If you need help getting out the door today, try one of these tricks. |
Make it a game. Walk as long as it takes to spot three silver cars. Then set a new game objective, and keep on walking. |
WHAT DO I DO NOW? | Put on your WALKING SHOES and comfy clothes. Open the front door, walk out the door and don’t come back for 20 minutes. Once you’ve done this every day for a week, add 5 minutes to your walk. Then do that for a week and add 5 or even 10 more minutes. |
| How Embarrassment! Take a photo of yourself before you start your exercise programme - and make sure it shows all those bits you dislike. Keep it somewhere handy, or store it safely on your computer. After a month, take another photo and check the difference. It's probably time to reward yourself with a new T shirt! |
Cape Bailey walk NSW Explore. Don't plan your route. Instead, make decisions at every turn based on what looks interesting. Follow an interesting looking winding street to its end, or a hill to its top view. Make sure you remember how to get back home though. |
| Enjoy a treat. Plan a walk that takes you and a friend on a brisk, hour-long walk ending at a cafe. Or have breakfast before heading off to your favorite shop, then browse before starting for home. At least you probably won't buy too much since you have to carry it yourself! |
Now hear this. For an interval workout, bring your personal stereo. Speed up whenever you hear a fast song. Just make sure it's not turned up so loud that you can't hear what's going on around you. |
Even if you don't own one, there are ways to borrow a dog and help someone out. |
| Overtake. Pick a walker on your path who seems a bit more fit and faster than you. Then try to get past them. No tripping! |
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha |
Save it! Every time you walk a kilometre, put a dollar in a jar. You'll be surprised at how quickly you can save money for your rewards. |
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