A month ago, on January the 14th I started my 30 days challenge. The goal was to exercise every day for 30 minutes and do it for 30 days. A few updates of how it went along the way can be found here. Today it ends. I don’t think many people were following the progress (maybe because the status updates were rather irregular). Anyway, for the few of you who did, here is the summary of how it all went.
Out of the 30 days I exercised 19. That means I skipped more than one third. Not good. I could say that half of the days I didn’t exercise I had the flu but that would be just an excuse I think, after all I was working during those days. Some days I just felt lazy.
So on one hand I didn’t really achieve the stated goal. Nonetheless I think I got pretty good results:
- I’ve exercised during this one month more than I did in the whole previous year.
- I know I’m going to exercise more in the future. I want to make it a regular habit. Maybe it won’t be every day but definitely every 2-3 days. Combined with walking to work and back (25 minutes each way) it should do me good.
- I’ve learned that the best time for me to do this kind of exercise is just after getting up in the morning. Since I’m getting up at 5 am I’ve got time to exercise before having breakfast and going to work. Later on it’s just more difficult to get myself to do it since I want to pursue other, more engaging, activities. But in the morning, just after getting up it can take some time to get my brain working at the right speed. Exercising makes this process faster and it doesn’t feel like a waste of time as if I was to just sit there for half an hour trying to wake up.
Overall I think it’s a positive result. Not exactly what it said on the box but still useful. The lessons I’ve learned are worth enough to compensate for those eleven missed days.
If you did follow the challenge I’d like to know your opinion about the final result.
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skiver…..
But then again, exercise shouldnt be constant since you need to let your muscles relax and re-energise for the next training session.. so all in all, you did good!
he he he. go you! and good luck with future exercises!
Once you get used to it it gets easier. I was able to exercise 7 days in a row without feeling tired.
i’m still wondering the need of starting the day at 5am… are the streets even there at that time of the day????
@A.Nurboe Well, getting up at 5am is kinda not related, it’s just that I have too many things I want to do to fit somewhere the exercise if I get up later. And the streets at 5am are there, just very empty!