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04.02.2020
The mental discipline of daily exercise
To date, I have exercised 253 days and for the past 126 days I have complete 5 miles a day speed walking.
This process is more mental than it is physical. The track I exercise on is 1/2 mile per round. To complete 5 miles requires 10 times around the track.
Typically I start my exercise between 4:45 AM and 5:30 AM.
To complete 1 mile (2 circuits), takes between 13 and 17 minutes. Anyone can do that.
As I approach the end of the second lap, mentally I am realizing that as I start the third lap, I am approaching the beginning of the 4th lap which is close to beginning the 5th lap at the end of which, I am half way.
As I begin the 5th lap I am close to the beginning the 6th which completes mile 3. This is 3 times further than the one mile of the first two laps.
At the end of the sixth lap, I start lap 7 with only 3 laps to go. As I finish lap 7, I start lap 8. Mentally, that means I have two laps to go and we have already seen how easy two laps are.
Mentally the battle is over. Typically, I speed up for the last 3 or 4 laps which in our exercise plan are laps 7, 8, 9, and 10.
This may seem awkward to you. If it does, design a plan for yourself. This works for me. I cannot walk 10 laps every day, but I can walk 1 then 2, 3 and 5. At that point, I am half way there. Then I do 6-7 with only three laps to go.
See how easy it is.
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