Tink will be returning in baby steps.

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In my last entry about this goal, I wrote... 5 months ago

...”once is not a streak.”

And indeed, having done my then-new walking workout video once on March 5, I proceeded to, er, not do it again until today – exactly 4 months later.

I’ve been really inspired, though, the past couple of days, by exploring the fitness tracker at sparkpeople.com (which I joined a little over a week ago). Who knew that decluttering and playing the guitar could actually be counted as “cardio minutes”?

Having added the two major decluttering sprees I did this past week, along with my daily guitar practice, I then decided to get a bit more serious. Yesterday I snuck in 10 minutes of dancing around the house while listening to my favourite oldies.

And today I dusted off the walk-at-home video and did the basic workout (which takes about half an hour from start to finish, and includes a 14-minute mile).

OK, twice in four months is not a streak, either.

But hanging out at SP has moved this goal to the front burner, and I’m hoping that I can keep it there this time.

Getting in exercise via this video could scarcely be more convenient – and I’ve found that if I treat it like dancing (which some of the instructor’s add-on moves resemble), it’s even gasp fun.

So if I do nothing else, I’m going to try to do one of these workouts three times this coming week.

Ima use the 43T reminder thingie to help me remember.



Comments:

joie de vivre is mellow

idea for you

‘way back when, I had a goal to increase ab strength.

What I publicly declared was I wouldn’t read or post anything to 43t unless I had either done my crunches or used my ab machine first.

It gave me an incentive to get out of my office chair and crunching, believe you me!

Tink will be returning in baby steps.

Oooh, yes.

I can see how that would be highly motivating.

I’ll take it under advisement and see how I manage with just the reminder first.

If that doesn’t work out (as it were), I’ll adopt a tougher approach.

Good for you!

Go Tink!


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