Tag: exercise

• January 9, 2023

  2022 Workouts

  In 2022, I worked out 130 times using the same prin­ci­ple and tips I used in the pri­or years. I missed a lot of work­outs, but I nev­er cease to amaze by how small num­bers add up over the year. Month Num­ber of work­outs Excus­es for missed work­outs Notes Jan 9 Skipped first week for hol­i­days. Feb 13 Mar 11 Missed… Read more

• March 21, 2022

  Price of things

  

  Mon­ey is often a neg­a­tive art. What you don’t do can be more impor­tant than what you active­ly do. Every­thing has a price, and prices aren’t always clear. The price of exer­cise isn’t just the work­out; it’s avoid­ing the post-work­out urge to eat a ton of food. Same in finance. The price of build­ing wealth isn’t just the trou­ble of… Read more

• January 8, 2022

  2021 Workouts

  I exer­cised 142 times in 2021. When I took a count in July, I antic­i­pat­ed miss­ing about 10 work­outs through the remain­der of the year, but I actu­al­ly missed just one. At 3x per week, I was lucky enough to work out about 47 of 52 weeks. That makes 2021 yet anoth­er good year in terms of phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and… Read more

• July 11, 2021

  Mid-year update on my 2021 workouts

  I exer­cised 25 of the 28 weeks so far this year. Over­all, I skipped ten work­outs and exert­ed myself 70 times at three work­outs per week. I am hap­py with the vol­ume of my phys­i­cal effort so far. I am look­ing for­ward to keep­ing this pace through the rest of the year. I will like­ly miss anoth­er 10 – 12… Read more

• January 4, 2020

  2019 Workouts

  Exer­cis­ing is one of the foun­da­tion­al habits that I want­ed to incor­po­rate in my life. In 2014 I found a col­league who is pas­sion­ate about per­son­al train­ing. He used to run exer­cise class­es at my then work­place. He encour­aged me to work out three times a week, became my account­abil­i­ty part­ner and have been since. Three hours a week seems… Read more

• December 27, 2018

  Old habits. Not new resolutions.

  Just a thought that popped up while work­ing out the upper body in the last hour. But first some con­text. Last week and this week, I am find­ing it very hard to exer­cise. It is after all hol­i­day sea­son, and I have had excel­lent exer­cise com­pli­ance so far this year. So why not take a break for Christ­mas and… Read more

• May 24, 2017

  The important thing we forget in the rush to achieve

  I should remem­ber the fol­low­ing gems in the arti­cle I found in the fol­low­ing tweet. But if I could offer one piece of advice to incom­ing fresh­man, it would be to learn to take care of them­selves — because they are about to be sur­round­ed by peo­ple who often have the mis­con­cep­tion that rack­ing up achieve­ments and acco­lades is… Read more

• May 5, 2016

  First four months of 2016

  Since the start of this year, I exer­cised 50 hours and ran 15 5ks. Most impor­tant­ly, I achieved one of the two res­o­lu­tions for this year. I suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed Chai­tanya 3.0 project. More details lat­er. I am not doing very well on the sec­ond res­o­lu­tion: get­ting the per­fect abs. I am fail­ing to eat excep­tion­al­ly well. I ate more junk,… Read more

• January 31, 2016

  January workouts

  Here is the sum­ma­ry of my work­outs in Jan­u­ary 2016. 11 high inten­si­ty work­outs. 5 five kilo­me­ter plus runs, once every Sun­day. Read more

• January 7, 2016

  There are no finish lines

  I chanced upon a great quote today. There are no fin­ish lines. It made pre­fect sense. This is some­thing I keep in my mind with every­thing I do. My rela­tion­ships, friend­ships, habits, and prin­ci­ples are all for my life. There are no fin­ish lines. In the oth­er news, I tried to keep qui­et in Twit­ter and Face­book but I soon real­ized… Read more