Fitness report

Today I did a modified version of the Desk Workout, which is bodyweight exercises that don't include floor work. Since I am so heavy and awkward, floor work is especially difficult for me. With the Desk Workout I still get lower body and core work, so it's all good! The workout is very simple, and I do it in my bathroom because it's got the only suitable wall and has something with a sturdy seat, lol! So it's a very space-saving set of exercises.

As far as cardio goes, I've done half a mile with Leslie Sansone so far today. I need to do more walking! Motivation follows action, so I should just get started with it. I don't know why I am putting it off, I actually get a lot out of walking! I guess it's just the habit of inactivity.
I do have a habit of physical inactivity. I don't know when I developed it, but I'm recognizing it now. I don't know if it came before the weight and caused it, or after the weight because of it. It doesn't really matter, because it is going to change now. My range of motion is limited in many ways because I have become so inflexible, but I am doing stretches and range of motion exercises to change that. I am moving my body through space and encouraging it to bend and flex in many ways. I look forward to being able to say, "I move fluidly and gracefully." I know it won't happen overnight. I will probably have to start yoga or something in addition to the cardio and strength training.

The thought of adding yet another set of exercises is somewhat daunting. It already feels like I am exercising all the time! I am lucky in that my work is part-time and done from home, so I have breaks during the day and privacy to do intermittent work-outs through the day. I also have no children or pet responsibilities to fulfill. So really, I am in an ideal position to take charge of my physical condition. Many other people have to squeeze things in however they can, so I know that I am lucky to have the opportunities I do. Of course, I have tremendous deficits to overcome physically, so maybe it is just going to take more work on my part at first. As I approach a more normal level of physical condition, maybe the exercising will take less time but with more intensity, so that it evens out. A walk that takes me 20 minutes now might could be done in 10, a five-mile walking DVD can be done in an hour, and the strength training that goes so slowly now can be done in 15 minutes because that's how long it takes in the instructional video. So I will be able to do more in less time, as I become more in shape.

It is hard to be starting out so deconditioned. That's a word that I picked up somewhere in all the reading I have been doing, and it perfectly describes where I am at. The human body was meant to have a certain level of functioning through natural processes of movement and nutrition. Through diet and lack of activity, I have fallen below that standard, to become deconditioned. I am now in a therapeutic self-directed program of reconditioning. My goal is to become a person in good condition. So that's the condition my condition is in, to quote an old song I can't quite recall.

So that's what's going on with me. It's a good day, I did some strength training and cardio, need to do more, thinking about adding yoga eventually, and recognizing that I have a long way to go but that I am on my way.