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Aug. 31st, 2012 03:55 pmSince I no longer feel like my insides want to twist out through my eyeballs... and it's the last day of the month, I thought I'd do another Operation Move More update...
I started August 9th, and I only ended up skipping 2 days this month. A couple days had a loose interpretation of "moving more" but there was moving so it totally counts! :)
I've decided its a weird thing where I have to have a unwavering but totally flexible plan. So I make a schedule of how long to move, and what I think I should do while moving, but I let myself mix things up. My default seems to be 15 minutes on my ancient plucked off the neighbor's curb on riff raff night stationery bike. But hey, still moving, right?!
Also it's looking like I might need/want to give myself off one day a week. Stuff happens and I once read that its okay to skip one day but you should never skip two days. Skipping ANY day is bad for me personally as it makes it SO MUCH harder to get back to doing the thing, but like I said, stuff happens.
This month I went from 10 to 15 minutes a day. I think what I'm going to do going forward is make September 20 minutes, October 25 minutes and November (and maybe December) 30 minutes. That seems hopefully achievable. I feel like I should push myself to do more faster, but I'm trying to take this time very slow and steady.
Also I've made an Amazon wish list with a few fairly inexpensive things that I'm allowed to get if I make it through each month moving most days. This morning I bought a jump rope! Not sure how that's going to go, but I thought I'd add it to the moving more mix.
I seem to be alternating between a walk around the neighborhood, time on the bike, or time on the treadmill. Mostly walking and the bike the last couple weeks. Maybe I'll find that as the weather gets colder the treadmill will be more appealing. (To a point. It's in the garage and eventually it'll be too cold perhaps...)
Anyway. Can't say I've noticed any big benefit, but it's only been about 3 weeks, so I'll just keep on keeping on. And at some point, pushing myself a bit harder. And, um, if I end up on this 3 mile hike with my dad this weekend, that will pretty much guarantee I'll feel like a winner all next week with that in the exercise bank :))
I started August 9th, and I only ended up skipping 2 days this month. A couple days had a loose interpretation of "moving more" but there was moving so it totally counts! :)
I've decided its a weird thing where I have to have a unwavering but totally flexible plan. So I make a schedule of how long to move, and what I think I should do while moving, but I let myself mix things up. My default seems to be 15 minutes on my ancient plucked off the neighbor's curb on riff raff night stationery bike. But hey, still moving, right?!
Also it's looking like I might need/want to give myself off one day a week. Stuff happens and I once read that its okay to skip one day but you should never skip two days. Skipping ANY day is bad for me personally as it makes it SO MUCH harder to get back to doing the thing, but like I said, stuff happens.
This month I went from 10 to 15 minutes a day. I think what I'm going to do going forward is make September 20 minutes, October 25 minutes and November (and maybe December) 30 minutes. That seems hopefully achievable. I feel like I should push myself to do more faster, but I'm trying to take this time very slow and steady.
Also I've made an Amazon wish list with a few fairly inexpensive things that I'm allowed to get if I make it through each month moving most days. This morning I bought a jump rope! Not sure how that's going to go, but I thought I'd add it to the moving more mix.
I seem to be alternating between a walk around the neighborhood, time on the bike, or time on the treadmill. Mostly walking and the bike the last couple weeks. Maybe I'll find that as the weather gets colder the treadmill will be more appealing. (To a point. It's in the garage and eventually it'll be too cold perhaps...)
Anyway. Can't say I've noticed any big benefit, but it's only been about 3 weeks, so I'll just keep on keeping on. And at some point, pushing myself a bit harder. And, um, if I end up on this 3 mile hike with my dad this weekend, that will pretty much guarantee I'll feel like a winner all next week with that in the exercise bank :))
