Day 87 I hear you, sis..

Yes, Saya...being busy is really hitting me at the moment...

I'm working in a shop at the moment and it's a summer sale time..! I've done a few 10-12hour shifts in the past week..with no weekends... I can really feel it right now. I'm very tired physically and I'm not on top of my schedule these days. But, of course, days go on....... Saya, you are right. I think I would never had even noticed how I'm feeling right now a few months ago until I got REALLY ill...!!

I met up with some friends that I haven't seen since March this year, and they were surprised how much weight I've lost!!! hehe!!

To be honest, I wouldn't want to be any skinnier or more muscley than I am now. I am happy with how I look and how it functions right now!! I'm still going to be busy for a while but at least I can feel now that it's not good for me and I want to change it eventually...

Looking forward to seeing you guys on Thursday!!!

Minami

Day 86 Genki again!

Ha! Finally...I'm fine and genki again. I became unwell for a few days last week and from the weekend Minami is not well.. Oh dear :(

I really didn't like this past month- I just didn't feel well at all. Those constant late reheasals for the show in June really killed me physically and mentally. I must change my life style for sure.

Before I started the PCP I didn't even think about how busy I was and just kept going but now I had to realise my life style now wouldn't let me stay healthy. Oh well, what do I expect?! Working 7 days a week would kill anyone...

I did a full on training today at a yoga studio. Got there ealier and use the whole space just for myself. It's just more motivating to have a decent space to do the exercises. Felt a lot stronger than last week! Getting the energy back again. THANK GOD!!

I taught a power yoga class straight after and it REALLY was powerful!! I never enjoyed teaching the class that much. It was just so nice to feel that energy boost again.

4 more days to go!!!!!

あぁー、やっと元気になりました。。。先週具合が悪くなってしまい、そのあとは週末からみなみが具合が悪くなってしまい。。。まったく。

公演準備から始まってこの一ヶ月間、本当に調子が悪かった。とにかくPCPで生活パターンを変えないことにはどうにもならないことがよくわかりました。今のままの生活では健康でさえいられないのです。

そんなことPCPが始まるまでは考えず、ただ走り続けてきたような気がします。

まあ、とにかく一週間一日も休みのないような生活を続ければ誰だって病気になりますね。。。

今日はヨガのクラスを教える前に、少し早めに行ってスペースを独り占めしながらトレーニングをしました！あー、やっぱり広々スペースを使ってエクササイズができるとモチベーションが全然違う！！先週へろへろになっていたことを思うと、また身体にエネルギーが沸いてきたぞー！！という感じでとってもよかった。安心しました。

そのあとパワーヨガのクラスを教えたのですが、そりゃーパワフルでした(笑）力がみなぎる感じで、とても楽しみながら教えさせてもらいました。幸せ。

エネルギーがまた身体の中にもどってきた感じ、うんうん。

あと4日！！！！

saya

Boy or girl??

I'm here, Patrick!!

Yes sorry for being lame and not write for a looooong time.

And yes, my long hair down to my waist is now all gone!!!! Feels great!! I love the fact it doesn't get caught in the skipping rope and I love it when my sweat gathers at the tip of my hair on my neck. ;p

I had half a day off today for the first time in a while. Waited until the rain stops and I've just went outside to do some skipping rope. As it's nice and warm, I was wearing a vest top with a baggy trackie bottom. With my short hair, I'm sure lots of people thought I was a guy who is on a fitness training and has lost a lot of fat and gained a lot of mustles successfully, and now working on his man-boobs, the last and the worst enemy of his!! Who knows... well, I got stared at by lots of children. They don't know how to pretend that they can't see it even if there is something weired or unsusual like adults... and they don't know when to look away..!!!

So group training tomorrow? At 11am?

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Minami x

Day 78 Ayurveda massage :)

今日からやっとエクササイズ再開。まだ首は痛みますが、このままじゃＰＣＰ終わっちゃうという焦りから始めてしまいました。とても理想的なコンディションとは言えませんが、今日４日ぶりに再開したことで、少しだけ気持ちは楽になったようです。筋肉は完全に落ちました。残念。。。まあでも、今回のことで、人間の健康のもろさに気づかされ、気をつけなければ、という自分自身へのいい教訓になりました。健康に痩せながら、いい質の筋肉をつけるためには、生活のリズムを根っこから整えなくてはならないのですね。

I started exercising again today. Unfortunately my neck still hurts but I thought if I left it longer the PCP will be over so I decided to start. It was far away from an ideal condition but I feel much better mentally. My muscles were smaller and weaker... I could feel it :( What a shame...but this has taught me how fragile one's health condition could be when you don't pay enough attention to it. If you want to loose weight and gain good quality muscles you definitely should look into your whole life style.

