exercise by accident
I wrote this somewhere else and feel like, at the moment it sums up my view on exercising.
I quite like the idea that if all you’re looking for is to improve your general fitness is simply to do it ‘by accident’. It’s what I feel like I’m doing, I’m fitter now then I’ve ever been because I don’t exercise with any particular goal in mind – I exercise because I enjoy it, it’s sociable and because it makes me feel good.
I do a outdoor-boot camp type class 3 times a week and boulder a couple of times a week. Yes it feels like exercise but getting fit isn’t my primary motivation, having fun and feeling good are. Being slim, being able to run around and climb some pretty sweet routes are just awesome side-effects.
Find something you enjoy doing, do it regularly.
I’m a huge proponent of exercising by accident. Find something you enjoy doing (and that can be used as exercise) and do it regularly. That’s it.
Though, thinking about it I don’t feel like the gym falls under this really. Because it’s all by the numbers there – 10 minutes here, 20 repetitions there. When instead you should just be enjoying what you’re doing and that’s a harder thing to do when you can compare how ‘hard’ you worked to last time.
November 22, 2010