I don\u2019t do all that much physical activity.<\/p>\n
I have a job where I sit most of the day (or, if I do get up, it\u2019s because I\u2019m walking to a meeting room to sit somewhere else) and, when I get home, the things that I enjoy the most are sedentary: watching things on the TV, playing video games, reading.<\/p>\n
I used to enjoy playing team sports, but it\u2019s hard to motivate myself to find<\/em> a team that doesn\u2019t mind having an out-of-shape misfit, much less actually going to practices or games. I still get somewhat intimidated by pick-up games with people I don\u2019t know and the people I do know tend to like doing the same things I like when we get together: watching things and playing video games.<\/p>\n And I\u2019ve tried to start or keep some kind of consistent gym routine but it\u2019s never stuck.<\/p>\n Anyway, this is all material that I\u2019ve covered in this blog before. What struck me recently is that I\u2019m going to feel like such a hypocrite when my son is born. For an extended period of his youth, I\u2019m going to want the kid to balance his sedentary and physical time, when I don\u2019t really do a good job of doing it myself.<\/p>\n In my head, though, it\u2019ll be much easier to motivate myself. Playing with my kid? That seems like it\u2019ll top watching an episode of Glee or playing an hour of Mass Effect 2. So maybe having a child will help solve some of that, just by merit of a child naturally wanting to expend energy.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure that having a baby in the house may also cut down on the amount of time I can spend just sitting on the couch. But it\u2019s something I\u2019ll have to make an effort to do: be more active, if nothing else for the simple fact that my son will be watching me. And I need to set a good example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t do all that much physical activity. I have a job where I sit most of the day (or, if I do get up, it\u2019s because I\u2019m walking to a meeting room to sit somewhere else) and, when I get home, the things that I enjoy the most are sedentary: watching things on the […]<\/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":[20,267,199],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-baby","tag-exercise","tag-sports","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}