Motivate Me Monday

It’s Motivate Me Monday and I have no clue how I am going to get any exercising in this week. Friday we are leaving for vacation and I have a million things I must do before we go. Hopefully I can ad a few work outs into my week but I am not going to hold my breath.

I would like to say I have been doing really well the past few weeks. I have been working out extra hard and I bought myself something new to work out with. I bought the EA Active Sports for the Wii. I really like this because it creates custom work outs (something new everyday) or you can go in and create your own workout. It counts the calories that you burn as you go and does a variety of different exercises from cardio, to sports, weight training. I like to put in a good hour work out each time so I do one of the work outs it creates and then I have put together a few of my own that are all cardio based. So I burn about 200 calories, work out for an hour and have a really nice sweat going before it is all said and done. Oh and I have lots of fun in the process.

The one thing I don’t like about it, it expects you to do certain weight training move exactly, with out moving or wiggling, etc. The trainer will stop, and make you repeat and sometimes I get mad because I repeat something over and over and it doesn’t recognize that I have done it again. I would like to say I am not wiggling because I don’t know how to do the exercises correctly or that I am not strong enough, I am wiggling because I have a toddler, going under my legs, tugging on my legs etc. It is impossible to hold still when he is working out with me.

So for the next two weeks I will drink lots of water. Work out a little this week, between packing, shopping and cleaning, next week I hope to get to go for a couple runs on the beach with my husband and enjoy our vacation.

So what motivates you this week? What are you doing for your health? Just remember support is everything and don’t ever give up. We are all stronger than we think.