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It's become really, really obvious that I HAVE to start having some kind of regularly scheduled, top priority exercise time frame every day, that I turn down other things because of and build my day around, period. I know it can be done. Nancy gets up EVERY SINGLE DAY - including when she's traveling, including when people are staying at her house, including when it's the dead of winter in Boston - and either walks or swims briskly (indoors) for 30 minutes. I have no doubt this is part of her being fit, energetic and mentally with it to a degree that her students find hard to keep up with, as she turns 70. You just have to decide it's important and make it a habit. With Nancy, I know she has at least stuck with it since I was pregnant with Elise - and Elise just turned 8.

I just walked a couple of laps on a track at a park, with some stretching in between, and now my thighs hurt O_O I mean, this was not a long arduous walk! Good grief. But other than about 15 hilly minutes on Sunday, that caused me to break out in a sweat, I haven't walked further than necessary to change rooms or get to and from a car, for a week. Combined with waaaaay too many hours driving, I feel pretty gross (sore in some places, stiff in others, mildly irritable whenever I haven't stretched for a bit...)

I suppose my easiest in would be to commit to walking Isaac to school, that would just mean I need to get back from taking A&A a bit earlier, so he doesn't run late...and, I'm not sure how it would go on days when Grant offers to take them all and let me sleep an extra hour - do I give that precious sleep up? What about weekends and holidays? Our days are SO variable, which is kinda the issue here.

I take a lot of walks with Jake and Elise during school days, but by a lot, honestly, I lately mean 1-2 per week. Which is not enough exercise. And Jake, who is not on the roller derby team with everybody else and doesn't play outside as often, needs to be moving around more, too. The rainy season is about to start again and throw another variable at us...

I'll figure something out. Here, have a SoundCloud link about the solo road trip I just went on, Sat morning-Mon night:

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[bookrunner.livejournal.com]

You have an iPhone, right? Are you aware that it also functions as a pedometer, in the built-in Health app? For me, that definitely creates awareness, accountability and consistency around being active, especially since the app keeps running weekly, monthly, and yearly averages of the number of steps you take per day.

[bookrunner.livejournal.com]

An additional thought: I also have an extremely variable schedule. What helps me make it to the gym on a regular basis (when I'm not working around the clock) is a mental trick. My natural inclination is not to exercise, so I needed to find a way to prevent myself from thwarting my own efforts to be fit. I came up with a rule that I use to determine whether I will go to the gym on a given day.

The rule: if I have a significant block of leisure time (for me, that's about 90 minutes) and I did not go to the gym the previous day, then I go to the gym.

This eliminates a lot of time that I would otherwise spending hemming and hawing about whether to exercise, weighing and re-weighing my priorities. It makes the decision process easy and automatic. The decision has already been made for me, by past-me. All I have to do is apply the rule. If X and Y, then Z. It takes a lot less willpower to make this type of "decision."

Obviously, if you try this, you'll have to come up with a rule that works for you and your life.

I think exercising every day is a pretty lofty goal and frankly, unnecessarily ambitious under the circumstances. If you don't exercise, then even adding a couple of sessions a week of light exercise will bring you real benefits. Incremental changes are much more likely to stick, because you'll be motivated to keep going by your own success. With fitness/weight loss, consistency is really more important than making drastic changes.

Walk at home

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I've used the Leslie Sansone walk at home videos. We've gotten DVDs from Netflix and done some that are on YouTube. It helps cut down on my excuses: too hot, too cold, raining=air conditioned living room; don't feel like getting dressed=just put your shoes on; don't have enough time=some are only 5 minutes, most can be broken down into 15 minute segments (I can do them on a break in my office). Good luck! I need to get back to it myself.

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From a long-time reader who no longer has an LJ account :)...
I believe at one point you were doing a Couch to 5K plan, and I just wanted to give my feedback on doing one last summer. I started one after not exercising at all for YEARS, and I've continued to run for 9 months now. It's been great for me. I'm definitely not a natural athlete, or fast, or particularly motivated all the time. But I've found it to be something I can stick with mainly because I sign up for races...so then I have to train for them. And the races can be really fun. I only run about 3 times a week, because that's all I can fit into my schedule with young kids and a full-time job. I like it too because I can compete with myself to get better. (Also, my family was on vacation in Florida last month, and I did a run on the beach and felt like a badass, haha.)

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