The problem is that I don't like exercise. It's a bit like naturism....a bit unrewarding done for its own sake!
I know I should take more exercise than I do but I just can't find the motivation to make it daily or more regular than the 3 occasions per week I do now.
My wife has been doing a good job over the last year or two trying to combat her arthritis aches and pains and trying to exercise the cardiac muscles a bit more by riding a static bike daily and she rarely misses a day nowadays.
In theory it would be the easiest thing in the world for me to do 15 minutes yoga every day or a 30 minute walk but...somehow the motivation never lasts and the many things that crop up in a week make allocating a fixed time for this a non-starter.
The first thing in the morning theoretically is a good time for such things but I am emphatically not a morning person. I wish I was...up at dawn, yoga, shower, healthy breakfast and greet the tasks and events of the working day with 3 or 4 hours of virtuous activity already behind me.....but that's not how it is.
I wake late (8-9am) feeling crusty and stiff to say the least (unless I've had something that I need an early alarm to get up for). I might pick up a book and read for a bit or otherwise pass another 30 or 45 mins waking up. Then I'll go and make a cup of tea and some toast or cereal and take it to my wife in bed. Her arthritis means it's hard to walk around and use the stairs for a while most mornings so I take her breakfast up. If its fine weather I might eat my breakfast in the garden but most days I go back to bed too to drink the tea and look at emails and catch up with correspondence etc. By this time it's 10-10.30 or even later!
My brain and body are much more active in the evening. About 8 or 9 pm onwards is where I do things that need study or typing longer correspondence. I often go on this forum late at night. I'll finish about 11.30-midnight or even a bit later and make a bedtime tea, take a shower and settle down with a book (Just finished a great book by Lee Smolin - Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - looking at possible realist theories to substitute or complete the gaps in Quantum Theory - challenging reading) or maybe a phone game (yes, I know you shouldn't play screen based games at bedtime!) and might not drift off until 1.30 or 2am which is why 9am... 7hrs later is waking up time. I guess yoga at 10pm is a possibility but it never seems to occur to me to do this at the time!!
Where am I going wrong?
John
