Exercise is a chore for me, despite what my purchases of Wii Fit and EA Sports Active might have you believing.<\/p>\n
Given the choice, I\u2019d almost always pick to watch TV or play games or eat candy over exercising. It\u2019s just the easier path, the one of least resistance.<\/p>\n
But if I can manage to get two major elements in place, I think being fitter and healthier wouldn\u2019t be as much of a hassle.<\/p>\n
1. Form a routine
This is something that I\u2019ve tried to do several times. I\u2019ll exercise regularly for a few days, maybe even a week, at around the same time of day (either at work or at home) and then I\u2019ll forget or wake up late or have too much work one day and the whole thing will fall apart.<\/p>\n
So how do I make a routine more successful? Pick a time when I\u2019m almost always be free and may not be dependent on waking up early? Force myself to do it enough times that it begins to feel more like muscle memory than actual effort? I\u2019m not completely certain.<\/p>\n
2. Make it fun Does it mean joining a community team sport instead? Forming some kind of larger meta-game around exercising? Having a workout buddy that I can compete against? Again, I\u2019m not sure, but I know that figuring this out would also go a long way to keeping me motivated.<\/p>\n I know I have to get better at this, but it\u2019s never been a priority. I keep pushing it off because it\u2019s not fun to think about and it\u2019s not fun to do. I think concretely finding solutions to the two issues I outlined above would be major steps in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exercise is a chore for me, despite what my purchases of Wii Fit and EA Sports Active might have you believing. Given the choice, I\u2019d almost always pick to watch TV or play games or eat candy over exercising. It\u2019s just the easier path, the one of least resistance. But if I can manage to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[267,176],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-exercise","tag-health","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Wii Fit or EA Sports Active is a start. There are elements that feel a bit game-y, there are goals and achievements presented in a format I know and love, and I fire up my Wii to use them. But\u2026it\u2019s not quite enough. It still feels <\/em>like exercise to me, because it is exercise<\/em>.<\/p>\n