October weekly challenge/check-ins!

[blnchflr]

Welp, since there wasn't a stampede for taking on October, I'll try out an alternate format this month:

Every Monday (today being a very late first Monday), I'll ask what you hope to accomplish exercise-wise this week.

The following Monday I'll ask how it went, and what's on the agenda/wish-list for the coming week.

So, what do you hope to accomplish this week, some of which you may already have accomplished, it being Friday?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

My plan as of Monday was to go for 20-30-min walks four days of the week. (I tried the first day of the running program last week. It went poorly. I told a family friend who runs competitively and she wtfed a lot and told me to stick with serious walking for a while.) I did on Tuesday. I meant to yesterday but my knee decided it wasn't playing so I didn't. (I spent the whole work day yesterday going ow ow ow every time I had to walk the four steps to the printer. So not going walking was probably a wise choice.) I don't think I will today and I don't know if I will Saturday or Sunday like I mean to.

[blnchflr]

It sucks when your body isn't up for the exercise your mind is :(

If you're not naturally active, it's the hardest thing in the world, but if you can do other types of exercises that don't strain your knee, it can help your conditioning, but even more your mind. Letting myself do mini exercises has worked very well for me.

For example, it'd be awesome to get up to 100 squats a day, but if that's my goal, I get overwhelmed and disheartened and end up not doing any. So instead I have to do 7 squats 3 times a week. I can do that - and in practice, I usually do more, too, but the stated and super-duper ok goal has to be only 7 squats, so it always seems doable :)

(I wish someone had told me this as a kid/teen, *sigh*.)