DrTri Weekly Health & Fitness HomeWork for 7/13/09

This week is the end of our 100 day challenge from April 5th, 2009 (July 15th, to be exact).
Have you been keeping up with your challenge to a healthy activity of your choice every day for 10-15 minutes?!?!?!?
For those of you who were not part of this Weekly Health and Fitness HomeWork, don’t worry about not knowing what I am talking about because I am giving you a chance to try it out.
For those of you who “fell off the wagon”, I am giving you another chance to go for 100 days...
And! For those of you who kept to it and did your 10-15 minutes of self-good for the entire 100 days..... CONGRATULATIONS!
Gold stars to every one of you. (I am on day 248 of my daily “activity” that is good for me.)

So, here is this week’s HomeWork:

For the newer folks and for those who “fell off the wagon” and need to ‘try it again’,
choose some “activity” that is good for you and you wish/know/feel that you should do more often. It has to only take about 10-15 minutes to complete.
For example your “activity” could be ONE of the following:
Walk
Run
Meditate
Eat greens
Floss
Sex
Push Ups
Sit Ups
Read
Write
Study a language
Talk to your kid(s), partner, parent(s), friend(s)
Paint
Nap!
Take a bath
Surf the web
DrTri Daily Double!?!?
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Again it has to be good for you and something that you have thought would be good if you did more often. Or, something that you wanted to see what would happen if you really did it more often as you perhaps have been advised by a friend, doctor, parent, partner, etc.
So, hear is the “actual” HomeWork.
You have to do this for 100 days. Starting any day this week that you want (I will be starting tomorrow morning) and then continue for 100 days... Should be a true test of our resolve and/or commitment and discipline to be healthier!!!
So for 10-15 minutes each day for the next 100 days, do this the particular “activity” that you want. It DOES NOT have to be from the above list. If you start tomorrow, then it will end on October 21st.

For those of you who did well and stuck to it for 100 days (or anyone else who wants a different twist to the 100 day challenge), this is the DrTri-Lent version.... Guess that makes it “Dent’....
For the next 100 days, eliminate something that you do that is not positive, forward moving, productive, healthy, and/or good for you. This can be anything physical, mental, gastrointestinal, etc. etc.

If you need assistance figuring out what to eliminate, drop your ego, and ask your closest friend what one thing you could eliminate that stands in your way of health, fitness, success, and/or happiness.
(you know what will happen.... After 100 days if you focus on eliminating this item, it will probably be likely to disappear altogether from you daily existence...?)
This does not necessarily have to be something that is “bad” for you. Just something that may “get in your way”.
For example:
Eliminate the word “ummm”.
Stop eating when you are not hungry or just because the bag or bowl of chips or candy is there.
Stop chewing with your mouth open.
Don’t say “yes” when you SHOULD say “no”.
Stop picking on your lieutenant (I mean boss...) -no personal reference intended...ha
Don’t automatically sit down in front of the TV when you eat.

Basically anything that is not in your best interest. We all have many little things that we do during our day that “get in our own way”. This is just an exercise in reducing the number of things! If you start tomorrow, then it will end on October 21st.

Have fun with this,
MRoss