Wow! I thought I was going to be really smart and start right out and walk my one hour a day right away.
I am suffering for it now and I didn't even walk the whole hour. I walked 55 minutes. Then I came home and rode my exercise bike for about a minute until the barking of the dog drove me from the machine which makes the dog yap like she's got "mad dog" disease or something!
I ended up walking over three miles in that 55 minute segment. Probably not the smartest thing to do on the first "real" walk of the season. I felt really good while I was doing it, though. I didn't really hurt until about the last ten minutes.
Now I hurt though. I think the only thing that doesn't hurt is my little toe and that is because I can't feel it. If it doesn't hurt...it doesn't work!
I had a hard time sleeping because I kept aching.
Don't get me wrong, though. I am NOT complaining. The only thing I am really upset about is why didn't I do this earlier? What made me not go on a walk until last night?
I can name a few likely suspects like procrastination, laziness and more laziness.
Laziness is my biggest downfall. It makes me not do a lot of things that I really want to do.
The book I am reading Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About has a chapter called How to Lose Weight Effortlessly and Keep It Off. Walking for at least one hour, nonstop, per day is one of the recommendations.
I am not quite sure that this was "effortless", but it was nice before the pain set in. I anticipate that the pain will be replaced by a more acceptable feeling as I get my body conditioned to this exercise again.
The book says that it is "sad because people all over the world can walk for hours and hours and hours" and "people in America can't walk for an hour without getting tired or waking up the next day with sore ankles, knees, hips and legs." (Not to mention my back and arms too!)
What it means is that we desperately need exercise!
Have a great weekend and I hope when you do your walking that you don't hurt like I do, but if you do that you will walk past the pain and into the "gain!"
Be good to yourself and to one another!
Karin
Hi Karin,
ReplyDeleteIn addition to my normal weight lifting a couple times a week, I started riding my excercise bike in April, when the contest started.
Then, a couple weeks ago, when it got a little nicer, I started jogging. I am up to 3 miles now. I think excercise, when you are a little older (like 41 for me), will quickly expose your "weak link" physically. Like me, my cardio is excellent, and my legs and knees no longer hurt, but my ankles are always a little sore the first 10 minutes of my jog, and then the next morning. I keep thinking, "eventually I'll be in shape and my ankles won't be sore anymore." But I think my 41 year old ankles are my "weak link" and just are not fond of running any more.
I'll probably switch back to walking and biking after the contest. But I'll keep running through the pain til the contest is over!!