Next year I turn 40. Le sigh…
Sigh aside, an article I read on CNN makes me realize I need to get it together.
However, I’m not in the mood to workout. I know the benefits of working out. I realize how good it feels when it’s done, but with the weather and life being as crazy as always, who wants to do THAT? I was trying to find that mo-jo to get myself moving again, and could relate to an article I read from O magazine about writer’s Alissa Nutting’s rehabbing her relationship with exercise and decided that in order to get myself moving, I needed to do what was right FOR me and not what other people thought.
The issue for me is that my schedule is insane and the only time I find myself alone is after the kids get on the bus in the mornings. The last thing I want to do is head out to a gym or take a walk. Going to a gym means money and heading for an outside walk means I’m going to run into someone who wants to chat. Plus, I’ve rediscovered Netflix and well…I know that summer bodies are made in the winter and I know that I can’t just talk about it, be about it. What I did was compromise. I have a workout for the week for those who like TV, don’t want to leave the house, and need to get started.
Yesterday, I promised a new feature for the blog. It’s my Fit to Forty journey with exercise for the couch potato in mind! I found that I need to do what works for me, and right now I have to trick myself into getting off the couch.
To get started, I purchased Leslie Sansone’s 15 minute in home walking MP 3 from Amazon. I do this workout immediately after putting The Boy on the bus. I’ve made my own little circuit to begin to shock my body back into shape:
15 minute walking
40 squats (I break them up into 2×20)
30 crunches
30 reverse crunches
30 triceps dips
If I feel like doing more, I may just walk until the show I’m watching is over. If I don’t then I finish after a stretch.
This takes about 30 minutes total.
I found that for ME it was a great way to ease back into loving myself.
My challenge is to do the above and leave a comment about your results.
You WILL not be thin in a week, but you’re on your way.
I’m lazy too! I have to make myself get off of the couch. I’m almost at the end of Sons of Anarchy…I have no clue what I’ll do then!
I had to accept that I won’t lose all of my weight over night…that’s a bad cycle right there!
“Summer bodies are made in the winter” – good point. I usually spend the entire Spring and Summer working off Nov & Dec damage. Neverendingfrickincycle!
I wish I could exercise but I am a very lazy person, plus I have Netflix too. lol
I have a treadmill in the basement that is new a shiny and I never use it. It’s quite sad, really.