Category: Exercise

(Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6  7 and 8) Before you make a plan (and more on those details later), you need some good reasons to keep you going.  Why make it a priority to get regular exercise at all? Obviously, there are lots of reasons (I'll list some in a minute), and different people will have different sets of reasons.  But…

(Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7) How did I learn to put personal exercise — for me — at the top of the priority list, and keep it there, for a year? I learned by putting my (generally very fit) husband's personal exercise at the top of the priority list for over two years. Mark has a few old…

(Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6) At the very top of every family's priority list are a whole slew of completely non-negotiable things that must happen every day. Keep the children alive.   Make sure everybody who works for a living keeps his job. Go to the bathroom regularly enough to keep from getting a UTI. Make sure people…

(Parts 1 2 3 4) Two quotes from my previous post: 1.  "If getting enough exercise to meet your own adult body's needs never becomes a high priority, you will rarely if ever do it." 2.  "With getting more exercise, one must take MORE for oneself. This is a barrier for a lot of us." It's a barrier because…

(Part 1)   By now I’ve written a great deal about my forty-odd-pound weight loss and my struggle to conquer gluttony*—what I called my diet of “not eating so damn much.”   I have written only a very little, so far, about the role that induced exercise (defined in part 1) played in my improved…