Body Building

[kingandy]

I am slip-sliding away from the 5BX program. It is just too much of a hassle to do every morning. I've missed a few days in the past - usually through sleeping around somebody's house, or LRP weekends - but this is the first weekend that I've woken up in my own bed and just not done it because I couldn't be arsed. Theoretically I should keep going and slip back a step or two on the chart for every day missed, but that's very dispiriting and on the whole I can't be bothered.

I will to keep up with some sort of exercise, probably some situps and maybe pushups, but definitely not the running-on-the-spot and likely not every day. (Probably every school day.) After all, I'm walking half an hour almost every lunch time, and anyway it's not as though I'm not already enough of a lanky streak of piss.

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[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

What is this 5BX thing you speak of?

I agree that exercise is one of the most boring things ever. If there was some way of somehow keeping the mind occupied/doing something productive at the same time, it'd be much more appealing. I tried doing cardio-vascular stuff at home and watching movies at the same time, but it doesn't really work.

your Google-fu is weak

[kingandy]

I meant to link this page on the post (and will retroactively insert it). Essentially, you spend eleven minutes a day doing the exercises in the prescribed amounts, which slowly increase from "looking at your toes twice" to "600 situps".

(In more detail: There's six charts, each with 12 steps. You start at the bottom of step 1, and when you can successfully do the allotted number of each exercise in the time given - not a particular challenge on Chart 1 - you move up a step. As a 25-29 year old I should be able to reach the top of Chart 4, but I'm currently halfway up Chart 2.)