The natural trend of everything in life is a decline. Health, relationships, skills, happiness – it all needs effort. You’re either working to improve it or it goes sideways, south, or just vanishes.
I’ve been trying to improve my health by walking 10K steps daily. Last week I achieved 13K, using the colder weather and the willingness of my wife and the little kid to participate. At the end of Sunday, after meeting the goal of 13K for the week, I just tossed the Apple Watch and turned off my brain. Didn’t even read a book. Felt overwhelming and unpleasant.
Why does it feel like it is too much? An average of 13K means about 2h 10 min/day. The day is 24h. This leaves 21h 50min of inactivity. The human body was not made to be physically inactive for 22 hours per day. I have no answer yet. I’ll keep walking meanwhile.
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Just as I finished reading this post Fremont sighed. He probably doesn’t know it, but I sigh a lot during the day.
Silently. Sometimes here.
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Sigh 🙂 Say hi to Fremont.
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I took a deep breath. He sighed again. I scritched (is that a word) his neck and he fell back asleep. It’s time for me to do the same. 4:15 AM here. The sun also shines but not this time of day.
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Good job, nonetheless! I wish I could walk 10k steps each day, but it’s hard to get those steps in since I depend way too much on the weather. I try to keep active in other ways instead when I’m mostly indoors.
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What’s wrong with the weather in Sweden?
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It’s either too hot, too cold or it rains too much. And I refuse to walk outside when it’s pouring to take a long walk.
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This makes sense. I can’t do steps when it’s too hot or rains too much. When it’s hot, the trick is to wake up early and finish the steps in the early morning. With the rain – not sure. Wait I guess.
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Yeah, usually this summer when it’s either been raining or being 25+ degrees celsius outside, morning or late walks have been the thing. Still, this is the first summer in many years when I’ve been mostly in doors.
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Oh, too hot here would be 30+ or even 35+.
The issue with staying indoors is that the physical shape declines and you no longer want to go outside. Took me a decade to realize that.
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Yeah, I know. I’ve seen the results as well. It’s no fun. I try to stand more indoors, but it only works some of the times, and not something sustainable yet.
When I used my standing desk for 2 hours per day I noticed a huge difference in energy when taking walks, but I have never been able to do it consistently.
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