I failed miserably at my 4 week plan. Everything started out so well, and then I missed one day, then it was Amy’s birthday (yeah I’ll try to get away with blaming someone else for my mistake), then we moved, then the holiday parties came up and so on and so on.
It did provide extra motivation to make it to the gym, its just that once I failed for the first time, it became a slippery slope downhill.
Bad news sports fans, I missed a day. I had a buddy in town visiting last night and I wanted to hang with him instead of ditching him to hit the gym. There’s still hope though, if I work out on Thursday, instead of taking a day off like originally planned, I can still get in my 5 nights of exercise for the week. The problem is that I have plans that night and may not have time. We’ll see. Either way I’m re-adjusting my schedule to try to make up for it and hopefully it will work out.
I’ve never felt so guilty for missing the gym before….
Nothing gets me in the Christmas mood more than pictures of Santa…unless of course you’re looking at some of those crazy Santa pictures that I brought up last year. If that’s the case then I should re-state my position; nothing scare me more than pictures of Santa.
Enjoy!!
Revisit “Stay Away From Me Santa!”
Today is the first day of the second week of my four week exercise program. If you’re just joining us, I started this experiment of blogging about my exercise routine in an effort to use “public shame” 
as motivation to keep me on course towards getting more exercise during the holiday season. Every day I post whether or not I made reached my goal for that day of hitting the gym. If I don’t make it? Well I get to put a nice big shameful “X” on the chart.
So far things have gone well, I hit all of my goals for last week and I have today off. Below is my planned schedule for this week. As I mentioned earlier, a successful first week, usually gives me an excuse to slack off the next week so this should be interesting to see how I respond.
Google Maps for your phone has a new beta feature called My Location that been released that can determine your approximate location, EVEN IF YOU DON’T HAVE A GPS PHONE! Without getting technical, it can triangulate your position using the different cell phone towers to get an idea where you are. A lot of you may have heard about this with some of the 911 technology for cell phones. And if you have a GPS phone? Even better, it can determine your exact location.
So no more endless typing into your cell phone where you are and what you are looking for. Just hit “0” on your keypad and let the application do the work for you. Since it’s in beta, not all phones are supported.
The Google Help Page offers the following phones as currently supported, I have an SE phone but, alas, I’m not lucky enough to try it out yet.
Anyone have a chance to test it out? Please let me know what you think.
Just came back from the gym today so week one is officially in the books. Look for week two’s plan tomorrow (I’m calling Sunday a rest day anyway).
Well, I may not be keeping up with the daily posts but I am happy to report that the streak continues. After taking Wednesday off I made it to the gym on Thursday and did my cardio on Friday. It was a switch from the original plan but I figured that putting the cardio in between two gym days might be a good strategy.
As long as I make the gym again today, I will have completed my entire goal for week one. Not as bad as I thought in terms of sticking to it but I’ve found in the past that it’s the next week coming up that usually makes it difficult. After a successful week of exercising, it can be easy to use that as an excuse to take it easy during the second week. We’ll see though.
