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Rigid (health and the like)
Sep. 2nd, 2014 11:43 amSince it's the beginning of the month, and September notoriously has 30 days in it, I feel it's THE perfect time to kickstart my habit-forming month.
Habits (and schedule) I'm trying to develop:
~brushing my teeth (read toward the end of my wordy entry in my health-tracking journal![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sailor_diello regarding why).
~getting up with the FIRST alarm (and stretching) so I can make breakfast and don't have to rush out the door.
~practicing the violin EVERY day (I've been majorly slacking)
~strict exercise routine (check my other lj for how the first session went yesterday, if you want).
~reading every night (gotta remember to set deadlines for finishing books, too).
~and actually keeping the schedule I made for myself.
And learn to split my hobbies up throughout the week. I've been doing just sewing, and it's so involved that I moved the machines into the living room so I can watch tv. I think I wouldn't need to do that if it was just once a week or so. I can sew a skirt or something small in just a couple of hours, max. But what's got me chained right now is a dress. Trying my first dress! Welcome to Night Vale themed!! There's a lot happening - lots of parts, lots of irreversible mistakes... so after I finish this dress (and three skirts, and two hand towels I've been sitting on, which can be done in a day), I'm splitting my hobbies.
I've been drinking a lot more water the past couple of weeks and I think my bladder is finally starting to relax about it.
My legs are so sore from yesterday's (first official) workout. I felt pain in my hamstring doing lunges (and so switched to assisted lunges) and thought I was done for, but was able to walk it off, and it didn't hurt when I did squats. I'm SO out of shape that I have decided to work chiefly with bodyweight before going back to my free-weights. Ideally, I'd like to get the strength back in my knees, and gain strength in my arms enough to do a pullup (it's apparently a totally different set of muscles doing bench-presses with a barbell weighing 50 lbs, because that's not a huge problem (though, like I said, not going back to that right away), while doing a simple pushup or preacher-curls is TOUGH. What the fuck, arms?!
Speaking of sewing, though, instead of marathoning shows, I've decided a few nights to dent my movie watch list and have watched a bunch of movies and counting.
Doot-da doot-da doot, the end.
Habits (and schedule) I'm trying to develop:
~brushing my teeth (read toward the end of my wordy entry in my health-tracking journal
sailor_diello regarding why).~getting up with the FIRST alarm (and stretching) so I can make breakfast and don't have to rush out the door.
~practicing the violin EVERY day (I've been majorly slacking)
~strict exercise routine (check my other lj for how the first session went yesterday, if you want).
~reading every night (gotta remember to set deadlines for finishing books, too).
~and actually keeping the schedule I made for myself.
And learn to split my hobbies up throughout the week. I've been doing just sewing, and it's so involved that I moved the machines into the living room so I can watch tv. I think I wouldn't need to do that if it was just once a week or so. I can sew a skirt or something small in just a couple of hours, max. But what's got me chained right now is a dress. Trying my first dress! Welcome to Night Vale themed!! There's a lot happening - lots of parts, lots of irreversible mistakes... so after I finish this dress (and three skirts, and two hand towels I've been sitting on, which can be done in a day), I'm splitting my hobbies.
I've been drinking a lot more water the past couple of weeks and I think my bladder is finally starting to relax about it.
My legs are so sore from yesterday's (first official) workout. I felt pain in my hamstring doing lunges (and so switched to assisted lunges) and thought I was done for, but was able to walk it off, and it didn't hurt when I did squats. I'm SO out of shape that I have decided to work chiefly with bodyweight before going back to my free-weights. Ideally, I'd like to get the strength back in my knees, and gain strength in my arms enough to do a pullup (it's apparently a totally different set of muscles doing bench-presses with a barbell weighing 50 lbs, because that's not a huge problem (though, like I said, not going back to that right away), while doing a simple pushup or preacher-curls is TOUGH. What the fuck, arms?!
Speaking of sewing, though, instead of marathoning shows, I've decided a few nights to dent my movie watch list and have watched a bunch of movies and counting.
Doot-da doot-da doot, the end.
