Day 2: Exercise #30Day Challenge

Heya! (:

I just completed my day 2 of the morning exercise challenge. I increased my jumping jacks to 20 (yesterday I did 10) and added squats to the mix.

I learned a while ago that the right way to do squats is to make sure your knees don’t go farther from your toes when you’re near the ground, (How to do squats) so I tried to make sure they didn’t but it’s difficult because your center of balance is such that your knees would normally cross the toes. Anyway I managed to keep my knees on the toe level, I didn’t cross it.

Day 1

Day 2:

50x HIGH KNEES

20x JUMPING JACKS

5x SQUATS

Thinking of adding planks to the routine so I can start working towards a flat tummy. Let me know what else I should add to get an overall toned body.

I’m not doing this challenge to increase or decrease my weight. I think everyone should first develop a basic habit of exercising and eating right. Usually this will normalize all small issues automatically but if after 6 months it doesn’t, then you can think about adopting a specific exercise regime based on your weight goals.

Cheers!

Hard Work Is The Answer, Or Is It?

1. Get in the middle of a situation where you have to decide whether you want to make you heart happy, or your future-self happy.

2. Realize that what your heart wants is idling around and enjoying at home with zero hard work or effort. Thus it strives to keep you safely tucked in your comfort zone.

3. Have a few friends tell you that they think you should go with the option that requires hard work.

4. Give in to their persuasion and accept the hard work choice.

5. Later listen to your brain telling you that all that hard work will be for nothing because that particular option steers you away from your long-term goals and pushes you towards a path of mediocrity.

6. Finally come to the conclusion that the options presented to you were rigged because there was no right choice. You were being tested for something completely different and you are yet to understand what it was.

7. Hope for the best and give in to the daily grind for no particular reason, except for working hard because “We must work hard!”, even when it leads you nowhere.

A Giant Wall of Steel

Scared of starting something new. And by scared I mean, a paralyzing fear that builds a giant solid wall of steel between you and the task at hand. You know you have got to destroy the wall but you can’t possibly destroy a thick steel wall, right?

What you don’t know however is that once you decide to destroy it and go near the wall, you will find out that there is a way around it because the wall was high but it wasn’t long.