Healthy Writers Club: Exercising During the Holidays

Log for the Healthy Writers Club:

Saturday, Dec. 8th: Walked in my neighborhood, using Week #4 on the Couch-to-5K training. In the hills; hard on my heel.

Wednesday, Dec.19th: Capoiera: Even though I didn’t feel like going, I psyched myself up to go by reminding myself that I could go at my own pace.

I get upset when I can’t keep up usually  But I realized that I needed to get myself in the room to just go for it. Because the downsides of not exercising for me is a odd restlessness when I try to sleep at night, and a vague sense of dissatisfaction with my life, that not even writing fiction can squelch.

Monday, Dec. 24th: Walking on the Ave. with my Seconds Pro app keeping me on task with my Couch-to-5K training, at Week #4. What got me out the door? Remembering my vague sense of general dissatisfaction with my life, and knowing that I’ll be nicer to my husband, too.

Also did a set a push ups against the wall — 10. And 30 seconds of the plank. I plan to increase these but I’m starting small, yep, very small.

Wednesday, Dec. 26th: Walking on the Ave. for Couch-to-5k training, Week#4 still. (I’m not ready to bump up the intensity to Week#5 yet.) I saw the full moon rising. No wonder I’ve been having trouble sleeping. Every full moon I notice that it’s hard to settle my mind. It was easy to get out the door. 🙂

Push ups against the wall: 12.

Plank: 33 seconds.

Just a comment on how my exercising affects my writing. I notice that I can write without exercising, but there’s a tipping point at which the writing doesn’t satisfy me enough, and I need to get moving. That’s partly why I often walk down to the cafe to write — a 9-minute walk in each direction.

If I exercise but don’t write I often feel dissatisfied  But that rarely happens. I mean I rarely don’t exercise without also doing some writing. From this I can see that exercising leads to more creativity. When I fulfill my most basic need for movement, the rest seems to flow naturally.

One of my business coaching colleagues I deeply respect calls this Nurture–Flow–Grow. Nurturing myself is good food, good sleep, and good movement. Then the flow is the creativity. Then the grow is the steps I take to grow my business.

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More info on the Healthy Writers Club and
my fellow writers participating here:
http://www.shalleemcarthur.com/p/the-healthy-writers-club.html.

At last count we are up to 30 writers! Woot! Together we are strong! Shallee, Thanks for creating this movement!

Welcome to one of our latest members: Imagine, Create, Write: (http://imaginecreatewrite.blogspot.com/)

How about you? Share your exercise, both casual and otherwise, below, and let’s support each other!