Hannah Louise Swift

Day 16 consisted of just 1 class, i figured after nearly killing myself last night I better take it easy and just do body vive.  So I grabbed a ball, band thingy and mat and found my space. I got ushered to the front as apparently ‘i knew what i was doing’. Vive has some funky tunes including Bobby Brown, Copa Cabana, actually its a great mix of tunes from high pumping songs to relaxing in the tai chi number.

I picked up the red band, which is the mid strength one, but noticed a few new people at the back with blue ones (the devils bands) so kindly swapped… BIG mistake. Di changed the routines making everything twice as hard, and there is me with the hardest ruddy band. Oh well, I gave it a good go!

I also noticed when getting changed a massive inappropriate hole appearing in my gym leggings, DOH! This meant some quite uncomfortable fidgeting to make sure nobody saw anything ‘private’.

I stupidly just wasted all my efforts though with a curry and chips! Oops! Off to bed now though!

Just to prove my attendance (bear in mind it isnt updated for today yet)

Day 15 started at 6pm with my final induction in the gym, and no, I still haven’t been in there apart from for inductions and the odd row. The power plates were my final induction. The power plates are basically machines that vibrate. So you stand or sit in certain poses to activate a muscle and then the machine works it by vibrating. I was showed  few positions and gave it a good go but when it came to the abs and sitting down on the machine, it was a no no… The vibrations straight up the arse hole did not feel good, so i quickly jumped off.

Next down to the pool for a few lengths, I didn’t do my usual 20, i was 2 short at 18 lengths, a nice soak in the jacuzzi and i was ready for the next session. (I better point out I twisted by back during the day and couldn’t walk properly, hence the 2 less on the swim and the long jacuzzi.)

Next up was body combat this time with Dan. I had never met Dan before and unlike Di, he didn’t introduce himself, check I was doing ok etc etc,  instead he chose to focus on the regulars leaving a few of us struggling at the back. The only good thing was that he was breathing heavily and sweating after the first few numbers. He also chose to show off a little with the height he could get his legs when kicking and arms when punching… This is all well and good if we were all experts, but we were not.

An hour later and a 5 minute break to fill up my water and breathe before body pump. Thank god I saw Di come in the room not someone else. I knew i was in safe hands! I was wrong! Di wasn’t letting me get away with anything, she kept making me up my weights! I was waining as everything was hurting! I managed to get through the hour and afterwards Di pulled me to one side, she had noticed the discomfort I had been in, even when I was hiding right at the back! I Explained a few of the moves gave me crippling neck and headaches as I tense my shoulders. So she gave me some tips and some new techniques to try next week! Rock on Di! You legend!

I left the gym at just about 10pm. I have eaten, but can barely move. I sense pain tomorrow. I am feeling rather dead, so mum, look after Monkey, and make sure my rocks and books on rocks are kept safe!

It’s been nice knowing you all! Hee hee!

The night started with another session of  Aqua, 10 lengths of various swimming exercise’s were followed by leg lifts in the water… Apparently I can get my legs to 90 degrees which is something new! Then we were made to run in the water around the pool… Ouch! This really hurt my canckles, which had already been hurting today! The youth club was in the jacuzzi watching us bob around – I’d like to see them do what we do! I also managed to wear a swimming cossy that was a little too revealing for my liking, so I skipped a few exercises (well, the harder versions).

A quick steam, shower, change and up to Jam!

Di changed the bloody routine again! Plenty of new people but I still managed to get my spot at the back (no mirrors) and some how managed to avoid being the biggest plonker in the room! Tonight’s Jam was mainly Hip Hop and let’s just say I didn’t carry the ‘big girl’ hip hop moves as well as ‘Martha Cox from High School Musical‘. A few more dances later and it was time to leave. Everything hurt!

I went to Tesco to get a few bits and bobs and some cat food, came home, ate, collapsed and now its time to drag myself upstairs to bed. Ouch.

I got sent this pic by my buddy Keith earlier today and I have to say, this is my dream! Working underwater! Get my lappy top hooked up and waterproof and I would quite happily blog all day everyday! I know a few other mates who would be up for it too – Frostie! – Let’s be the first under water bloggers!

