My goal was 30/60 and to learn to love planks. My rule for the challenge was resting immediately for 1 set of 8 every time I would feel like giving up or was starting to lose form, instead of throwing in the towel. I brought my weights on a family holiday and stayed committed also through hosting in laws. What happened is that after the first part of the challenge I decided to try and not rotate the classes too much and do them more and less in the order of the board. This slowed me down a bit but I still am glad I did it because I tended to avoid 60 min and the plank heavier classes before. I have certainly gained more upper-body strength than I thought I would. During this challenge I also managed to attend my first live finally. A plank class!
Last week I beat the office planking record at work and it gave me such a boost. I credit M/Body entirely for that! Over all it was really good to have a goal, a structure for my summer workouts and though I didnt reach the 30/60 that I wanted I am content. 'There are no solutions, only tradeoffs' has been the mantra of this summer and what I have gained matters more at this point than the numbers on the board. Super grateful for Marnie's guidance and for the awesome community 💜

1. Do at least 30/60. If I manage 45 it will be an added bonus. I am on vacation with family but packed my weights, and am excited to use them! A year ago I felt intimidated by every arm series and did all of them without weights, but now they're my favorite.

2. Which brings me to my next goal, which is to get to the same place with planks and push ups. I will do it the same way, meaning, I give in and rest when Im at the point of losing the form. And that rest means one set.

3. Prioritizing the right macros in my meals to feel energized and stable throughout the day bloodsugar-wise with less sweet cravings. This is, consciously, an ongoing project supervised by a nutritionist since a couple months back.

What are you favorite m/body classes during pms or period cramps? Am browsing through but would love some ideas. Take care all!

I did 40 out of 60 and its a big improvement since last challenge! This has been wonderful honestly and Ive surprised myself by looking forward to the weights part...? And not shying away from push ups and jumps! The fact that modifications are always an option gives such a feeling of permission, which is grounding, and ends up making space for improvement!

The wellness activities also really spoke to me and in addition to what I wrote last time I actually went for it and cut my hair short! Been wanting to do it for years. Goodbye pandemic stress hair and medicine induced weight, you dont serve me anymore, bye 😊

Its been a joy following all of you along the journey of moving into spring and more light and warmth day by day... looking forward to the next challenge!

Ive been catching up on wellness activities. Cleared out expired stuff from my cupboards, cosmetic and skincare drawers and unfollowed about 200 accounts on IG 😂 Some of them were about parenting and cooking actually, which I used to love reading but lately realized they tend to be giving me guilt... Im just not always planning expensive adventures or cooking elaborate meals and thats FINE. What has remained on my feed apart from friends, family and M/Body is travel and cute animal photography, history bites, some cafes I have good memories from, a little bit of vanity 💅 and art. Contemplating now a spring haircut. Stopped spending money on coffee to go which was a habit. Eating apples. There is definitely a little internal spring cleaning going on 🌿

To eat better breakfast. Ive prepared overnight oats for the next few days... second goal is to do more of the jumps!