My day starts out when I lay in bed, awake in the pre dawn light. I will check my Apple Watch on my wrist, which thankfully has a night time display of large numbers. If the time is past 5:30am I will get out of bed. I will do this because experience has shown me that I won’t be able to fall asleep again. Usually though I get up around 6:30am. Before I get dressed for the day I will weigh myself and hope the scale cooperates in showing me my stats and not The Chefs. In the winter I do all this in the dark so I do not wake her.
I then go out into the great room mix up some Pre-Workout drink to sip while I first do a couple of word puzzles in the New York Times before I read my chapter or two in the scriptures. That completed I get in the car and go to the gym. My current splits consist of one muscle group per day. Today was back day. I am doing three exercises consisting of three sets of ten reps. I will probably add a fourth exercise into the mix in the next month or three. This done, when I get home I will have my protein shake and then go for a walk. I use my Apple Watch to time my 30 min walk. I would like to add to this and get my distance up but Parkinsons currently isn’t cooperating, so I’m perfectly happy to get what I do.
This is how I start every day. I do the above things in this order because it works for me. Starting the day with the word puzzles and reading helps to wake me up and eases my mind into the day. Going to the gym is on autopilot for me. I have done it for enough years that I no longer have to ponder all the, “Do I want to’s, do I really need to’s, and can I get away skipping a day’s.” I just go. Walking is a relatively new addition to the routine and it is fitting in well so far. I find too that motion creates emotion. My day always goes better if I start it with exercise.
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