"Do or not do. There is no try" Yoda, Star Wars IV
That's been my motto this week as I got stuck into my cardio. I've learned now after hours of walking and biking to not think about what I'm doing. You know thoughts like ‘ I really don't want to go for a walk cos looks like its going to rain." "Is the hour up yet?", "Not another hill", "Has it been 10mins on the bike yet?". I'm sure you know what I mean if you're doing cardio too. So this week I just let myself just do it, or when I go walking outside with Trix, I just let her lead me so it saves me thinking about what I'm actually doing! I found this strategy has made my cardio less stressful. But at the same time, since I know I have a target I need to reach there's no ifs or buts, I have to do it and amazingly I do.
In the past week before breakfast (week 11) I'm varying my morning cardio between 30min interval bike and 45min bike and treadmill to breakup the monotony. Then there's the 20min after breakfast for Trixie's constitutions. Another 1hour in arvo, then I've just started 30min every other night on the bike. So that all adds up to quite a bit eh? So very proud of myself I've been able to do that much, although my legs do felt quite heavy by the end of the week.
This week I'm averaging about 2hours a day. Earlier this year I couldn't have imagined I'd have enough energy or desire to do that much!!! I'm not the kind of girl who just plunges into things and cardio's the same. I started off slowly and getting used to the routine. Since finishing my 6 week challenge I continued with just 20min biking before brekky, and 30min in arvo with Trixie. And have slowly increased my arvo walk to hour hillwalking in sun or rain...or at least I can handle wee bit of drizzle. As for Trix, she doesn't care what the weather is she'll go out in any condition! |
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