kozaru

OK, so mostly, I’m lazy. I get ideas to do stuff, and the universe sorts it so that something or other happens, and I miss some time I need to do a thing, and I give up.
I’ve managed to continue with Kung Fu, although the last couple months it’s been tough to get to every class cos of family stuff.

I’m sort of on a diet again – I say sort of because I’ve barely done what I’m supposed to in the last fortnight, and my weight has not really changed.
I am crap at getting exercise, see above. I do it for a little while, then it seems my available time just shrinks down to nothing. Motivation is a big part of that I guess.
So I started looking for stuff that was quick and easy and works.
The first thing I looked at, which I checked out a little while ago and yeah, motivation issues came up, was one hundred pushups. It’s a program to get you from 0 to 100 in 6 weeks. There are 3 levels, the one you follow is based on an initial test of how many you can do at the start, and based on age.
I managed to get 14 out for my test, which means I take the hardest level. Last night was week 2, day 2, 66 pushups total broken into 5 sets – 15/13/11/11/15 (last set is as many as possible, at least a particular number. This was 15.). I am coping with the program, including passing the minimum on the last set each day, which is going a long way to encouraging me to continue. If I was struggling each day, I’d pack it in I think, although the smart thing would be to drop a level, repeat the week, then bring it up again.

The next step I want to take is a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit. I calculate about $650 worth of hardware with extra controller and nunchuck bits and stuff to get the most out of it. I’ve read a few reviews and some personal success story stuff on the Wii Fit, but also some negatives. I know it’s not meant to be a home gym or anything like that, but the exercises it has seem to be better than nothing. And aside from noticing when you lose weight, one of my big demotivators is not being able to see change or benefit. The Wii tracks and graphs everything you do on the Fit, so you can set goals and watch them get reached. Most programs seem to be about 30-45 minutes, and I spend more than that eithr online after work or watching tv or playing XBox anyway, so I figure if I treat it like gaming, I’m more likely to go for it.

Now that I’ve actually blogged about doing stuff, the likelihood of me finishing it approaches zero, so we’ll see what happens.