そんな中、今日はアーユルヴェーダのマッサージをしてもらいに行ってきました。

今の自分の状態について説明したわけでもないのに、まんまと私の問題点があばかれてしまいました。

しかも恐ろしいくらい的中。

ＰＣＰとアーユルヴェーダ、まったく違うアプローチだというのに、指摘してくる点はまったく同じ。

ライフスタイルの見直し、もっと大きく言えばどういう風に生きていきたいのか、そんなことをＰＣＰもアーユルヴェーダも私に問いかけているように思います。

With this condition I went to take an Ayurveda massage session today.

I didn't explain what I was going through physically and mentally to her at all but she knew what was wrong with me after the massage.

It was actually quite scary to see how much she knew about me.

The PCP and Ayurveda...two very different approach to my body yet what they both taught me were extremely similar.

Both of them are encouraging me to re look into my life style and more importantly I feel they are both asking me how I want to live the rest of my life.

Hmmm, the PCP has started affecting me much deeper than I imagined.

saya

Day 77 my neck hurts!

 My neck seems to be getting worse and I can't move... Rrrraaaa!!! It's really frustrating!!!!!!

We've only got less the 2 weeks now and I can't move.

It's been hurting over 10 days now.　I have absolutely no idea WHY it's hurting so there's nothing I can do to fix it...

首がよくならない！今朝も痛みます。何だか日に日に悪くなってきちゃってる。

もうフラストレーションがたまりにたまる。もう２週間きってるのに。。。

動けない。エクササイズができない。

もういたくなり始めてから１０日以上たっているのです。

原因がわからないから治せないし。

I've stopped the exercises since friday. I know it's my imagination but I feel like I'm loosing the muscles slowly and my body feels heavier. 

Oh well, I can only pray that it's gonna be better as soon as possible and and enjoy the rest of the 90days :(

It's just extremely annoying after trying so hard for 7

エクササイズも金曜日からストップしてます。これは恐らく焦る私の思い込みなんだけど、何だかちょっとづつ筋肉が落ちて、身体も重く感じる。

まあ、もうただよくなることを願うしかないな。

せっかく今までがんばってきたのに。。。

saya

Day74 my apartment

今日も朝がゆっくりだったので、朝一で駐車場での縄跳び。

今日は昨日の小さな女の子の隣に住む、やはり同じ位の歳の女の子がうれしそぉーにこちらを見ていました。かわいい笑顔、何よりの応援です。

I had a late start again today so the usual parking area skipping rope this morning. Then there was a little girl looking out her window, smiling. Not the same girl as yesterday but a girl who lives next to her. She was staring at me with such a cute smile. It was such a support ;)

以前ＰＣＰに対する不満をブログでぶちまけたときに、うちのアパートがどれだけＰＣＰに適していないか、ということも書きました。ほんとにほんとに小さなアパートなんです。最初引っ越してきたときに、父が私の部屋の窓を外から見て、「なにあれ、廊下？」と言ったのが忘れられません。いやいや、あれが私の部屋だよ。

そんなんでエクササイズをするスペースを見つけるのも一苦労。

でもさすがにもう慣れて、うまくいろいろ利用しながらやってます。中でもロフトに行くためのことはしごは結構便利です。エクササイズによって、引っ掛ける場所の高さが変えられますから(笑）　それにしてもこの写真の肩筋・・・来てますね。

When I wrote down my frustration towards the PCP in my blog before, I mentioned how inappropriate my apartment was for some of the PCP exercises. My apartment is REALLY small. When I first moved in here I remember my dad was looking at the main window of my room and said "what is it? Is is your corridor??" ... no, dad, that's the whole flat ;(

So you could imagine how difficult it could be to find a space to do some exercises, right? But it's day 74 so I'm so used to this. Particularly this ladder to the loft space is very useful. I can change the height of a place where I fix the band!

By the way look at my shoulder muscles in this picture! Haha, I'm officially MR Tamagawa now!!

saya

Day73 tired??

まだ首が痛いんで、かずさんに治療をしてもらいに行ってきました。見ていただいた結果、怪我、というわけではなく、コリのひどいの。この３週間緊張しっぱなしだったので（苦笑）

しかし、かずさんに腰から揉んでもらってびっくり！！いててててててぇ～っとなってしまいました。

「あ～背中全体かなりかたまったね」と言いながら、いつものように修理をしてくれるかずさん。

My neck still hurt so went to see Kazu-san for a treatment today. He said it wasn't a injury but it was extremely stiff. Well, I was constantly nervous and stressed for the whole 3 weeks ;(

But it was absolutely shocking! It hurt soooooooooooo much!!

怖いのは、かずさんに触ってもらって初めてこんなに身体が疲れて悲鳴をあげていることに気づいたこと。こんなに固まってるなんて予想もしてなかった。

what's scary was that until he touched me today I didn't know my body was screaming out for a proper rest this badly. I had no idea my body was this messed up!

