Rudhraigh

So, this was a complete bust. I never really got around to taking it all that seriously, I think it might be a mixture of my normal laziness and also the fact that the last few weeks the floor of my room in Stockholm was covered in a miasma of crap that I was busily packing up, this giving me the only thing I needed to sidestep the idea of doing any exercise. An excuse.

Quite oddly, my life in exercise is determined by the fact that I would do more of it, if it didn’t take any more effort to do than the actual doing of it. Which is ridiculous because you don’t not eat simply because you can’t be bothered to cook, or clean afterwards.* Having to clear a space in mess or take a shower afterwards just makes me reach for the laptop instead.

So, while I reckon this might get revisited at some stage, right now it’s a solid FAIL

*Now you know why I’m so bloody skinny so often.

So, rather predictably, I haven’t done any of this.

For like, the last three or four months, I’ve been totally non-physical. I mean like, sitting at a desk or in bed for 12 hour stretches. The only exercise I get is walking to places, and I don’t even really do that a lot. It’s a complete mystery to me as to how I could conceivably go from where I am now to where I want to be. I guess it’s just a question of concerted effort. Actually it is of course a question of concerted effort, but there’s a step before that that I’m lacking at and I find it almost impossible to determine what that is.

I dunno, making an effort to do anything is not something I’m apparently awesome at.

Next week, I’m really getting into this. For mad realz.

So, due to a prolonged bout of flu and an even more prolonged bout of utter laziness, I have yet to get back on this. The programme is basically a increasingly tiered bout of pushups. I’ve always had a kind of weird addiction to the idea of getting fit and spending no money so the concept of doing pushups seems to be a winner. The only problem is that I usually try to get all my physical execrice done just before i go to bed, which is historically a kind of grey area in my routine, cause like just before you go to sleep isn’t exactly the time where you’re most motivated to do anything other than sleep.

Of course, the obvious answer is to do my exercise at some other time of the day, but for me it’s both a problem of habit and motivation. Trying to get myself to go to the gym, or get up early and exercise has never been a personal strong point. I hope that my move to New York will put a lot of this into focus by making it more convenient as well as putting me near hyper-competetive Americans.

So, anyway, I’m gonna get started on Week One of the programme. You can see the schedule here

I’m signing myself up for a home-based programme of ninjalike resistance training that will train my awesome physique up to being able to do One Hundred Pushups at a set. And then all of you will PAY*

*Not a real threat.