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The Pilates Board helping me to up my strength game

This year, one of my 52-in-52 goals is to use my Pilates board more regularly. To explain what my Pilates board is, it’s basically a big, thick folding plastic board with rails. You can lean on the arm pads and slide in and out, either together or individually. It also comes with resistance bands and handles that attach at either end.

My folding Pilates reformer board
Credit: Amazon.com.au

It’s an attempt at a convenient home version of a Pilates Reformer board – you know the ones, with the springs and stuff, that look super intense and take up a bunch of room. The ones you’d more likely see in a Pilates studio than at home.

I first bought this board back in May of 2025.…

5 things for Friday (vol. 12)

Last night, Friday night, I grabbed my laptop with the intention of writing this post. And instead, I put it back down, went to bed, and had a much-needed 8-hour sleep.

Let’s take a look at the randomness of this week.

I started making a shadowbox

I’ll write about this more in a 52 wrap-up, but this week I started making my shadowbox. I downloaded a design on Etsy and started cutting it out.

Unfortunately, my Cameo cutter didn’t cut all the way through on some more intricate cuts, so I’m tracing those with my craft knife.

But I started putting the layers together; here’s a sneak preview.

Partially assembled layered paper shadowbox

One watery eye

Does this ever happen to anyone else? I was working out this week on the bike, and only one eye started watering.…

Legs Cooked, Arms Useless, Badge Incoming

Ah… Saturday morning. The temptation to just hang around in your pyjamas instead of doing the workout you’re meant to be doing.

Or maybe that’s just me.

The boys have headed off to the markets, I’ve just booked some flights for a trip later in the year, and I’ve got a hair appointment to get to shortly. There is absolutely no logical reason to be sitting here writing a blog post right now.

And yet.

The cycling badge is trying to kill me

My 52-in-52 badge for this month with iFit is a cycling one called “Let’s Race” – 8 workouts building up to a 16k race at the end. It’s part of the challenge I set myself this year to earn a workout badge every month.…