Not a gym bunny yet
It’s day three of my holiday. Not long after posting ‘The Holiday’ on Saturday I realised that I had forgotten a crucial part of my daily routine…
7. Go Outside
I find it quite easy when I get obsessed with doing something in the flat to forget to leave it at some point during the day. This happens quite frequently at weekends. So this is just to remind me to get outside for at least thirty minutes a day.
Now that’s out of the way I am glad to report things are going well so far. I am managing to get lots done and relax too.
I’m feeling very proud of the novel writing. Yesterday I was struggling with writing, normally I’d give up on a day like that, but all I needed to do was write one page. I ended up with a page and a half. If I keep going, like I did with blogging, then eventually it’ll get easier and I’ll write more whether it’s a good day or not.
The exercise is a pain. I’m doing a daily workout of about 45 minutes with cross trainer, lateral thigh trainer, weights and floor exercises and I hate it. I feel fabulous afterwards, but I wish I could enjoy the ‘during ‘part. I’m going to do nice exercise as well. I’m going swimming tomorrow and have Body Balance on Thursday. I used to love aerobics, but I have a dodgy knee that doesn’t take kindly to it these days. I am so envious of people who enjoy going to the gym. I’m hoping if I keep this up then one day in some distant future I’ll wake up and think ‘I enjoy strenuous exercise!’
Whatever happens I will keep up with my seven daily things. I’m hoping by the weekend I will be starting to feel the effects of a week of being good to myself… though the full Tigger effect might take a little bit longer.
I’m really struggling with exercise at the moment too. I have to force myself to go out at lunchtime when I’m at work – its the initial getting up and going outside. As soon as I’m outside the building and halfway into Halifax I’m feeling better about it already.
Getting up at stupid o’clock in the morning and going out for a walk/jog first thing when its rather chilly and motorists give me strange, funny looks is even less appealing.
Still, I’m determined to stick with it because I know I’m getting positive results.
Interesting about the forgetting to go outside comment at the weekends – I’ve done that so many times its scary. I get to Sunday night and think to myself “You know, I haven’t left the house this weekend”.
Look after your knee, the last thing you want to do is agaravate it.
I’ve had gym memberships before, the last one in a gym that shared the car park with work, easiest thing in the world, but I hated the time it took out of my day along with the whole communal changing rooms/shower cubicle setups. Plus there was a personal trainer who also happened to be a manager that was a complete and utter a*se who didn’t understand why people couldn’t take care of their bodies. Way to go motivate people, huh?
Make sure you don’t overdo it with the exercise – its not great to work out everyday because your muscles don’t get a chance to repair and rebuild.
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I have to say I find it difficult to not do exercise every day if I’m doing it because I’m scared if I stop for 24 hours I’ll give up completely… maybe I’ll do something gentle one day a week like go for a long walk. I seem to have a weird obsessive tendency of all or nothing, probably not the healthiest attitude!
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