exercise at least three times a week for one month

I’m very skilled at making excuses not to go to the gym. My most common excuse is that I have so much studying to do that I don’t have time to work out. Well, I’m graduating very soon, and then I won’t have that excuse anymore…..so as soon as I take that last exam, I am going to attack this goal head-on!

I think my month will be… September. Unless it’s still freakin’ hot that first week, then it shall be October. Geez, that sounds like one of those challenge things, or a Plan… hope that doesn’t mess this goal up.

i put up with this for 6 months. at first it was hard but, i started toning up so quickly that it kept me going!! xxx

Okay, so I was sick this last week, but if I stretch my definition of a week (including last Saturday and today, Sunday), I still made my goal. It’s good enough for me, all things considering.

Three weeks now. One more week and then I’ll have to up the ante.

All right. Two weeks in a row. And this week’s off to a good start with more tennis this afternoon. That plus walking to school and back will get me two-thirds of the way there.

This is easier than I thought it would be.

I decided that I am allowed to count my walking to school as part of this exercise, but that one trip to school and back (which is about a mile altogether) will only count as half a unit of exercise. So if I did nothing but walk to school and back as my exercise for the week, I’d have to make six trips to school to complete my goal. In so doing, I’d walk 6 miles. Not a whole helluva lot for a whole week, but I’m starting slow. (I was incredibly lazy over the Christmas break; I wouldn’t want to strain anything.) Plus, I don’t walk to school that often, so this already forces me to pay attention to getting more regular exercise outside of mere transportation.

At any rate, one week is done. Now if I can keep this up for a few weeks, I can up the ante.

Okay, this week I’m finally starting on this one.

I walk to school regularly, so my first decision was whether or not that counts toward my weekly exercise. I decided, ultimately, that it does, but one trip to and from is not one unit of exercise. Instead, two trips to and from equals one unit of exercise. That way I get credit for that walking but I’m still pushed to do more than just walk to get places to meet my goal.

Exercising three days in a row has made me feel incredibly better. I’d like to stay motivated – even though I know it makes me feel a lot better, I sometimes just can’t bring myself to do anything.