Strategic Planning

One would assume that if you sat all day for 8 hours in a chair you would be happy and anxious to get up and move your "Bootyville".  I am not happy or anxious to exercise when I get home from work.  I feel tired after sitting all day and solving all the credit card terminal issues in the world.  I just want to drag my tired body home and hold the couch down with it.  Today, I had to come up with a new strategic plan.  I decided to get "it" over with quickly.  March straight through the door, stomp up the stairs, go directly into the bedroom, change clothes, and come back to the living room,  kick my 17 year old son off the x-box, so I can use the tv for my exercise dvd.  It worked, I got it done and now I can have the rest of the night to hold the couch down and watch reality tv....got to love the American lifestyle.

Holding Down the Couch

I finally got up enough nerve to try the Biggest Loser Cardio Max dvd again tonite, and I can tell you...wait let me wipe the sweat from my eye,....it is still a booty kicker.  I layed on the couch after I got home from work and decided I would need a small nap before working out and it was hard to convince my body to get up off the couch.  My schedule changed at work and I now work from 7am to 3:30pm and it is great to leave in daylight, it is easier to find my car.  My schedule, when I started this project, was 10am to 6:30pm.  It was easier to exercise in the morning and go to work but, I did not like coming home at 7pm.  Ah me, oh my, it is not a perfect world.  This project is going to get tougher, ( I hate to work out in the afternoon) before it gets easier.

Bike for Sale

Stationary bike today and I wore my heart monitor to see if it was even worth it.  It really took a long time to achieve the "zone" and it was hard to keep the heart rate from going too low.  My bike only has one speed and I ride and sweat.  When I bought it at a Garage Sale, several years ago, it was supposed to have variable speeds and have the ability to be programmable, but as soon as I got it home, in the door, and up to the bedroom it became sedentary, covered with dust and dysfunctional. After I make use of it this winter it may end up in another Garage Sale, mine.  Thats where all exercise equipment goes after it dies, Garage Sale Graveyard for all equipment that does not live up to our New Years "promise" to he healthy.

Pain, Pain...Go Away...

My aches and pains are lingering from the Biggest Loser Workout.  Honestly, I don't know how the contestants on the show survive it.  I only did one little workout (week one, no less) and I have been hurting for two days now.  Today, I did a Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds DVD and I wore a heart monitor just to be sure I was in my target heart rate zone for fat burning and I was...for at least 30 min.

Here I am Again

Second "go round" today on the blog.  I went for a walk around the "hood" and it was a little rough out of the gate, thanks to Bob ( Biggest Loser Trainer).  He killed me with lunges yesterday and my "glutes", "hams", and "quads" are suffering.  I found a penny on my walk and I was not sure I could even bend down to pick it up.  I thought about leaving it there on the road, because it would involve too much work (and pain) to bend over to retrieve it.  But, I really wanted to add it to my total (now, $1.38, thanks to the penny today).  I often wondered about why you find money on the ground, especially in these hard economic times.  Now, I know why,... we are too fat and lazy when we drop a penny to pick it up!  This penny almost got to stay there, because half way down to pick it up my body started to growl, whine, and scream with pain and we almost didn't make it back to a standing position.  The penny is mine now and in my wallet. Its a little roughed up from being run over by cars but it will spend just fine!

Teachable Moment

I had a teachable moment this morning.  It all started when my eyes opened and I moved a muscle.  I felt the pain left behind by yesterdays "Biggest Loser Cardio Max" exercise routine and then it hit me...I didn't blog about it.  I felt terrible about the fact I didn't blog, there by messing up 365 days of blogging about my exercise. Now, I know you might be thinking, and I feel sort of stupid, about the fact that I did exercise, and that I should be happy about that.  I am estatic that I haven't missed a day of exercise!  However, the other part of the discipline is the accountability of the blog, a record, like showing up to weigh in at a meeting.  I feel like I missed a meeting with the keyboard.  So, today there will be two entries, just to make up for yesterdays blog report that went A.W.O.L..  And, I did, I did, I really did exercise yesterday, I promise!  If only you could see me get up and walk away from the computer, you would know I did by the stiff limp.

Rain, Rain.....Go Away

I know Winter is coming soon, Fall came without Summer leaving.  You could probably say Fall arrived and blew Summer out the door!  My blogging might get a little cold and dry (like the weather) because stationary bike riding is not that exciting.  What I can tell you is that the bickering selves have quieted down and Dooit was the boss today.  That is actually quite exciting, but I don't want to "count my chickens" just yet, its still too early in the project to say that exercise is a part of my life.  I did exercise today, on the bike, and I have noticed keeping to a schedule keeps Dooit Later from showing up!