I get a goodly amount of exercise, but I would like to do better. My goal for April will be to average 60 minutes of exercise over six days. I’ve just tallied up my exercise for the 12 weeks since January 6, and I averaged 45 minutes per day. So I have a good foundation built. Exercise can be anything but will most likely be the following things I do: walking, jog/walk, Pilates, exercise class. The only thing I’m not counting is restorative yoga, which I love, and is very good for me, but I cannot in good conscious call exercise. I don’t have to complete 60 minutes all at once, can break the sessions and scatter them through the day.
I’ll check in at the end of every week.
Week of March 31
I did 370 minutes of exercise over seven days, but since I’ve decided to divide 370 by six and not seven, I made my goal.
Week of April 7
380 minutes over six days. Goal achieved! Also, I walked home from work for the first time. It took 85 minutes. Which is not really that long, in the grand scheme of things. I might think about doing this more often.
Week of April 14
365 over six days. I took Easter off.
Week of April 21
Despite the fact I did no exercise on three days, I still clocked 360 minutes this week. This makes me think that 360/week is a reasonable number to shoot for on a regular basis.
Week of April 28
Although this week I only did 165 minutes over four days. I did run a 5k on Saturday though, which meant I skipped my walk to the gym and the gym which meant 80 minutes of usually automatic exercise I did not obtain. Not such a great finish to the experiment, but still successful enough that I will continue to strive for 360 minutes of exercise per week.
This is a great idea. Good job! I need to find ways to get more exercise. You're inspiring me.
Keep up the good work. Shawn got a new type of pedometer/monitor/doohicky so I got his old FitBit. I love that it records my steps and my stair cases. As of right now I am at 1,504 steps and 13 stair cases. THis is VERY low for today, but I am in catch up mode. Doing the laundry and commenting on blogs has lead to the up and down. It is amazing how having the FitBit on has helped me to increase my steps. I park further away, choose to take longer routes, and make extra trips here and there on purpose at school.