For most of us going out for a run is our chance to escape and we don't need a lot of encouragement to go and do it......fitness sessions or strength workouts at home are another thing however.

With this in mind the group decided that they would like to do a Zoom fitness session, hoping that seeing each other's faces and being together would make a fitness session more enjoyable than having to go it alone.

We agreed on 6:30, our usual group run time and that's when we all got together on Zoom and were soon seeing each other's smiling faces...except Andrea's who couldn't get past the bouncer at the entrance....."You're name's not on the list love, you can't come in!" After slipping him a bribe the 13 of us were finally together.

We did a little warm up of glute bridges, hamstring slides...those who had surfaces that were slide friendly...others like Laura improvised y using books to slide along carpet...where there's a will, (and a bit of imagination) there's a way!

The first challenge for the group was to try and complete the Bring Sally up challenge....A song by Moby called Flowers....where everytime the song said bring Sally UP you moved up and held that until the song said bring Sally down, then you held a the bottom. The options were, push ups or kneeling push ups or squats....none of them were pleasant options and it was a really hard challenge. I know doing the push up version I had to switch to kneeling ones and have a few breaks too...

After that we moved on to play some card games....where drawing a card with a heart meant we'd do mountain climbers, x2. So a 6 ♡ meant 12 mountain climbers. ♣ meant the number x2 in hip tap planks ♠ meant the number in lunges ♢ meant the number x2 in on the spot skips

Drawing the joker meant 10 burpees and drawing a face card meant 10 jumping jacks...

We didn't do a single lunge....and towards the end when we were getting tired we suddenly managed to draw a couple of jokers!!!

It was lovely to see everyone live and get our sweat on together again like in pre-lockdown days! We may have to do this a bit more regularly.

For next week's challenge we are back to running again! Stay tuned to find out what it will be.