Walking&thinking - Actifit journals (11.12.2018.)

My super fantastic goal of reaching 20000 steps is still not achieved and I am getting slightly annoyed with myself. I think there is nothing else to do but to start exercising twice a day, two walks and one exercise is just not going to cut it.

To make that happen I will have to do some serious rearranging of my daily schedule. Some things will have to become shorter and some simply need to disappear. It is not an easy task to start living differently but what needs to be done will be done. I will get to those 20000 points per day.

I did both of my walks today, morning and the one in the evening and Orbitrek and my daily exercise routine but that one I did a bit differently. I usually do 20 exercises, each one for 20 seconds and after doing that for the last 7 days, today I added an extra 5 seconds to each exercise. Now I have a 20*25 exercise routine where every exercise lasts for 25 seconds. You would think that those extra 5 seconds are not a lot but they are, oh they so are. For the next 7 days, that is how the routine will look like and then I will make another change to push myself a bit further.

The thing I noticed today was that my morning walk and an evening one are quite different when it comes to speed. I am a morning person and very active once I have my coffee so being faster at the end of the day did not make much sense at first but then I realized that the music I was listening in the mornings and that which I listen in the evenings is not the same. Morning music is relaxing and gentle while that in the evening is pretty fast and it mostly contains various upbeat remixes. My body obviously responds to it well without me even noticing and I walk faster. I get it, there is a reason certain music is played at the gyms and why people exercise better while listening to it, I just did not realize that my walks were so much impacted by it. I listen to audio books, classical or meditative inspirational music in the mornings and very loud and fast in the evenings and during my exercising. How about you? What do you listen to while you exercise and do you see it helping you?