If you can take your ipod phone wassit diving to watch films and listen to tunes you must be able to take a lappy top down and do some blogging!

I had the pleasure of my mate Tom coming to visit this weekend. He is half of the famous ‘Team Fun’ which consists of Tom, Lee, Nim Nim and Me!

The festivities began with me picking up Tom at the station at about 3.30pm. Straight back to mine to introduce him to Monkey and to let him loose on my beer collection. I decided to cook something Caribbean to remind us both of our adventures in Barbados, so I got out one of the packets of flavouring I bought when out there. A few peppers, mushrooms and onions and it smelt good. Luckily I had some sour cream in, because although the food smelt great it blew your head off when you tried to eat it. Luckily Tom has a great sense of humour, and despite lashings of sour cream, lime and beer, we both gave up on the salt riddled spicy food.

Outside was blowing a storm so we decided to get a taxi into town, starting off in Mutley Plain. There are no pictures of the first section of the evening as my camera was out of batteries! A quick trip into the Co-Op and the singing cashier handed me 8 batteries! It was “you buy one, you get one free” Whilst in Mutley we had a stop in a pub (can’t remember the name) which was awesome. We soon put the world straight and it was time to move on. The next pub was the pub with ‘toilet cam’ – basically TV screen with revolving CCTV camera pictures including the mens and ladies toilets. Toilet cam is fascinating the longer you leave it through the night. The cheesey dance came on and I was summoned to leave.

Whilst outside waiting for a taxi we discovered a bar we very nearly took a diversion too had a bit of trouble. Apparently some guy had given the barmaid some grief and then took a wee all over the floor next to the bar. Nice!!!

So a short taxi ride later and we hit Varsity for more booze and a large amount of vodka jelly shots! I manged to get the ol’ camera fired up and many pictures were taken! By this point Uncle Roger was beginning to make his appearance felt. We decided to leave the youth club and head to Reflex!

Reflex included lots more booze, plenty more shots including sambucca (most of mine ended up in Tom’s pint – i bloody hate that stuff) We threw some shapes and Uncle Roger was in full flow! I got to the bar where i got us both a souvenir of the evening, for Tom a sparkly red cowboy hat and for me some over sized sunglasses. Now the party began. Tom was quite a hit amongst the local ladies and can be found on random photos throughout the internet I am quite sure. We headed for the revolving dancefloor, and it gets hazy after there!

I decided to show Tom the real highlights of Plymouth so took him to ‘Jesters’  nightclub I have visited before and found myself stuck to the floor. Jesters had its regular supply of pissed up blokes looking for any bit of skirt, and even I got a verey generous offer to ditch Tom and head back to his mates house for a party… I tried arguing the point that Tom also knew how to party, but alas I missed out on this most excellent offer.

After being amused by the guy fast asleep on the dancefloor, we headed for a kebab (possibly the worst I have ever had, I even gave it back to them in disgust. We got a cab home, and this beauty was taken…

I cannot believe I put this up, but some people didn’t believe I had bad pictures!

Anyway, we got home and I headed straight to bed, I say headed, it was more staggered… I left Tom behind sat on the floor with Monkey. A few minutes later and I could hear content snoring… Not long after that some door slamming, then a stagger up the stairs, into my room and he held the duvet down and said night night, almost suffocating me!

During the early hours of the morning I heard a scream followed by “Oh dear God no, Please nooo”in a thick Whitby accent. It scared the living daylights out of me but less than a minute later the snoring came back. I then heard “Argh” which apparently was Monkey licking his elbow. After a wake up call at 7.30am as I had forgotten to turn my alarm off i finally got some sleep!

Tom woke up first and I was greeted by a very chipper “morning”. I slowly grimaced my way downstairs and began working on a nice fry up! Feeling a little better after a plate full of grease we headed out for a whistle stop tour of Plymouth which included the moors, the Hoe and Cap’n Jaspers. My driving isn’t the greatest and I have discovered I have serious lane issues which Tom bore witness too. Apologies for that dude! It was soon time to say bye to Tom and

I promptly came home and napped! A great weekend! Can’t wait for the next one!