Day 223 – Week 32 – 32 mins
I tried to take my own advice today and concentrate properly on investing the time and focus into my exercise.
Normally I am listening to podcasts while I am exercising, trying to ‘use the time wisely’ by learning something as I do it – but today, I put on some very calming music and worked my way slowly and steadily through my strengthening and stretching.
I didn’t want to be there. I wanted to be back on my computer where I have been working on building a new website every spare minute of the day. To tear myself away to exercise was tough, but putting on the right music, and breathing deeply really helped.
And goodness I needed it. I think I have spent about 20 hours on the laptop this weekend, and there’s no way THAT is good for your body.
Suzi
Day 222 – Week 32 – 32 mins
Well – just as the week is coming to a close – I finally manage a full 32 minutes of cardio.
How was it?
Sweaty.
See – this is why I don’t like exercise. Even on a wintry day, if you jig about for 30 odd minutes, you get very hot and sweaty. And I’d rather not!
It’s not so bad running about in the park, but in the living room, it starts to feel like a sauna. I may have been the only person in London today who felt compelled to open the door and let in the cold wind, but it was a blessed relief.
Now, I just have to hope it stops raining sometime soon, because I’d much rather be outside to get my heart rate up.
Suzi
Day 221 – Week 32 – 32 mins (1)
I’m going to pretend today didn’t happen.
I am going to bed and am going to have today again, tomorrow – and this time, I’m going to jig about for a full 32 minutes!
Suzi
Day 220 – Week 32 – 32 mins
I am very proud of myself for doing my full 32 minutes today. It seems harder and harder to achieve my full quota lately, so I am celebrating whenever I manage it.
They key to success? Letting your mind let go of all the other million and one things you need to do, breathing deeply and giving yourself that time to concentrate on your health and fitness.
Oh – I know it’s hard – as you exercise away in your living room, thinking you should be in the shower already, because you could do with being at work a little earlier today, and then you notice a big smear on a photo frame on your mantlepiece and you think how much you’d like to clean it off, and then that reminds you that you need to buy a new photo frame because you have that photo of your niece and nephew that is still sitting on the shelf frameless, and then you remind yourself you have to take some fish out of the freezer for dinner when you next go into the kitchen, and in fact you really should write a shopping list as there’s a few things you need on the way home, and you musn’t forget that letter you need to post on your way to the train station this morning, and the DVDs that have to be taken to the video shop….
Sound familiar? No wonder you are tempted to cut your exercise short and get on with some of those jobs spinning around in your brain…
But don’t….
Be still….
And give yourself a 32 minute investment in your health. Remember what we said at the beginning of all this? For this year – doing this exercise is the only thing you absolutely MUST do each day….
Breath deeply and cocoon yourself from everything else that is demanding your attention….
Suzi
Day 218 – Week 32 – 32 mins (5)
Well – I had lots of good intentions to go out for a run this morning for a run – only it was still dark at 5.30 when I got up.
So – I got on with a few jobs that I needed to do on the computer, while waiting for it to get light. But then – well – I got stuck in the middle of something I really wanted to try and finish, and you guessed it, the run didn’t happen.
I barely had time for five mins of speedy strengthening before I had to get myself ready for work.
Suzi
