gotta move

aside from a 5 minute strength piece on the parallettes and some walking to/from errands, i got 0% exercise yesterday. and i felt lousy. granted, my overriding goal was to study, and the weather outside was frightful, but i regret not getting on the rower for even 5 minutes.

we need to move every day. even in small ways. but i do think that movement should be unto itself. while doing errands yesterday, i probably did walk a mile or so (probably more than most americans, unfortunately), but that doesn't count. i should have walked around the block with my rain suit on. i should have done some squats and stretching at home.

going forward, i'm going to share some things that i do that i find quite difficult, and some things that you might think are very easy. the point is that we should be doing something, and even the small things count:
-stand on one foot for 1 minute, switch sides
-do 10-20 squats. gets hips below knees.
-kneel and lean back, getting your arms/head/shoulder blades to the floor
-walk around the block
-jump rope for 30 seconds 5x, or get to 200 skips in groups of 25
-do a hurdle stretch
-hold a plank pose for 1 minute
-accumulate 2 mins/5 mins/10 mins in a squat over time
-park your car in the depths of the mall parking lot, then walk out of your way in the mall

i have some co-workers that do 10 push-ups every hour. that's 80 push-ups in a day. not bad. i did 20 second parallete holds last night. gotta start somewhere. before i know it, those will be 1 minute L-sits. keep chipping away!