Meals today: Oats for breakfast, with currants stirred through; Subway for lunch: roast beef, no cheese, sweet chilli sauce; kangaroo for dinner (again).
No games for me today; there are some builders here, and they get here heinously early. For some reason, my stupid male pride - or perhaps my paranoia - doesn't really want to do Wii Fit whilst there are more blokish men around. And busting out the drum kit to play Guitar Hero by myself would look a bit odd.
So, I packed my shorts and a loose t-shirt in my bag for uni, and went there. I was planning to walk down the hill to the bus stop (and then back), but damn it all if I wasn't already running late when I couldn't find my ID. And then, to make matters worse, when I had decided to drive to the station instead, I couldn't find my keys. So, yeah, I was late for uni, and I had missed out on some precious incidental exercise.
Incidental exercise is pretty important. It's basically the reason most people can stay in shape without constantly going to the gym, and the downfall of incidental exercise has been blamed for the current obesity crisis. With this in mind, I'm trying to find ways to increase my incidental exercise that won't exacerbate my extreme tardiness.
I'm starting to notice a trend, though: I'm not getting any exercise in my arms. Pretty much all my incidental exercise is walking - I don't have to do any heavy lifting as part of my daily routine. The heaviest thing I carry is my laptop bag and that goes over my shoulder, where, in all reality, gravity does most of the work. I need to start... carrying things, I guess.
I went for a 3km run around the lake tonight, where I realised the value of warming up by not doing it.
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