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Stairway to health
Aug. 18th, 2006 09:26 amI have been grumbling to myself lately about the fact I am getting out of shape. I have never been particularly *in* shape, but at least will all my previous jobs I was up and doing stuff enough to maintain a certain base level of activity. Now I sit at a desk for 8 hours a day.
I've noticed my pants fit tighter than they should, and I have a little bit of a pudge. I've wanted to do somethign about this, but my various attempts have failed. I tried going walking, but a week of straight rain got me out of hte habit and I never got back in. I'd love to bike places, but work is seven miles of very busy roads and steep hills away, and no other places I go are in biking distance. I got an exercise bike, and it sits unused on the porch. You get the idea.
I realized that the problem is that at home I have no regular schedule that I can insert an exercise routine into easily. I can't say I'll bike for 15min before dinner if dinner happens at wildly different times each day, and can vary from Fey cooking a full meal to me grabbing a couple PB&Js before going to bed.
And the once place in my life where I have a regular schedule and think in terms of schedules is work. So I'm goign to try and fix exercises in there. To that end I'm goign to walk up and down the 3 flights of stairs here several times before my mornign break, and possibly several more times as my afternoon break. It isn't exactly a fancy high impact workout, but that is ok. It is *something* which is more than I was getting before. And that is really what I need most, to increase my overall activity level in whatever little ways I can find.
I've noticed my pants fit tighter than they should, and I have a little bit of a pudge. I've wanted to do somethign about this, but my various attempts have failed. I tried going walking, but a week of straight rain got me out of hte habit and I never got back in. I'd love to bike places, but work is seven miles of very busy roads and steep hills away, and no other places I go are in biking distance. I got an exercise bike, and it sits unused on the porch. You get the idea.
I realized that the problem is that at home I have no regular schedule that I can insert an exercise routine into easily. I can't say I'll bike for 15min before dinner if dinner happens at wildly different times each day, and can vary from Fey cooking a full meal to me grabbing a couple PB&Js before going to bed.
And the once place in my life where I have a regular schedule and think in terms of schedules is work. So I'm goign to try and fix exercises in there. To that end I'm goign to walk up and down the 3 flights of stairs here several times before my mornign break, and possibly several more times as my afternoon break. It isn't exactly a fancy high impact workout, but that is ok. It is *something* which is more than I was getting before. And that is really what I need most, to increase my overall activity level in whatever little ways I can find.
