Day 248 – Week 36 – 36 mins (20)
I am really struggling with the ‘getting up and exercising before doing anything else’ part of this experiment at the moment. I don’t know if it’s the cold, or the fact it’s the end of the year, or if I’ve just lost my motivation.
But this morning I made myself do it. I didn’t do my full 36 minutes, but I did 20, which wasn’t too bad. But the good thing was, I did it first thing on waking up. And when I got back in bed with my cup of tea after a shower, I remembered how good it felt to get some exercise out of the way early.
The fact that I’m finding it so difficult though, gives me new respect for those people who do this every day for years, in the pursuit of some sporting goal or another. When you think of swimmers who are in the pool at 5.00 every morning for an hour or two every day during their teenage years, or athletics hopefuls who train every day. It is a huge thing to motivate yourself to do it, and I would so love to have their fierce determination.
All I have to do it get up and get moving, it can’t be so hard….
Suzi
Day 245 – Week 36 – 36 mins (10)
After my great start to the week yesterday, today’s performance was very lacklustre. Only ten mins of stretching and strengthening.
I am obviously quite bored with all this exercise business now that I have reached the tough end of it all. And it’s Christmas! The last thing I want to be doing is thinking about health and well-being.
Any suggestions on keeping the motivation up?
Suzi
Day 188 – Week 27 – 27 mins (2)
Again, nothing more than a minimalist contribution to my general fitness and health today, with two minutes of stretching/strengthening.
I’ll be back on track properly tomorrow, and least for a couple of days.
Suzi
Day 185 – Week 27 – 27 mins
Oh, I did not feel like going for a run this morning. No particular reason – I was just very comfortably working away on my laptop in bed, and could quite happily have stayed there all day. My defence for this attitude is that Winston Churchill used to work a lot from bed, and he did all right for himself!
But eventually, I couldn’t fight the guilt any longer, and I got myself up and dressed. Of course, the run itself wasn’t that bad once I was out there, in fact it was quite pleasant.
And it is a good thing I went. The next three days are going to be hellish, with very long days at work and no opportunity to go out for a run at lunch time. I will be leaving the house at 6.30 every morning, so I suspect I will only manage around ten minutes of jigging about each day before I go.
So be warned – there’ll be no activity records broken here over the next few days!!
Suzi
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
