I've been pretty good about adhering to the plan (though we are only entering the second week of the program).  I find that I spend more time preparing to exercise (washing clothes, packing a gym bag, driving to the gym, fighting the crowd there, showering, rushing back to work/home) than I actually spend exercising.  The whole routine is exhausting.  Then, if the least little thing is "off", the whole routine seems to go haywire.  My workout today exhibits this point.  I was due to run a half hour on the treadmill and I couldn't complete it.  It wasn't that I was overly fatigued.  In fact, when things were said and done, I actually ran 33 minutes.  I forgot to wear contact lenses to work today and I need to take off my glasses to run so I couldn't see much.  I looked at my watch at one point and thought that I had better finish up because I needed to get back to work.  I cursed the crowd at the gym for slowing me down as I started my cooldown walk.  As I was walking, I put my glasses on, looked at my watch again, and cursed - this time myself.  I still had time.  I ended up starting to run again and I ran an extra three minutes to make up for the one and a half minutes I walked.

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Comments

• DHL54 2012/01/11
  Well said - thanks for your comments. Like going to the gym, the idea of being fit is much more appealing than the work required to bring that notion to fruition. Your insight that it is important to keep a flexible mindset is probably the key.
• daveroylance 2012/01/10
  Hi. I came to this site as a result of wanting to get back to my previous fitness goals. As an 18/19 year old, I lost over 4 stone of teenage weight and became fitter than ever. Now in my late 20s I have put the weight back on and want to get back to my fitness programme. I have tried many attempts at the gym before and understand where you are coming from. Like you, I have often found the idea of the gym to be more appealing than the actual workout and when tiredness, fatigue or general boredom kicked in, I often found myself making excuses to stop exercising. I am by no means in conditioned shape but my approach this time is to follow the routine but adopt a flexible mindset so that if one day I get bored, then I can change my approach without feeling I am abandoning my regime.