Finding the Time
I'm just talking my way through the work out thing, so this will be a boring entry:
My boss got us all memberships in the in-building gym (nice facilities), starting Oct 1.
I have gone exactly once, last Monday, and it's now Thursday the 22nd of October.
I do need to exercise.
I hate going to the gym.
The gym is the only place to get exercise right now because of the rate at which I am working.
Ergo: I am going to have to get over it.
The thing is, I am definitely less productive in the hour between 3 and 4, and that would be when it would be ideal for me to go to the gym.
Except the in building gym is NOT OPEN then. They open 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
I also eat dinner at the in building cafeteria at around 6.
There's a theory I've heard expressed that says you shouldn't exercise soon after you eat because it "stretches out your liver" and is "bad for your digestion."
Is this true?
Because once I sit down after coming up from dinner is when I get a lot of things done at the office, mostly because it's QUIET. So if I am going to go to the gym I need to go right after dinner when I am in my away-from-desk mode, because once I sit down back at the desk after dinner I do not get back up to go to the gym. Some people choose between dinner and work-out, but give me that choice and I choose dinner 100% of the time.
Plus, I hate the gym because I'm lazy about the before and after parts of working out at a gym - changing into gym clothes, that awkwardness of walking into a gym area, and then showering and getting back in my suit and putting my make up back on and blow drying my hair. I wonder what the heck that is about - that I don't mind working out but don't go because the thought of changing clothes and drying my hair stop me.
I am going to go to the gym today, I swear. It is going to be riight after dinner. I will ride a stationary bike for 30 minutes, and then stretch. I know that I should do strength training too, but the thing I really do hate are those machines, and the point right now is to get to the gym at all 3 x a week (and added up it seems pathetically small - 90 minutes of concentrated exercise a week when I am spending 15 x 6 a week sitting still, letting stress and inertia build in my body).
My boss got us all memberships in the in-building gym (nice facilities), starting Oct 1.
I have gone exactly once, last Monday, and it's now Thursday the 22nd of October.
I do need to exercise.
I hate going to the gym.
The gym is the only place to get exercise right now because of the rate at which I am working.
Ergo: I am going to have to get over it.
The thing is, I am definitely less productive in the hour between 3 and 4, and that would be when it would be ideal for me to go to the gym.
Except the in building gym is NOT OPEN then. They open 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
I also eat dinner at the in building cafeteria at around 6.
There's a theory I've heard expressed that says you shouldn't exercise soon after you eat because it "stretches out your liver" and is "bad for your digestion."
Is this true?
Because once I sit down after coming up from dinner is when I get a lot of things done at the office, mostly because it's QUIET. So if I am going to go to the gym I need to go right after dinner when I am in my away-from-desk mode, because once I sit down back at the desk after dinner I do not get back up to go to the gym. Some people choose between dinner and work-out, but give me that choice and I choose dinner 100% of the time.
Plus, I hate the gym because I'm lazy about the before and after parts of working out at a gym - changing into gym clothes, that awkwardness of walking into a gym area, and then showering and getting back in my suit and putting my make up back on and blow drying my hair. I wonder what the heck that is about - that I don't mind working out but don't go because the thought of changing clothes and drying my hair stop me.
I am going to go to the gym today, I swear. It is going to be riight after dinner. I will ride a stationary bike for 30 minutes, and then stretch. I know that I should do strength training too, but the thing I really do hate are those machines, and the point right now is to get to the gym at all 3 x a week (and added up it seems pathetically small - 90 minutes of concentrated exercise a week when I am spending 15 x 6 a week sitting still, letting stress and inertia build in my body).