Exercise Calendar

Ok. I’ve been saying for weeks now that I’m going to start exercising. I just haven’t been able to get myself to do it… It has actually been really easy to put it off with school, work, and then getting sick. We have a trip in a week and a half, and I kept telling myself that it would just be too much to try to exercise over the holiday when I wasn’t here. I’d start in the new year when we got back…
This morning however I was reading a post on Get Fit Slowly where J.D. was talking about how he was going to start exercising today and stop putting it off until January. I posted a comment on his page because I realized that now is just as good a time as any to start.
Now I’m not saying that I’m fat. I’m just getting there. Nearly a year and a half ago I got married. At that time I weighed somewhere between 155 and 160. Now I weigh 175… I wouldn’t have a problem weighing 175 if I felt like I was in shape, but I have a little bit of a belly, my pants are getting too tight, and I get very out of breath when I climb 3 flights of stairs to get to one of my classes. I DON’T LIKE FEELING LIKE THIS!
So, I am going to make a difference in my exercise habits. That shouldn’t be too hard as I don’t really have any now. Over the summer I read a post on Lifehacker about how you need to keep track of when you meet your goals when you are trying to start a new habit in life. So I setup an exercise calendar where I can check off each day that I exercise. You can view the calendar here.
Sundays will be my planned day off, and I’ll still check that one off so that my chain can continue. Well I guess thus far I haven’t reported that I did actually go run tonight. It was only a short 5 min. run, but it was in the snow, and I have a cold. Besides, one of the problems I have faced in the past is that I over do it the one or two times I exercise, and I lose intereset because I can’t walk the next day. I’ll start small this time though, so I ran around a large block. From here to 7th, 7th to 7th, and back here. Google estimates the distance to about 0.6 miles. I’ll say I ran about a half mile – just for easiness sake. The snow was slippery on the ground, so I did have to step carefully, however it still took me 5 min. to make that loop… I decided to keep that up. I will run the loop twice on Monday (as long as I’m not still suffering from this cold – although I will run at least once around it.) This way I can slowly increase my distance, and keep track of my times. I’m going to keep this information in a spreadsheet, and I’ll update on here every once in a while. I’ll get comments up here sometime, but if anyone has anything they would like to add to this message, feel free to send me a message and I’ll add it in – You can do so through the contact page – either send me an email, or just fill out the page. Hey, maybe you’ll get me to add in the functionality 🙂 Have a great night!