hang ten

I know...I know....it’s been a while since I’ve written anything. The weather has been beautiful here and I spend as much time as I can outside in the sunshine. A couple of weekends ago, Ryan and I took a surfing lesson at the Gold Coast and it was so great! We ended up picking up a used surf board a couple of days later and I can’t wait to take it out and get some practice. It definitely gives you a good core workout, no doubt about that!

I’ve been doing some home workouts lately, trying out the BodyRock.tv routines that go up online every day. It’s 12 mins of intense moves plus they usually have a bonus abs or targeting exercise to do afterwards. I like them but they aren’t enough for me. I miss doing weights in the gym for sure and a little bit of a more lengthy training session. I think it was a good way to find out what I really prefer.

Clumsy me though, had a little accident during my last BodyRock workout. I was in the backyard doing single leg hops and jump squats and on one of the single leg hops I missed the tiles and rolled my ankle onto the grass. I heard a loud snap and was rolling around in pain for a few minutes. Right away my first thought was that I broke it. I’ve sprained my ankles plenty of times in my old soccer days but nothing even close to this has happened. I was able to hobble inside and put it up. The next day I woke up to a golf ball on my ankle bone, went to work and decided at lunch I better get it checked out. Off to the hospital I went, ready to pay the big bucks (health care is not free in Australia). I ended up having it x-rayed and all checked out ok but I badly sprained it of course. Golf balls don’t show up for nothing. That was last Thursday, it’s still swollen and bruised and hurting L Oh and I am fully covered for benefits here because of my work visa so I don’t have to pay a cent J So I’m feeling a little stuck since I can’t really do any exercise involving my feet, I will just suck it up and go to the gym for some upper body...which always make me think of this...