Making Time to Exercise

I've thought a lot about my health lately.  Since I started writing on the regular, I found myself slacking off on exercise, choosing instead to sit in front of the computer typing away.  While I didn't feel exactly out of shape, I realized that I wasn't exactly in great shape either.  Some changes had to be made.

The first change was easy.  It involved work and the way I spent my days there.  I was always pretty good at taking the stairs to the upper floors when I needed to go, but often I would make one trip up and then think that was enough for the day, often taking the elevator on later trips.  Now I try to make more than one trip per day.  Sometimes it’s tough, especially on those hot summer days, but it’s important to keep going.  You don’t achieve your goals by quitting.

Changing my home habits was a bit harder.  At home it’s easy to sit and type or watch TV or whatever else comes along, and just forget about that pesky exercise.  The elliptical sits there waiting, but it’s up to me to get on there and get the work done.  It’s sure not going to spin round and round on its own.  So I started hitting the elliptical on the regular and so far so good on that front.  My cardio is looking up as a result of the double blast of stairs at work and the elliptical at home. 

To go along with the cardio, I’m throwing in push-ups, pull-ups, and various ab exercises to help round out the rest of my body.  I just hope that I can continue the trend that I've started.  I can honestly say that I feel better now than I have in a while, and I’m looking forward to getting into the best shape of my life. 

In the future, I want to add some free-running into my fitness plan because that just looks like a lot of fun.  That probably won’t take place for a little while though, at least not in full.  (I’m always jumping off of something)  The way I see it, your health is a journey and you have to keep progressing if you want to stay at the top of your game.  So take a look at your health and access what you need to do to improve yourself.  If you plan to keep on living, you may as well feel good doing it!