Day 180 – Week 26 – 26 mins
I had to go out fairly early this morning, so I figured I’d do my exercise when I got home in the afternoon.
I was back in the house about 2.00pm, and was desperate for something to eat, so made myself some lunch. Then, I settled down with my laptop to do some work and wait for my food to digest.
At about half past seven, I realised it was time to start cooking dinner and was about to get up and get started…when I remembered….I HAD NOT DONE MY EXERCISE. This is what went through my head:
1) Oh no – I haven’t done my exercise
2) Oh well – it’s too late now – it’s dinner time
3) Wait! I’m not allowed to just say ‘it’s too late now’. I have to do it every day. I have to blog!
4) Maybe I can just pretend I didn’t remember
5) But then I would have to say on the blog I didn’t do it. And it would bugger up my perfect record.
6) But it’s TOO LATE to exercise
7) Well – you should have remembered earlier. How could you have forgotten?
Because I usually do it in the morning, and so I just don’t think about it in the afternoon.
9) Well then, you better get that exercise gear on.
10) Do I really have to?
11) Yes. Remember it’s the one thing you have to do every single day.
So I did. But did you see how crafty that brain is? For a moment there, I almost convinced myself to pretend I hadn’t remembered. If it wasn’t for you lot watching, I would have got away with it.
Suzi
Day 170 – Week 25 – 25 mins (10)
Now today was one of those days when I really should have stuck to my rules and done exercise FIRST THING in the morning. Instead, I decided to enjoy lounging about in bed, doing some interneting, catching up with a few people on facebook – always with the intention of doing it later.
But then – I suddenly had a conference call that went on longer than it should of, I had a writing job that had to be done immediately, so it was lunch time before I finally got into my exercise gear.
Then ten minutes into it, I got a phone call I had to take. And then I had to make another phone call, and then I had to race out and meet some friends from Australia I hadn’t seen for years.
So – all in all – I was actually lucky to get that ten minutes in at all. But you see, how easy it is to lose the plot if you don’t do it first thing in the morning, even when you think you have all day to do it? You’d think I’d have figured that out by now…but sometimes, the lure of that nice warm bed is just impossible to resist. Fight it girl, fight it!
Suzi
Day 88 – Week 13 – 13 mins
Given I have only been averaging about five hours sleep a night for the last few nights (kind of self-inflicted in that I have been studying until late every night after work), this morning my body decided it had had enough of being dragged out of bed before six o’clock.
So – I allowed myself a bit of a sleep in, and could very, very easily have stayed there all day. According to my schedule, today was a day when I was supposed to go outside for a run, but once it gets past about 7.30, there is so much traffic, running outside is not the pleasant experience it should be. So as you can imagine, I lay there worrying about how late it was getting and being tempted to give up on the whole idea – and in the end, I guess I did. I decided that it was too late to go outside, and compromised with a session on the bosu instead.
It was still pretty difficult to get up, but I forced myself to remember that consistency is the key, and ended up having quite a good session. But it’s oh so easy to give in to the argument that missing ‘just one day’ won’t make a difference…..I’m not sure how long I can keep up the stern talk to myself before I just put my hands over my ears and refuse to listen.
But for now, I will celebrate making it through another day….
Suzi
Day 84 – Week 12 – 12 mins
Well – technically I didn’t manage to do my exercise this morning. It was about 1.00 in the afternoon before I finally got myself outside to go for a jog. But – it was still the first thing I did after getting up properly. (Yes, yes, it was quite a Sunday lie-in!)
And wouldn’t you know it! After it being a lovely morning, I step outside in my exercise gear, finally ready to go and there’s a smattering of big fat drops of rain. Oh, it would have been so easy to turn around and go back inside at that moment – and if I didn’t know you were waiting in the wings to see whether I would crumble – I probably would have done. But instead I braved the tropical weather, and took off anyway.
And a good thing I did. Despite some ominous looking clouds, there was no more rain, and I was home 10 minutes later, pretty much dry. Did my two minutes of stretching and breathed a sigh of relief that I had once again thwarted the Devil of Resistance.
Thirteen minutes tomorrow…
Suzi
Day 25 – Week 4 – 4 mins
Aha – the push up idea is spreading. One of my near and dear has decided he likes the idea of the pushup challenge as well. And as he has underfloor heating in the bathroom, he has decided that is the best place to partake in this particular form of exercise. I can see that being a reasonable incentive for keeping on with the push up challenge in the winter, when it is that much harder to get out of bed.
He says he did his four push ups this morning without it costing a great deal of effort, and is well primed to do more as our weeks progress. Lets hope the enthusiasm continues!
As for me – 4 minutes on the bosu and all is well and right with the world. I love knowing that I never need worry about having to form an exercise plan again, as it is all in hand and I am on track. Each day just seems to take care of itself now, as long as I get myself out of bed and into those exercise clothes. After that it is easy. Believe me – that really is the hard part. And you should listen to me, because I HATE EXERCISE, and somehow, I seem to be doing it! How about you? Are you struggling to do this each and every morning? If so – let us know what it is that is stopping you. I’ll bet we can find a way around that particular excuse or resistance, and make it happen.
Suzi
