My first act in this whole “gettin’ healthy” thing was to set a routine for exercise. I read somewhere that the way to get a routine cemented into your life is to start with setting a specific time, and doing something really easy.

So for the past six weeks I’ve dedicated myself to a modest morning workout. Nothing fancy or intense, just something simple that doesn’t cause dread and instead I’ve began to look forward to.

Here it is:

• wake, eat (yogurt, low sodium V8, fruit)
• put on some music
• a few mins of stretching
• a couple mins of jumping jacks
• an increasing amount of sit-ups (when I started this it was 10, now I’m up to 30)
• a couple more mins of jumping jacks
• push-ups, hopefully an increasing amount (I started with 10, I’m still doing 10)
• more stretching
• more jumping jacks
• black coffee, make myself pretty, read/share the news, off to work