and really bad eggs

[cyrano]

You will always remember this as the day you almost went to the gym.

That's pretty much been my mantra the past week or two. I say it in my best Norrington voice most of the time. This week, I've even brought workout clothes and at the beginning of the day really thought I was going. But by the end of the day I've been destroyed and exhausted and all I want to do is go home.
I'm at least getting some kind of work out--Trying to walk to and from work from the parking garage, which is probably three miles or so. Working on maintaining a reasonable pace, which means I can't read because that means I'm going too slowly. And trying to make certain there's something with a fast enough beat on the mp3 player. (Right now? KMFDM NIN and Johnny Cash. It's a mixed bag.)

Comments

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

That's why both Erik and I have figured out a way to workout at home, (although we have different routines.) It's much easier when you can do that, and harder to find excuses not to.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

If you can set a decent pace, so as to elevate your heart rate a bit, walking is one of the best forms of exercise going.

Maybe create a playlist especially for this activity?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

The problem with making a playlist is that, in order to use it conveniently, I would either have to buy an iPod or dedicate my mp3 player to nothing else. (Or, I suppose, buy a second cheap mp3 player for other travelling music needs.)

[kit-n.livejournal.com]

Getting started to go the gym is a pain in the ass >_<.

But once you develop a routine, it's easy.

However, skip a day or two and it falls down hill from there. For example, I went to the gym everyday straight for 8 weeks. Then I got sick and I haven't been to a gym for 2 months -_-.

Good luck though.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my problem. In the past two years I've had about twenty or thirty different times when I broke my routine and had to try to get back into it again.