If you want to be healthy, inside and out, incorporating exercise into your life is important. Research has shown that regular physical activity is a major contributor to effective weight loss, improved physical health and emotional well-being. Ready to finally commit to getting in shape?
"I have gone to the gym for 5 days this week so I have reached my goal. Balancing homework, work, school, free time, and getting enough sleep is proving to be difficult. I am managing but as I progressed through the week it got increasingly harder. I think once I find a better way to manage my time each day, it’ll get easier. Even after just one week of working out, I’ve noticed physical and mental changes. I’m already starting to look more physically fit and lift heavier weights and do more reps. I also feel less lethargic and tired."
"This really has been an effective tool. I wasn't exactly skeptical, but I fully expected to half ass it more than I have. We'll see what happens in the winter, but I know the closer I get to the marathon, the more I'll want to *not* flake"
"Okay I did it! Depending on when you count my weekly start day, I either already fulfilled it (Sat, Tues, Thurs, Fri) or I will today after my long run at noon (Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat). And none of them were cop-out workouts ("meh, I did 6 crunches, good enough"). Woohoo!"
"damn, missed a day yesterday. I was traveling and with friends. Social life makes it difficult to escape to a side room and get on the floor and stretch for five minutes. I suppose I can even do something standing in a public restroom, if I'm being honest with myself, so no excuses.
I did wake up today and think of stretching before anything else. I did five minutes now. If I do another five minutes tonight, am I good for yesterday and today?"
"Emma, at 5:15 am: I'll just get up and not work out yet. I can do it later, no big deal.
Emma, nanoseconds later: uggggghhhh I have to do it now because otherwise I won't do it and then I'll owe Emily $5 and that would be THE WORST.
Upshot: I did the gazelle for 30 and did some upper body strength stuff with resistance bands. So thanks and/or screw you!"
"I don't think that I can change my commitment details, but from now on my intention is to lift 6x and run 3x per week (alternating run days). Slowing my run pace to make it more of a warm-up/cool-down for lifting. "
"I was inspired by a TED Talk that I had run across about self-control and impulsivity. If anyone would like to view it themselves, I will add a link at the bottom of this journal entry. This is my first time ever using, let alone hearing, about this website so I thought I'd give it a go!
Mollie will be my recipient that I must pay if I do not achieve what I committed to: Exercise 3 days each week
And for each week I do not complete my commitment, I will give Mollie Witsman 5 dollars, directly from my bank account. I chose my father, Charles Witsman, to be my referee. And well...let's see how this plays out!! If it proves effective, I will then begin committing other habits I wish to change, moving towards a more healthy lifestyle!!!"
"Okay I ran and lifted on Tuesday, I ran today, I'm going to go to the Y tomorrow and do arms, then Saturday will be my long run. It was not the best week for fitting all my shit in, but I'm going to get it done goddamn it!"
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Week 1 Day 1 - Run 1.5m, Meditate 18', Studied VAR
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"Managed to do the stretches for 5 minutes before coffee. This appears to be a good illustration that a fear of loss is a better motivator than a promise of gain."
"I unfortunately did not accomplish my goal last week. In part this is ok because I need to see what the app does when a goal is not accomplished.
This week though I am in motion to get it done!"
"I went to Yoga class on Wednesday night, Friday night, Sunday morning and Tuesday morning = 4 days this week and walked the dog every day, so Yeah! I did it!"
"I don't have the money to spend on losses every single, time, I ned the wins, I will defned my good habits, from literally everythign in orer ot frekaing win. Social commimtents er to be treated proefssionally and as work. "
"Geting on top of all of your work, and commitments, adn making sure you wake up early, even if It means sacraficing a little bit of healht for the short term for the logn term gians means tha tyou can absolutely be as disicplined as you want, you can absolutley have an amazing blog and be on top of literally everythign else. the no drugs policy and short fast really works. I need to asses the critical points, and wake up early, its true there are so many morning hours to the days. This project only works for msyelf if I implemetn. The notecard must be attakced RELENTELSSLY! "
"reading about reports now and I am happy to have delivered on two days out of two, but I am still nervous about not reporting in time. I don't want to lose the money to my anti-charity just because I could not follow the instructions to the Stikk account correctly. I think I just have to report on the 22nd of October, so, so far so good."
"I've been working such weird hours (which is bad), I don't know what counts as what day. But, because I was in bed most of Monday to recover from Sunday in the office, I'm going to do four stretches each remaining weekday this week. I've done four this "Tuesday" now."
"Even though I hadn't set the commitment to start until Oct 14th, I started exercising last week to give myself a head start and build my motivation to continue doing this. It has been very fulfilling and I believe I should be able to keep up with my goal!!"
"I can’t track my body fat percentage at the moment, but I am walking, and exercising more often and controlling my eating so hopefully this should fall"
