I need a weekend from my weekend. Over the last two days I:
-put together my new treadmill with The Husband (who got really cranky when he didn’t understand the instructions as I read them out loud because every now and then the booklet skipped over something that you were supposed to do in between each step and the only way you could figure it out was to study the pictures)
-used my new treadmill (so far I can only walk for 15 minutes at 2.5mph, which is just over half a mile. But anything is better than the zero exercise I was getting before.)
-pulled up weeds around the bushes along the house (my arms are REALLY sore)
-cleaned the junk out of the guest room (I found a Winnie the Pooh blanket under the bed that I’m assuming belongs to my niece, left from when my family was here back in May)
-cleaned out my car (it had been so long since I’d done it that I don’t even remember the last time I did it)
-grocery shopping (the chain that I shop at closed the store closest to me, so I have to drive farther out of my way to do the grocery shopping; I don’t go to the other chain closer to me because they don’t have everything I need. For example: They apparently don’t believe in romaine lettuce and sell only iceberg.)
-finally watched Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (I had bought this a couple months ago, but just now got around to watching it)
Congrats for starting to exercise! There are some tricks to help push the time along. I have trouble reading on a treadmill, but I know some people who will exercise longer to have more reading time. You could also tape some of your favorite TV shows, and only allow yourself to watch them when exercising (and a half hour show, minus commercials, should bring you up to about 25 minutes).
I also find that if I increase the speed or incline every few minutes, when I bring it back to my typical level, it feels much easier than before.
Thanks for the tips! I managed to read a magazine yesterday and this morning, although at a much slower rate than I usually can! 😉 I’m going to try to increase my length of time on the treadmill over the next few weeks, then start building up speed and increasing the incline once I stop feeling quite so winded as I do now. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, so right now 15 minutes at 2.5mph is a real workout for me!
Good for you for exercising; I really need to find a way to work that into my life!
And, a store that only sells iceberg lettuce? Good GOD. The sadness.
Thanks! I’ve been leading such a sedentary lifestyle for a while and I know it’s bad for me. But walking around my neighborhood is not an option because I live on a busy highway with no sidewalks and I’m really not a going-to-a-gym type of person, so I knew the only way I could fit it into my life was to get my own treadmill. Now I just have to keep making myself get up in time each morning to walk on it instead of hitting the snooze button ten times like I normally do…
Yes, they would! 🙂
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