February Exercise #ReadersWorkouts
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Welcome to Readers’ Workouts, the weekly event where book lovers share workout stories, goals, successes, and challenges.
Last week, I needed a big day to meet my goal of 1200 minutes in January — and, I did it! I walked 75 minutes and stretched for 15 minutes, giving me the 90 that I needed to reach my goal.
For February, I decided to go with 1200 minutes again, even though it’s a shorter month. I’m hoping some nice weather days will help me with some longer walks. Today will be one of those, but, tomorrow, we may have snow!
In January, I tried a goal of “strength-training or stretching every day.” That worked most of the month but I broke my streak on the 22nd and that killed my motivation for the rest of the month. So, for February, I’m going to try a goal of “strength-training or stretching for at least 20 days.” We’ll see if that works better for me.
How is your exercise going?
It’s aggravating when one mess up derails you for the rest of the month. It’s happened to me many times.
Great job meeting your minutes goal. I had a lousy week – I think I really just need spring to get here.
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I saw a tip somewhere about using an app for motivation, so I’ve been using Coach.Me to get me to exercise daily and go to the gym at least three times a week. (Also to get to work early, but that’s beside the point for Readers’ Workouts!) I joined an early-morning YogaFit class in January and had a streak of not missing any classes (3x/week) until yesterday which was the day after a big snowstorm. Now I hope that doesn’t make me lose my motivation! I don’t think so, because once I realized that I really could get myself up and out to a 7 a.m. class even on the days I had to be to work at 9, I really like how energized I feel the rest of the day! I always have #ReadersWorkouts in mind, even I don’t blog about it, and I credit you as inspiration, so thank you for hosting this link-up!