The Idea

I have been sitting here for months trying to figure out just how to motivate my lazy butt into getting up off of the couch and work out. One day I noticed a friend from high school (Heather Burnett) had posted a blog for a workout she came up with in order to stay in shape and help train for a marathon. You can view Heather's blog here: http://90days90workouts.blogspot.com/ . In her blog she does one workout every day for 90 days and discusses the day in general and the ideas behind each workout.

This got my mind wondering what kind of things could I do to motivate myself into working out and not really feel as if I am working out all the time. I started having these ideas of things I could do, but most of them ended in a reward for the workout that either cost money, extra calories, or both. Then I thought about what I enjoyed doing with my free time. My wife and I enjoy watching movies more than your average person. Plus, no matter how much I have to work, I always find time to either watch tv or watch a movie on DVD. So I decided to take a similar approach to what Heather was doing and use my love for movies to motivate me to workout in some way - no matter how small or big, over the next 90 days.

The goal is to plan and accomplish a workout of some kind based on a movie that I choose to watch that day. I have to complete the workout before being able to watch the movie. It could be a movie I have never seen before or a movie I have seen a hundred times. Then I will report on the workout and the movie in my blog. Hopefully my love for movies will be the motivation I need to get up off the couch in order to workout, in order to get back on the couch to enjoy the show.