My 30-Day Exercise Plan

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
by George Appiah

I’ve gotten to a stage in life where I cannot afford but take care of my health and my life, and seriously at that. There’s so much to do, and there’s so much fun to be had — and I can’t afford to leave so soon.

Starting from today, 17th of January, and for the next 29 days, I am committing myself to 20-minutes of daily exercise. But this is not a test to find out if exercising is right for me or not. The benefits of regular exercise are well documented, and I personally start to experience some of these benefits after just 3 days of regular exercise.

So why not a life-time exercise plan? Why 30 days? I’ve been here before. So many times in the past I’ve set out with grand exercise plans — all of which, like New Year Resolutions, fall off after just a few days. That’s why this time round I’m setting for myself a very modest goal: 20 minutes daily exercise for just 30 days. And then wait and see what happens.

So what will be my regular exercise? Nothing fancy. There’s no gym nearby… so I’ll simply be doing 20 minutes of running every morning.

And throughout these 30 days I am going to share my progress here. So if you’ve not done so already, subscribe to my RSS feed, or follow me on Twitter to receive notification of all updates.