Day 77 – Week 11 – 11 mins
And so I make it to the end of Week 11 – and it feels a long way to go until I reach Week 52.
I’d be lying if I said it is getting easier, that it feels as natural as breathing, that I can’t imagine living without exercise – all things I’d love to be able to say. If anything, it is harder than when I first started, because it is much easier to convince yourself to do something that only lasts one minute, than it is to do something that lasts 11. So, I can only hope that one day I WILL find it easy, that I am bursting with this irrepressible energy to put my body to work.
And what if it never happens? What if I find it this hard, or even harder to keep sticking to the plan? What if, after a whole year of this, it feels like nothing has changed, and I look and feel exactly as I did before I started? Could that actually happen?
Only one way to find out I guess….if you are doing this with me – then stick with it. I don’t want to be the only crazy one trying to make it to day 365!
Suzi
Day 73 – Week 11 – 11 mins
It was hard work this morning. I had to stop and have a little rest halfway through my strength routine. Why is it that just when you feel like you are getting somewhere, you then feel like you’re taking a step backwards?
I cannot emphasise how much being accountable to someone is what keeps me going on this challenge. I would almost go as far as saying it is impossible to do it, without someone or something to answer to, like a blog. Without that, it is just far too easy to give yourself the day off. No-one will know, and you can always come up with a reason not to do it. I don’t know how long that lasts. I’m hoping that at some stage, I get that adrenaline rush that some people seem to get from exercise, and that will be enough to sustain me. Otherwise I may have to blog on this topic for the rest of my life!
If you want to be accountable, use this blog to do so. Comment every day if you need to – but have someone to answer to. I am convinced it is the only way to make it happen,
Suzi
Day 8 – Week 2 – 2 mins
Well – that is a milestone. We have made it all the way to week 2 without losing a single day of exercise.
I know, I know, it’s all very easy at this stage. We’re only doing a minute or two of jigging about – you can’t call that proper exercise, you say. And you are right. But I tell you – if I had told myself I had to do half an hour of exercise every day for a week, I sincerely doubt I would have managed it. This way, I am learning to deal with all my resistance, all my excuses, all the million and one ways I’ve managed to get out of exercise in the past BEFORE it gets hard, BEFORE I lose the will to live at the thought of having to get hot and sweaty for half an hour.
Does that make some kind of sense?
Believe me – this habit of getting up and exercising first thing in the morning has to be well and truly ingrained before I get a chance to wimp out at the tough stuff.
So today. Two minutes of arm exercises with the mini medicine ball, and my work was done. How did you go?
Suzi
