Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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You have all heard the hype about the benefits of exercising – cardiovascular health, improvement in mood [endorphins anyone?], weight control, boosting energy, stress relief, the ability to sleep better and even the promise that it will be fun. Those of us who by nature would rather read a book than play sports and who don’t really enjoy that sweaty feeling aren’t buying it, but we do tend to feel a bit guilty about our sedentary lifestyle now and then.
With all that in mind, this year my Lenten vow was to get on that exercise bike and increase my time by one minute each day. By April 4th I was over 30 minutes, and ten days ago I hit my target of 45 minutes a day and I have been doing that every day ever since. Well I did skip two days – Easter Sunday and last Saturday – but I am still well over the cardio recommendation of 150 minutes a week.
And my friend asked me if I noticed a difference yet.
*sighs* I have to admit that I don’t see a lot of changes yet. Sometimes at night I am exhausted when I get off the bike and I certainly am not getting any kind of high from the activity. My legs hurt. My ankles continue to swell and cause problems. I can’t say I have been sleeping better. I don’t weigh myself every day but I don’t feel any slimmer. When you come right down to it, it hasn’t made a real difference yet and that is really discouraging. But the only real downside to this regime is that it takes a chunk of time for an activity that I don’t really enjoy, so for now I’ll stick with it, but all that hype is just that-- hype.
Intellectually I know this is good for me, but so is broccoli, neh? And don’t even get me started on cooking spinach…..
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