A few years ago, I used to regularly take a step class at the YMCA. I did this three times a week , plus a spinning class. Then I got out of the groove. Well, recently, I've been trying to get my exercise groove back. I returned to the step class. I am out of shape for that. Here it is Saturday, and I am still sore (though not nearly as much as I had been) from what I did on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I have read a million places about Traineo, a fitness and weight loss community. I am also looking at that. The thing that appeals to me about products like these is that there is a visual documentation of the steps that you are taking to achieve your goal.
Once, I maintained an Excel spreadsheet that kept track of what weight I was losing. I created a chart that showed my progress. This had been a helpful tool. What the above things offer me is a fuller picture. For example, Traineo want's to know just what physical activity I've done today and I am itching to put something up there.
It took a lot of discipline Tuesday and Wednesday to wake up before 6:00 to get myself to that class, but I feel good about my choice.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Resolution
I still am having a difficult time determining my vision for my primary blog. I don't want to put every single thing up there, but I do want to document the various things that I have been working on.
I don't even think that I did a New Year's post, which is pretty sad.
Two years ago, right before the new year, I named the coming year. And it seemed like one of those things you would read in a self-help book. The year became what I declared it. I was thinking about that a few weeks ago and I silently declared 2009 the year of "this body." This body, of course, is my body.
Part of this is my navel-gazing obsession with the fact that I am going to turn thirty this year. The other part of it is a realization that I am the only person responsible of taking care of myself, and that I am the only person who would take care of me. There are some ways that I could be doing better in that area and I have chosen to focus on the physical.
I started on the very traditional start day of January 1 and have been pretty good about working on this. I have decided that I would like to document the process as well. A better planner would have made a big deal of taking a before picture so that on January 1, 2010, I could see what I was able to accomplish this year. However, one of the things that I have decided is that what I'm not after are rigid, strict rules. That doesn't work well for me. Discipline, okay. Craziness, not okay.
This is not the only area where I am trying to improve. I want to take more deliberate actions as a parent and focus on spending quality time with my son and giving him memorable experiences. I'm also itching to spend more time writing. I have strayed away from putting time in at the computer, and need to get back to it. I found notes from my current novel that are a few years old. I know how these things get done. You sit down and you push through it. I used to do a number of creative things, writing, drawing, knitting, making things, but I have really gotten away from it. I am not happy with that.
Anyway, a burst of spontaneity led me back to this blog and, for now, I'm rolling with it.
I don't even think that I did a New Year's post, which is pretty sad.
Two years ago, right before the new year, I named the coming year. And it seemed like one of those things you would read in a self-help book. The year became what I declared it. I was thinking about that a few weeks ago and I silently declared 2009 the year of "this body." This body, of course, is my body.
Part of this is my navel-gazing obsession with the fact that I am going to turn thirty this year. The other part of it is a realization that I am the only person responsible of taking care of myself, and that I am the only person who would take care of me. There are some ways that I could be doing better in that area and I have chosen to focus on the physical.
I started on the very traditional start day of January 1 and have been pretty good about working on this. I have decided that I would like to document the process as well. A better planner would have made a big deal of taking a before picture so that on January 1, 2010, I could see what I was able to accomplish this year. However, one of the things that I have decided is that what I'm not after are rigid, strict rules. That doesn't work well for me. Discipline, okay. Craziness, not okay.
This is not the only area where I am trying to improve. I want to take more deliberate actions as a parent and focus on spending quality time with my son and giving him memorable experiences. I'm also itching to spend more time writing. I have strayed away from putting time in at the computer, and need to get back to it. I found notes from my current novel that are a few years old. I know how these things get done. You sit down and you push through it. I used to do a number of creative things, writing, drawing, knitting, making things, but I have really gotten away from it. I am not happy with that.
Anyway, a burst of spontaneity led me back to this blog and, for now, I'm rolling with it.
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