Exercise & excuses

I am the queen of excuses when it comes to avoiding exercise...I don't have time, I'm not feeling well, my knee hurts, etc.  This is one of the areas where I wanted to make the biggest change.  Not only did I want to exercise, I wanted to do it no matter what. 

I hit my first challenge this week.  Yesterday I did something to my back, I'm not sure exactly what happened but all of a sudden I was in excrutiating pain in my lower back.  I could hardly move, bending down and sitting were so painful I stood for 2 hours during Leah's gymnastics.  I took some advil, iced my back last night, and I managed to get some sleep.  This morning it's definitely better than yesterday but still not pleasant to move around.  Today is Wednesday, one of my kid-free days and I had planned on swimming at the rec centre.  I'm sure the actual swimming would have been fine but getting there, changing in the changeroom, it didn't appeal to me right now.  I was thisclose to doing what I always do, make an excuse.  I can't exercise today, my back hurts. 

But I didn't.  Walking is the one thing that doesn't make my back hurt so I went down to the treadmill and walked uphill at a decent pace (3.5 mph) for 60 minutes.  My confession is I did it while watching The Hunger Games.  I read the book along with Kyle and was curious to see the movie.  Since Kyle's dvd has the digital copy included I put it on my ipad.  Now I know I'll go on the treadmill tomorrow because I need to see the rest of the movie!

First time challenging my usual routine of making excuses instead of exercising went well.  I feel really good knowing I did my workout instead of sitting on the couch for an hour.  Plus now I have more energy and plan to tackle the mountain of laundry in my house and run a few errands before picking Leah up at school in a few hours.