So, now with all this time on my hands I've been trying to get into better eating (translation: not blowing money on fast-food) and exercising (omg! what? moi? exercise!? ... i know). Anyway, I have a subscription to fitness magazine (gift from a friend) and it has helped a lot with the motivation. My first free week I started the Couch to 5K regimine and while I was exhausted afterwards (yeah... I'm REALLY out of "cardio" shape, but quite strong) I felt good for doing it. I got side tracked quickly and then semi hurt my ankle in a freak bar slip (NOT a party foul! I literally slipped in someone else's spilled drink) and since my medical coverage is ending I wanted to stay off it since it felt a little sore. Anyway, now I'm back on it and will probably do more since as I said I have a lot of time on my hands (other than packing).
... wow... can you say side tracked??
I wanted to post this so I don't forget! In Fitness magazine I read a bit about a free website which posts work-out (more specifically: running/jogging) music. They're brand new and update every 2 weeks with a new track. They give you the BPM, beats per minute, of the music and tell you if you keep pace with the music the whole way through roughly how much you will have run and approximately how many calories you would have burned (they give a guideline too, like this is for a 140 pound person or 150 pound person or whatever) and the food equivalent of that. I think it's kind've interesting. The beats are all pretty easy to listen to and run with, so I enjoy that.
http://www.motiontraxx.com/
You can subscribe to it via podcast on iTunes and save to your iPod or you can download the songs to upload to another MP3 player. And again, it's FREE. :)
I got ready to go run the other day and was listening to one of the tracks. I enjoyed it, so I opened iTunes and subscirbed, downloaded the ones they have out right now and synced it to my iPod.... then I got sidetracked and realized I have a $15 iTunes gift card, so I redeemed that and downloaded some more music and synced my iPod ... next thing I know, I'm listening to music and got side-tracked online. Blah! Like I said... the exercise for me is a work in progress.
