I've always been of the opinion that it's good to have choices when it comes to exercise. Relying on just one activity for my daily exercise needs is not a good idea. For instance, if I only swim, then what do I do on the days that the pool is closed? If I only run, what do I do when my knees hurt to bad to jog even five minutes? If I only do Wii Fit Plus, how will I get my upper body workout in (an area that Wii Fit Plus is still sadly lacking in)? No, it's best to have choices, that way when one kind of exercise won't work, I can simply turn around and do another. Good, yes? Except that lately it seems like I have too many choices, and I'm not getting much of any exercise done at all. My problem is that I want to exercise all my options, and I really only have time for one a day. I can't run and do Wii Fit and go swim at the Y all on the same day. Or rather, I could, but then I wouldn't have time to do anything else, like work or clean or even eat. I've put on a few pounds lately, so I'm chomping at the bit to go, go, go exercise, but I simply can't do it all. Add to all of this the fact that my schedule has been so erratic lately, I'm having a hard time figuring out what it is I should do when I finally do get time to exercise. In the face of all my choices, I sort of freeze up. I can't decide which form of exercise would be best to do right then, so I end up doing nothing at all. This all results in a very frustrated, unexercised me. So what to do? In my case, I'm assigning specific days and times for each activity. On Mondays and Fridays, I plan to go to the Y and swim. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'll take karate class. On Wednesdays and Sundays when I'm home, I'll hop on the Wii (and if Wii Fit Plus has a problem with me not training with it every day, then it can go soak its head in a bucket). That leaves one day, Saturday open. In theory, I could take black belt class at the dojo that day, and I will probably try to fit that in as often as I can, but if I only get to two karate classes a week instead of three, I'm not going to sweat it. Beyond that, I'm wondering if I should continue to do my mini-workouts. I've started running again lately, and I'm back to running the entire neighborhood in just 20 minutes. I'd like to keep doing this because it's the best exercise for me when I'm trying to lose weight, but I can't figure out yet when during the day I'd fit it in. It will take some thinking to work this out. Anyway, that's my dilemma for the week. If anybody has any thoughts or ideas on this, let me know!

Tags: Wii Fit Plus

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