I can never trust my sneaky memory. I checked and it's actually been three years since I exercised. I stopped on 2020-08-24.
As hard as you can for like 5 minutes
I work from home so the past few weeks I've been thinking I'd do it for 10 minutes 6 times throughout the day. And if I cheat and sometimes it's only 5 minutes (or even less) or I only do it 3 times - that's okay. The key thing is doing it every day.
Start way easier. Like stupid easy. Like so easy it'd be stupid not to do it. Then commit and slowly build up.
Like today or tomorrow do it once for 2 minutes. The next time do it for 2.5 minutes. Then the next time do it for 3 minutes. Then the next time do it twice a day for 2 minutes.
Maybe even slower than that. Maybe only 15 or 20 seconds each increase. Maybe just start with 20 seconds.
To go from not exercising to having to convince yourself to exercise 6 times a day will be quite a challenge. From my personal experience if I did it like you have planned id have to constantly convince myself to do it. I'd have excuses, compromises, deals all ready to strike with myself.
Maybe start with 30 seconds or even less. 15 seconds! Then tomorrow youre already at 30 and after a week youre at 2 minutes! Make Make it so damn easy you can't convince yourself not to. Then put a plan in place so that there is minimal thinking or deciding. Once you do it for a few weeks then you can't start getting creative and swifty with it.
Good luck. It's the only thing that consistently gets me back lifting after a break. Like I'll take 100lbs off my lifts(or just bar, maybe I'll OHP 150 one day).
You can always do more if it's too too easy. Just keep it easy enough you come back for more.
Also there is a trick I use sometimes when I need to start something I don't want to do. I don't ever convince myself or agree to do it, I just sorta start moving without committing. Pull a fast one on my chatterbox brain.
if you can do that much without hurting yourself then go for it, you'll be doing that much more work! I've only ever been doing 30 minutes a day though. But I've considered doing more, I just take forever doing that 30 minutes already because I typically take so many breaks
There's no trick, you just take all these thoughts you have about how you should be doing it and then you say "fuck the part of me that doesn't wanna do this" and go get started. Maybe get super high first like I do
You do a bunch of other shit throughout the day that you don't wanna do, you have the power to make yourself sit on that machine, and you know that the mental and physical benefits you see afterwards will be worth it. Do it!
@AnarchaPrincess@hexbear.net got me started on the fitbit it’s fucking awesome. Like yeah giving your data to google is hell but at the same time having the little thing to check in, track progress and stuff hits the dog brain in the same way as posting it is very motivating
Before this I was hemming and hawing about needing to drop 15 lbs for like 2 years, now I can really see it sticking
I can never trust my sneaky memory. I checked and it's actually been three years since I exercised. I stopped on
2020-08-24.I work from home so the past few weeks I've been thinking I'd do it for 10 minutes 6 times throughout the day. And if I cheat and sometimes it's only 5 minutes (or even less) or I only do it 3 times - that's okay. The key thing is doing it every day.
I need to get back to that.
Start way easier. Like stupid easy. Like so easy it'd be stupid not to do it. Then commit and slowly build up.
Like today or tomorrow do it once for 2 minutes. The next time do it for 2.5 minutes. Then the next time do it for 3 minutes. Then the next time do it twice a day for 2 minutes.
Maybe even slower than that. Maybe only 15 or 20 seconds each increase. Maybe just start with 20 seconds.
To go from not exercising to having to convince yourself to exercise 6 times a day will be quite a challenge. From my personal experience if I did it like you have planned id have to constantly convince myself to do it. I'd have excuses, compromises, deals all ready to strike with myself.
Maybe start with 30 seconds or even less. 15 seconds! Then tomorrow youre already at 30 and after a week youre at 2 minutes! Make Make it so damn easy you can't convince yourself not to. Then put a plan in place so that there is minimal thinking or deciding. Once you do it for a few weeks then you can't start getting creative and swifty with it.
I'll think it over. My plan hasn't exactly been working!
Good luck. It's the only thing that consistently gets me back lifting after a break. Like I'll take 100lbs off my lifts(or just bar, maybe I'll OHP 150 one day).
You can always do more if it's too too easy. Just keep it easy enough you come back for more.
Also there is a trick I use sometimes when I need to start something I don't want to do. I don't ever convince myself or agree to do it, I just sorta start moving without committing. Pull a fast one on my chatterbox brain.
My brain is stubborn and obnoxious. It's hard to get around it.
if you can do that much without hurting yourself then go for it, you'll be doing that much more work! I've only ever been doing 30 minutes a day though. But I've considered doing more, I just take forever doing that 30 minutes already because I typically take so many breaks
I'm pretty good once I'm sitting on the damn thing. But, man, I don't know how I can trick myself to get started.
There's no trick, you just take all these thoughts you have about how you should be doing it and then you say "fuck the part of me that doesn't wanna do this" and go get started. Maybe get super high first like I do
You do a bunch of other shit throughout the day that you don't wanna do, you have the power to make yourself sit on that machine, and you know that the mental and physical benefits you see afterwards will be worth it. Do it!
@AnarchaPrincess@hexbear.net got me started on the fitbit it’s fucking awesome. Like yeah giving your data to google is hell but at the same time having the little thing to check in, track progress and stuff hits the dog brain in the same way as posting it is very motivating
Before this I was hemming and hawing about needing to drop 15 lbs for like 2 years, now I can really see it sticking
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