Walking – Day 5
I have a confession to make. I did not do my walking program yesterday. The plan called for warmup, body shaping exercises and warmdown. Most of the body shaping exercises were not a good idea for me, I have a really bad knee, so rather than finding an alternative I just worked through my lunch hour. Bad, bad idea – it made me feel like such a slug loser! Next time I’ll do a warmup and then 30 min of yoga for body shaping purposes.
Today was another 20 min interval session. I worked in Seattle today so got some activity just walking to the office – and sprint walking, as I was late, back to the ferry in the evening. I did walk my 20 min too, but I have to admit I’m not working the intervals very hard. City blocks lend themselves to that type of training, though, you can sprint walk one block and rest walk the next couple.
I’m wondering if I don’t need to repeat week one a third time next week, just to build more of an endurance base. I’ll see how I feel on Monday.
September 14th, 2007
You, Jeri, are no ’slug loser’ so don’t go feeling like one. Big congrats on your progress! I’d join you in the challenge, but then George would probably pout. He’s such a baby sometimes.
Have a great weekend!
September 17th, 2007
I never thought about city blocks being ideal for that sort of workout. Makes sense. My neighborhood is fairly hilly so that too would be good changeup exercise. Hope this week goes well with the working out.
-bm
September 28th, 2007
Know what, Jeri? I’ve been finding it more difficult to get time to write up my daily progress reports than it is to acually get out and walk!
That said, this past week or so, to get the walking in has been a real struggle for me, too — find myself swinging from MONSTER Motivated to Oh-Just-Let-Me-Lie-Here… Intervals are the hardest to schedule, I find, because they’re more intense so you work up a good sweat. Which means you can’t very well sneak them in on a lunch hour or between meetings!! Well, you could, but then people wouldn’t want to sit nearby…
What a blessing to know that the 20-30 minutes a day that’s recommended by gov’t health agencies can be divided up into little 10-minute “bites” of exercise time.
I think it’s really important that we don’t beat ourselves up over missed days or whatever, but just to do the best we can with whatever Life decided to throw in to mess with our good intentions!
Any exercise is better than none, in the big scheme of things, right?