Goals
5 November 2009 | 7 Comments
So after chatting with
Steve (he's so helpful, all of you are) I realized not only have I accomplished a few real goals I set for myself in the way of exercise but I am ready for a new one. I don't want to push too far, something really attainable.
Here were my goals so far:
- Get back to the gym *CHECK*
- Make it an entire workout without asthma attack *CHECK*
- Do entire route (nearly 2 miles) on bike and making it over every hill *CHECK*
- Do Week One workout of c25k entirely *CHECK*
Now I'm not sure if I want to move onto
Week Two or if I want to try for longer time. I guess my question is, what is better? To increase my time on the treadmill or increase my speed? You see, I've never really had an interest of doing a 5k, I just want to be really healthy and in shape. At the same time I want actual atainable goals, goals that won't be too hard to attain. Small steps.
Oh and Aurora is mad at me for doing this to her. And by mad I mean she is a lot meaner to me than she usually is. But it's worth it for this picture.
Everybody’s different, obviously, but when I started working out, my goals were to lose weight and increase endurance. At first I could only go 10 minutes on the treadmill, but I gradually increased my speed on it. Eventually I increased the time and the speed.
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Robin Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
@Barb, yeah i’ve come to realize that increasing the speed, at least at this point, is what I want to do.
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Robin, great job on the goals so far! I think the key is to just keep doing something. If we are moving, we are succeeding.
BTW, I love the pic!
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Robin Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
@South Beach Steve, i like to move it move it!
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Since you asked, and you aren’t really interested in doing a 5K I think that I’d work on increasing speed rather than distance. I rarely walked more than 30 minutes, but I always tried to increase the intensity. I still do that to this day.
Congrats on all your goals – I’m so happy for you!
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Robin Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
@Diane, Fit to the Finish, thank you, yeah speed seems like what is working best.
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I could have sworn that I posted here yesterday, but I guess not lol. Good luck w/ whichever choice you make…you can’t go wrong! Love what you did to the cat!!!
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