You know you're in trouble when you play a game and the person you're playing against starts making excuses FOR you. That's what happened my first day back to exercising life. The instructions after I had Reuben were to not start working out for six weeks. So the 43rd day after I had Reuben I challenged Abby to a game of HORSE. After she finished beating me H to HORSE she consoled me by saying, Don't worry. I know you can shoot better. It's probably just the pressure you can't handle. Ouch. We shot around some more and went on a half mile walk.
From then on, I've tried to do something every day to get back the freedom of good health. It's mainly been walks, some yoga, push ups and I've just gotten back on my bike. I really love working out so the actual exercise is no problem. The challenge is finding the time between Reuben's needs and my work demands and my exhaustion. I'd love to hear tips from the wider world. I think I might start doing some reporting on the blog of how it goes. I've lately been enjoying the blog Baby Steps written by Lisa Jhung who had her baby a few months back and is reporting for Runner's Magazine about the experience of getting back on the road. Anybody know of any similar blogs? I'd be really interested in reading them.
4 comments:
that's funny that abby beat you so soundly and then tried to smooth is over like that.
if you can think of the place you and aaron went snowshoeing at let me know. we'd be happy to figure out other places to go. oh, and i also saw (which you'd enjoy), that there's a guided snowshoe night hike to find owls here. it's at one of the nearby resorts. seeing an owl whilst snowshoeing...it wouldn't get much better than that.
I found that attending a class was really helpful. By having a time set aside for exercising, I was able to set aside a specific time for exercising each day. If I just tried to squeeze something in, sometime, I had a harder time justifying taking the time for myself. I could definitely stay busy all day without every "finding" extra time for working out.
You should look for a gym that has day care. I know at the YMCA here they watch babies starting as young as 6 weeks.
I want to start a weight loss/exercise blog. I want to make it private, but those who are a part of it have to post what exercise they did that week, what they weigh, etc... I think it helps to have to report what you did/didn't do. :)
I'd be interested in finding this type of stuff out, too. One site I found recently is excersizetv.tv that has some shorter workouts (like 10 minutes) that I can do when I've got just a little bit of time throughout the day. I also try to workout first thing after Sam wakes up. As soon as I've had breakfast and fed him, I take him to our apartment's gym and make him sit in his stroller while I do a 30 minute workout. He usually cries, but I'm the only one in there so I don't really care. Sorry this is a novel.
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