Ah, winter break. The time for holiday baking and sitting around sipping hot chocolate and playing board games by the fire. Sounds like a Hallmark family portrait. I'm all for relaxing, but I'm also trying to stay active to avoid those extra holiday pounds! Okay, and because I have trouble sitting still.
As soon as I arrived in Maine earlier this week, we headed into our woods to get the Christmas tree. I have to say, for all my whining about being all the way up in Maine, it really is beautiful. Wood stove, snow-covered woodsy landscape, and a tree from our own land. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Although I'm not usually a cold-weather girl, I do get a bit restless if I'm sitting around all day so I caved and went snowshoeing with my parents the other day. There's a nice path that goes through the woods, along the river, and back up to the road. In my head I was thinking, it's just like going for a walk but with things attached to your feet, right? Well, I'm embarrassed to say it was a little more of a workout than I was expecting. I was huffing and puffing by the end of the trail and was especially frustrated when I got stuck on a tree trunk and went flying backwards onto my butt.
Woods: 1 Adrienne: 0
Aside from walking in a winter wonderland and snowshoeing, I've been keeping busy with stacking wood (I know, shocking) and planks by the fire. I started a 30-day plank challenge right around the end of finals and I've roped my family into doing it with me. There's a few rest days built in, but basically you do a plank every day and the time increases as you progress. So every afternoon we have "family plank time" where we all find a spot in the living room and do a plank together. I've also tried to balance out the holiday baking by rewarding myself with an exercise every time I have a taste of whatever I'm making. Little bite of dough, ten squats. Another bite of dough, ten pushups.
There's a little too much snow outside to actually go trail running or anything, but I'll brave the cold soon and check out my dad's "gym" set-up in the barn. Gotta keep myself busy up here in the woods! That is, when I'm not wrapping presents, playing with the animals, or reading by the fire.
Merry Christmas!
xo A
As soon as I arrived in Maine earlier this week, we headed into our woods to get the Christmas tree. I have to say, for all my whining about being all the way up in Maine, it really is beautiful. Wood stove, snow-covered woodsy landscape, and a tree from our own land. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Although I'm not usually a cold-weather girl, I do get a bit restless if I'm sitting around all day so I caved and went snowshoeing with my parents the other day. There's a nice path that goes through the woods, along the river, and back up to the road. In my head I was thinking, it's just like going for a walk but with things attached to your feet, right? Well, I'm embarrassed to say it was a little more of a workout than I was expecting. I was huffing and puffing by the end of the trail and was especially frustrated when I got stuck on a tree trunk and went flying backwards onto my butt.
Woods: 1 Adrienne: 0
Aside from walking in a winter wonderland and snowshoeing, I've been keeping busy with stacking wood (I know, shocking) and planks by the fire. I started a 30-day plank challenge right around the end of finals and I've roped my family into doing it with me. There's a few rest days built in, but basically you do a plank every day and the time increases as you progress. So every afternoon we have "family plank time" where we all find a spot in the living room and do a plank together. I've also tried to balance out the holiday baking by rewarding myself with an exercise every time I have a taste of whatever I'm making. Little bite of dough, ten squats. Another bite of dough, ten pushups.
There's a little too much snow outside to actually go trail running or anything, but I'll brave the cold soon and check out my dad's "gym" set-up in the barn. Gotta keep myself busy up here in the woods! That is, when I'm not wrapping presents, playing with the animals, or reading by the fire.
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| Balancing on the left-over tree stump (no longer attached to the ground... much harder than it looks!) |
Merry Christmas!
xo A
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