かずさんの言葉は印象的でした。

「まあ、これで身体が疲れてるって自覚するから、補修してよくなろうとし始めるよ」と。

頑張って、頑張って、頑張って走り続けて努力をするのも時には大事。

でも、そこにきちんとした食事、運動、休憩がちゃんと組み込まれてないと、結局こうやって故障しちゃう。そんな調子では努力も続かないわけで。

初心にもどるいい機会になりました。

"Now your body has recognised that you are tired so it will start fixing itself"

says Kazu-san.

We all need to keep pushing ourselves to achieve something in life sometimes but if there's no proper diet, exercises and resting we can't avoid to collapse in the end...like I have:(

It was a good lesson.

もうＰＣＰ終了まで本当にあとわずか。正直少し焦りの気持ちや寂しい気持ちも出てきました。

でもこんなときだからこそもう一度心も頭も身体もリセットして、残された日々を充実させたいです。

We've only god a little bit left till we complete the PCP. I have to admit that I've started to feel anxious about finishing it and missing it already. But I'd like to refresh my mind and body and really enjoy the rest of it :)

saya

Day 72 new friend

長ーい間ご無沙汰してしまい、申し訳ありません。

おとといまで本番があり、この３週間一日も休みがありませんでした。

大忙し。PCP始まって以来一番忙しく、正直体力は持たないは、寝てないから精神的にも落ちるわで結構つらい数週間を送ってました。

でもそれもおとといで終わり。この2日間はこれでもかっというほど寝て、ゆっくりと体力を取り戻しつつあります。

しかしなぜか首を痛めてしまい、あまり自由に動かせないのです。

でも、まっすぐにしている限り問題ないので、変なぐらいいい姿勢で縄跳びしてます（笑）

Sorry that I've been away for such a long time!! Terrible... but I had some shows till sunday so had no day off for 3 weeks... urgh.  Stuck in the rehearsals till midnight everyday last week. Not good.  I'd been the busiest since I started the PCP. Had not much sleep so it was physically and mentally very challenging. But the shows went well and I slept loads for the last two days so I'm getting my usual self slowly...

I've hurt my neck though somehow so I can't move it very much.

But it doesn't affect the PCP exercises too badly so I'm keeping up with the skipping rope with a weirdly "good" posture ;)

今日は近くの駐車場で縄跳びをしました。

すると近くに住む２歳くらいの女の子が窓からのぞき、「ママー、なんであの人縄跳びしてのー？？」と叫んでいます。

なのでにっこり微笑みかけながら飛びました。

そしてつまずいてしばらく止まってしまうと、「あれー、とまんないで！」と言ってくれます。思わぬオーディエンスに思わずモチベーションがあがったのでした。

I did the skipping rope in a car park near by this morning.

There was a little girl looking at me from her window screaming 'Mum!! Why is she doing a skipping rope?!"

so I tried not to scare her and kept smiling at her while I was jumping.

Every time I tripped and stopped jumping she would say 'oh, don't stop! keep going!!'

Having this unexpected audience was a real motivation ;)

これは最近はまってるヘルシアの炭酸バージョン。

脂肪の燃焼を助けてくれるそうで。

おいしいです。試してみて！

This is a drink that I'm into at the moment.  Apparently it helps to burn fat and it's tasty.

Try!

saya

Day 58 飛行機雲

今日、縄跳びをみんなでしていたらいきなりそとでものすごい音がしたので、みんなでバルコニーに出てみたら飛行機が4機飛行機雲で大きな円を空に描いていました！！今日は横浜開港記念で、エアショーのようなものをやっていたんです。急いでカメラを取りに行ったけど早過ぎて飛行機の様子は残念ながら逃しましたが、飛行機雲には間に合いました。

lovely sunny day today.when we were jumping ropes, we heard a big noise outside. all of us ran to the balcony and there were four airplains drawing big circles in the sky with the smoke! it was for the anniversary for the Yokohama port.

ごめんなさい。PCPブログとんとご無沙汰してしまっていました。。実は、ここ一週間風邪をひいてしまい、エクササイズもストップして食事も(健康なものを！)食べたいだけ食べていました。まだ鼻はでるのですが(笑)だいぶ回復しました！やっぱりひさしぶりのワークアウトはキツイ！でも、そのpainがけっこう好きだったりする筋肉オタクぎみな私。

i haven't been keeping the blog for a while.. sorry, saya-chan! i've had a cold for over a week.. so i've stopped the pcp exercise and pcp diet for a week (i have still been watching my food though!) so today's workout session was tough..! im going to be sore tommorow! but it was lovely to see everyone and, although it was painful, i loved the fact we counted and screamed together! hehe.. they make me laugh so much that i think im gaining extra abs!!

今日はひさしぶりに全員そろってワークアウト！やっぱりみんなでやると楽しく出来るし、みんなで悲鳴をあげながら号令を掛け合うのが面白くて、笑っちゃって腹筋もエクストラでつく気がします！！
さぁ、今日からひさびさに一週間のダンスのワークショップをうけにいきます！PCPでつけた筋肉とスタミナを存分に楽しんできます！


im doing a week-long dance workshop starting today. im really looking forward to try out my new muscles and stamina!