trees in bloom. Purple blossom against deep blue skies, floating down onto the dusty red earth.
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It’s 8am on Saturday morning and I’ve just arrived at the gym to try Sh’bam which is billed as a fun, sociable dance class. I love dancing and want to inject
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Everything feels rushed, stressful and anxiety-ridden. I’m not depressed any more but I can feel the black dog is there, snapping at my heels. Daily meditation
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Only mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun but we don’t have a choice. My brother Tom who’s visiting from England wants to join me on on
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