Got a perfect score on Wii Fit Soccer Ball Heading
Written by admin on September 6, 2008 – 1:32 am -I just about scared the collar off of one of my dogs when I yelled "YEEEAAAHHHHH!" at the top of my lungs, though.
Five hundred fifty-five points on beginner level. The advanced level is still eating me for lunch. I cracked 300 points once and most of my other tries were in the low 200s — a far cry from the maximum 655 points.
You’re reading this, and you might be thinking, whoopee, good for you, let me share my excitement, nah I’m not really excited, that’s lame.
Have I mentioned that it’s really easy to slack off on exercising? I’ve put in a half-hour tonight and last night but there was a pretty big hiatus, as in a few weeks. As it was, tonight I just did balance games — which is exercise but not a huge amount of exercise.
I was in good shape in graduate school ten years ago, but I was putting in 45 minutes to an hour, five or six days a week, on an elliptic trainer. That’s a fairly hefty routine. Now an accomplishment is playing Tilt Board, Penguin Slide, and Soccer Ball Heading a few times, not breaking a sweat, and writing about it. This wasn’t what I was doing ten years ago, or even two months ago.
Oh well. maybe I’ll get a bunch of exercise cleaning up after the storm. 
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Back in the swing of things a bit
Written by admin on August 5, 2008 – 1:42 am -I’d fallen off the wagon a bit with my hundred pushups workout so I dropped back to Week 3 tonight. (We were without air conditioning for a week, and doing much of anything physical was a chore.) At the suggestion of Fit36 I tried tightening up the rest periods between the levels, and ended up failing to do the minimum number of pushups on the max level all in one stint; I ended up five short (15, 12, 12, 10, 10) but went back to do the other five about 30 seconds later.
I’m still thinking that going for more pushups each workout, rather than trying to cut the breaks down to the prescribed amounts, is what I need. I’m more than happy taking a good long time to get through 100 pushups in a row, but I need to keep myself from getting injured, and I also need to lose some more of the weight. More pushups means more calories burned.
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Mix up your exercise with some volunteering
Written by admin on July 21, 2008 – 12:18 am -This weekend I participated in our Lions Club’s highway cleanup. We have a stretch of road about a mile long that we walk over every couple of months and clean of any trash we find.
It’s great to provide some community service. It’s also good exercise. Bending over, going up and down inclines in the median, carrying the bag of trash all exercise muscles that I don’t typically exercise. And at this point, any exercise I can get is a very good thing. I sure felt it afterwards.
For a lot of people this kind of work is part of an everyday routine, but for a desk jockey like me physical labor is something I have to go out of my way to do. One disadvantage of desk jobs is that they’re sedentary, so weight gain can creep up on you (as it did me) unless you take active steps to exercise and eat right.
Volunteering and sweating out in the sun for a couple of hours is one way to do that.
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