Fitness

I think I posted that in June I had a nasty respiratory infection that affected me pretty badly for nearly two weeks and then lingered on as a nagging cough for weeks after that. Until that point I’d been keeping to some good exercise and eating habits and I was fitting into smaller-sized clothes again. I tried to keep up the exercise even when sick but my body was determined to rest and so I had to get back on track. I thought I had got back on track in July but I couldn’t quite keep going and kept relapsing into bad habits and an inclination to doing very little activity. I suspect some of this was related to the usual winter malaise that hangs over me.

I finally got going again a few weeks ago and can happily say I’ve been on track since then. I mostly work with my Apple watch activity monitor and try to increase that every week. I do take one day off each week, the day I have tai chi. I still get some exercise but it’s a it’s not enough to meet daily requirements. Well that could happen some of the time but I am not making any special efforts towards it at the moment. I am keeping it truly as a rest day.

I really do feel it’s a mental battle on some days to force myself to get the minimum of exercise. But I find it easier to win that battle when I keep up than when I get lazy. I guess it provides a bit of momentum. It’s much harder when illness kicks in and makes you stop for long periods of time.