Day 7: BodyHIIT

Today marks a full week since fasting for Ramadan began and I have to say it's been unexpectedly straightforward for me so far. I know I was boasting a bit on day one about how simple it seemed, but deep down I did have some anxiety that there were so many days still ahead of me. Now that my working week is underway and I'm handling it really well, I have complete confidence in my ability to not just survive during Ramadan, but thrive. 

Exercise has been slightly lighter in the past seven days, but tonight I stepped it up again and delivered my most challenging session of the week, BodyHIIT. This session involves high-intensity interval training, with 60 seconds work and 20 seconds rest for about 30 minutes. It's very challenging under normal circumstances, but I definitely had to limit my intensity to deliver this safely - thank you to my six participants on Zoom who worked so hard themselves and excused my lower intensity. I am not sure that I could have delivered that session at full speed. There are three more BodyHIIT sessions to deliver during Ramadan and I don't think this will be an issue for me. Before Ramadan BodyHIIT would be my second workout of the day, but I'm quite happy to just workout once a day during fasting! I'm finding it easy, but I don't want to get silly.

It's my intention now to train at my maximum capacity because I believe I've settled in to my Ramadan rhythm and there's no reason that I shouldn't progress well in all workours and movements that I practise. 

Thank you (again) to everyone who keeps asking how fasting is going as I catch up with them on social media or in sessions. It's lovely to have such strong encouragement, even though Ramadan is so normal for so many millions of people around he world.

I'd actually like to throw out a challenge to anyone who is following my experience daily...I'd like to challenge any reader of this page, or anyone who knows me to complete one day of fasting during Ramadan! Just one day. 

If you fancy experiencing this for yourself for one day, please get in touch and I'll make sure you know exactly what to do and what hours to fast between on that day. Your efforts and support would be highly appreciated by myself and anyone else who you or I know that is fasting too.

You never know, you might even want to do it again!

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