Day 146 – Week 21 – 21 mins (15)
Well – am gradually improving on my cardio days, managed 15 of my 21 minutes today. With a bit of luck I will be back on track properly next week.
But – I have a new challenge. This afternoon I fly to Berlin for work for two weeks. I will be in a new environment, a slightly unpredictable work schedule, and work colleagues who can drink me under the table! It will indeed be interesting to see if I can manage to keep this going, no doubt with some days where I only manage the minimum.
But as usual – the aim is to do SOMETHING every day, even if is not the full quota….
I may also have patchy internet access…so forgive me if you get a few posts all at once, and nothing for a couple of days…
Wish me luck,
Suzi
Day 145 – Week 21 – 21 mins
I managed to drag it out until about 3.00pm before getting myself into gear and getting on with it today. Why do I do this? I forget (ignore!) one of my fundamental rules, which is to get it out of the way as early as possible, so I can feel virtuous all day.
Anyway – a full 21 mins of strength, stretching and creaking bones – and I felt much better.
Suzi
Day 144 – Week 21 – 21 mins (10)
Well, I did better than my last cardio day – but still not up to the full quota. 10 minutes this morning, instead of five.
I am realising that when I feel overwhelmed with things to do, that is when I feel like I don’t have time to exercise. It’s not true of course, but in my head, that is what I’m feeling.
For the last few days I have felt that I am not on top of things, and that is immediately reflected in an increased resistance to doing the exercise. It feels like a waste of time to exercising, instead of getting on with all these millions of things I feel like I need to do. That’s not the reality of course. The reality is that I then lie in bed for an hour arguing with myself that I can’t get up and do the exercise, because I have too many things to do, and then of course, I have wasted that hour. Ridiculous.
There’s only two possible solutions to this. I either get on top of my life (which only ever happens for two or three consecutive days at the most!) or I get over thinking I have to be on top of everything to make it a ‘good day’ for exercise. And that’s not as easy as you might think…..
Suzi
Day 143 – Week 21 – 21 mins
A better day today – did my full quota of strength exercises. There’s no doubt I have much less resistance to the strength work than the cardio work. There’s just something about huffing and puffing that puts me off. And for strength work I get to lie on the floor for some of the time, and that’s always a bonus.
Tomorrow – I must bosu…and with a bit of luck I’ll be all fired up to do my full 21 minutes. It’ll be touch and go though tomorrow. My fella is away – and when that happens, it’s very easy to reach over and pick up the laptop as soon as I wake up. But if I do that….all will be lost….I’ll be lost in cyberspace…
Suzi
Day 142 – Week 21- 21 mins (5)
I didn’t have it in me this morning. I had no energy and no motivation. But I eventually dragged out the bosu and did a fairly half-hearted five minutes – not the 21 minutes I should have been doing.
But this is the way I see it. Nobody can be motivated every single day. No one can wake up bursting with energy, desperate to get out there and moving each and every morning. Some days, you just don’t want to do it.
But in the old days, I would of course have done nothing on those days – or weeks – or months. I would have let all the good work slide away, until I was back at square one, or beyond. This way, even though I only managed a fairly rubbish five minutes, it kept me on track, for one more day. I might have several days like this, who knows, but at least I’ll be staying on the same spot instead of going backwards. And I will just keep doing whatever I can until the motivation comes back. Which it will, because it always does. It just might not be tomorrow….
Suzi
