A new lifestyle is difficult to start and even more difficult to continue. When I told my wife I planned on starting each day with running for twenty minutes and Yoga for ten minutes she laughed.
She said I was too out of shape and I'll be tired for a month. I think she is right. I will be tired for a month but if I don't do something quick I will be tired for the rest of my life.
We live on the sixth floor but I have access to a large hall on the fourth floor for running. I started this Sunday running for twenty minutes and Yoga for ten minutes as soon as I wake up. I gargle, drink water and get right to running without looking at my phone.
It seems like a small thing but I already noticed some changes. I sweat a lot and had a lot of adrenaline going until lunch time.
After lunch I was tired and took a twenty minute nap. In the afternoon I was more alert and mentally more equipped and generally less stressed to handle situations. The kids were nuts today and had a wild west pillow fight but I was cool enough to let them be.
A bonus is that our elevator went out today. This means I will be doing a lot of stairs in addition to the running.
No amount of money can buy me good health. Maybe I can buy equipment or buy a trainer but when it all boils down to it, it's my responsibility to use what I have and get in shape.
Now it's 9pm Sunday night and my kids want to watch reruns together. I'm ready to call it a day and start again tomorrow at 6am.
It's been 14 years since I went running with this guy and probably the last time I actually did any decent running. My knees were a lot more bouncy then. I need keep an slow pace if I am going to keep this up for another 21 days.
Of I lose my will I remember the Eye of the Tiger.
Hi, @mineopoly,
great post
I did wonder what all those trees were doing on the 6th floor ;-)
Here they think the non-existent virus can exist in disinfected swimming pool water. There is no depth deeper than human stupidity. hence our pool is verboten. Some people do a brisk walk around the pool - looks like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
HI. I'm running on the fourth floor. I didn't take a picture. The last time I ran was 14 years ago with that dude in the picture. That's the mountain behind the house. I walked this morning before looking at my phone.
I was just jokin! Mind you, running will probably kill me now - long story, but true :-(
You're not the only one @rycharde who I heard that from.
It is pretty serious when our health keeps us from running but one by one that's what happens to the body. I used to play football in high school and run up and down mountains in Korea but for more than 10 years I didn't do much regular exercise. The doctors noticed there was something wrong and told me but I did nothing. It's been 3 consecutive mornings I did exercise before checking my cellphone.
From this Sunday I decided to do something. I don't allow myself to look at my cell phone unless I have finished at least 20 minutes of exercise. Sometimes I can run and sometimes it is more of a power walk. I took a picture from the window where I exercise this morning.
I used to run up and down the mountain behind the house but now my knees are shot and I don't have time anymore. It's better for me to exercise inside especially on high pollution or bad weather days. Today it was raining.
Looks very rural, but you talk of pollution so maybe there's an industrial wasteland behind those trees?
Pollution comes with the wind. It's origins are clear. Luckily Seoul just just avoided the heavy pollution today. Seoul is like this. It looks rural in places and a few steps away it looks like a scene from Blade Runner. I guess it's the Yin and Yang thing going on.
erm... pollution may be carried by the wind, but I wouldn't blame it for producing it! lol. That's the gangster corporation paying off useless politicians (often now their own people - is probably a job now, corporate politician) to be allowed to pollute without paying any fines.
The big scam is to then blame individuals for things they didn't do while also promoting fake environmentalism.
One of the biggest black psyops is to point a finger and shout loudly to blame someone else for what that finger itself is doing.
Why does nobody know this??
It doesn't take a genius to follow the pollution patterns to a few cities on the east coast of C Nation.