Image by Jeff Hester via FlickrProfessionally, I’ve worked well, and tried to surround myself, with people who multi-task well and get the job done. With such people, I feel a commonality of purpose and intention, as though we’re a team throwing a rugby ball to each other to get it down the field, regardless of weather, opposing force, state of general health and level of mud. This sort of group effort allows for much satisfaction and camaraderie upon completion.
This exergaming experience, and blogging about it, on the other hand, is generally a solo act. While I have a fantastic support network professionally and personally, I am the only one who can and must put in my hours of exergaming and other exercise; I’m also the only one who can write about my thoughts and experiences, because I’m the one living them. This personal effort has forced me to experience something that all people with active lives also experience – the time life crunch.
We all have things going on in our lives. I’m a wife and mother. I work, clean, do laundry, deal with my toddler’s active life and schedule (as well as a few tantrums) and my husband’s intense schedule; and I try to make some time for friends. I also, perhaps insanely, try to read and knit. Oh, and exercise and blog about it.
The exergaming and other exercise continue. I generally work out 60-90 minutes four to five times per week. My present exergame of choice continues to be Zumba Fitness. I hope to start a new 21 day challenge on EA Sports Active within the next couple of weeks, but don’t feel pressure to make a change too quickly.
Working out at the same time every day seems to help people keep at it. For me, the exercise is such a habit at this point, and I enjoy it so much, that I can and do work out happily at all times through the day. Depending on the day I’ll run in the early morning, or exergame in the morning or afternoon. It really depends what else is going on that particular day and when I can carve out a block of “me” time. A side note is that most of my daytime “me” time is generally handed over to exercise, with any evening “me” time revolving around knitting and reading.
Recently, as a few of you have noted, my blogging has fallen off a bit. It takes me 30-60 minutes to write a new blog piece. In a perfect world, I’d carve out that time every day on top of everything else. In my world, that time has moved over to other work most of the time. But now that I’m recognizing this lapse, and the cause, I can accommodate to it and make sure the blogging happens more often (again).
Presently, I have a bunch of backlogged ideas, but if you want to hear about anything in particular, feel free to email me, and I’ll be happy to write about that.
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