SweetNightshade’s BodyBlog

During my depression I took a good long look at why I was depressed. Truth is, I wasn’t happy with my life. All my focus was going towards school and work and I simply wasn’t feeling fulfilled. So, I had to acknowledge that I have responsibility for my life and change everything that is in my power to control. It only makes sense that the way I approach exercise changes along with my new methods.

When I was little, I would come home from school and explore the military base on my bike for three hours straight, every day. I was a stick. I just took my first bike ride in years, and it lasted 15 minutes. At first, it was a bit of a shock to me. I wondered if the bike chains were sticky. I was checking gauges and tires. Then I slowly started to become aware of everything that is involved in a true bike ride. I can last for an hour, more if I push it, on a stationary bike. But a stationary bike doesn’t require balance. It doesn’t give you wind or hills to work against. It doesn’t need much momentum to get started either. The stationary might make me sweat buckets, but it doesn’t make my lungs whistle.

This put everything into a very real focus for me. I feel that using my exercise time to count calories burned is, right now, a misuse of my energies. I am instead choosing to focus on the big picture - my overall health. If I ride my bike every day, the toned body will come along as a natural side-effect. So, with that said, I am officially changing my end-of-March goal from an inches goal to an endurance goal.

By the end of March, I want to be capable of riding my bike for a full 45 minutes without getting winded.

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