I love this thread as I am currently trying to get into a daily exercise habit. When I decide to do 4/5 days of exercise, the procrastination/overthinking bug gets in the way. I find myself sitting on the couch debating whether I should run today or tomorrow, counting how many days I have left in the week to fit it in etc. It's ridiculous, really. If I commit to daily exercise that debate is over.
I have the same reaction to exercise at night. I try to wrap it up by 7:30 and then I have less sleep disturbance. My preference is to exercise in the early morning and the I can go through the day with a clear head.
Yes, initially I had difficulty sleeping with evening exercise but body eventually adjusted as there is no way on the planet I would get up early to exercise. I barely get up in time to work, and they pay me to do that!
I'm with you on this. I tried for the longest time to be a good little morning exerciser, but it just isn't me and my work-outs were not effective. Now, I exercise when I feel best and when it fits. People caution against this, but I have never missed a work-out because of my strange schedule.
Since I decided to exercise daily, I have literally just done it..whenever, whereever. The interesting thing is that after the first night...it no longer bothered my sleep. I was feeling sick last night....and thought, man, I better not walk. But I took my 30 minute walk anyway and actually felt better when I came home. So far I have only walked the dog outside and used my wiifit for walking. However, I am planning on doing 30 minutes of continuous exercise daily....so if I do a video, my elliptical, whatever. I just love the daily part...it is SO SIMPLE, but has taken the "mind game" out of it for me. I know I am repeating myself...but this has been such an eye-opener for me.
I had not really thought about your body needing a day of rest. I am not working out hard enough for that yet...lol.
Me too! Maybe when I try to run or something I'll actually give myself a break for a day. But I usually just get my heart rate up for about 10 minutes during an exercise. And I do them in short twenty minute bursts through the day.
I've been exercising 5 days a week for the last two months or so, and now I've bumped it up to daily. Let's see how this goes :-)
I myself set aside mornings for exercise. If I don't do it right when I get up, I won't do it at all, I know enough to know that about myself. After the first week of going to bed at 10 and getting up at 6 (I was NOT a happy camper), it became really easy and now my body just wants to get up this early.
I exercise everyday. I do planned workouts most days but if I'm too sore of otherwise not feeling well, I'll take a walk or something.
When my kids are in school, I get up early and exercise before waking them for the day. This summer though, I've just sort of done it whenever I got around to it. I'm just the type of person who is going to get it done before the day is over one way or another, so I don't worry too much about not setting a schedule or anything to make myself stick to it.
I have been doing 30 minutes a day and it has been so easy, so I decided today to up it a bit I plan to walk my dog for 30 minutes a day (the dog really looks forward to it) and then I plan to use my wii for 30 minutes a day. I really want to get into the strength training and yoga.
I try to exercise 6 days per week, but I LOVE the weeks where I get it to all 7 days. This week, I took Wednesday off because I felt nauseous. Then, today I had Dr's orders to not exercise for 24 hours (well, not to sweat because I had a biopsy on a abnormal mole). Just like always, I get moody on the 2nd day off. That's why I got to 6 days a week. If I let more than a day go by now, I feel grumpy. I love it and hate it. Right now I am so frustrated about my bad mood. It's like the serotonin high is backfiring on me On top of it, I find I want to splurge on snacks and bad food the 2nd day (but not the first day off).
I need to get into the habit of exercising daily as well. Somebody said earlier about when they set a certain number of days a week, they bargain with themselves, saying, well, I can do it tomorrow... I am the exact same way!! I need to get to the point where I am doing some kind of physical activitiy (even if it's not a hardcore workout lol) for 30 minutes every single day. Although I'm lucky in that it doesn't matter what time I exercise. I am NOT a morning person, so I when I exercise I usually exercise at night right before bed and then I take a shower and go to sleep
I have been a daily exerciser foor years a couple hours.....and BOY do I hate to miss it. I usually will take a day off if we are traveling in the car all day or my husband has something planned. Or we have company and I cannot sneak some in some where. Once it becomes a habit its a BIG ONE!!!
I plan to walk my dog for 30 minutes a day (the dog really looks forward to it) and then I plan to use my wii for 30 minutes a day. I really want to get into the strength training and yoga.
On top of it, I find I want to splurge on snacks and bad food the 2nd day (but not the first day off).
