let's make habits: week 1

Thank you all so much for joining in with me on this 2 month journey! I was so excited last week to see each of your goals and motivations. It was so encouraging and inspiring to me! And it made me even more excited about completing my personal goal.

Okay. So it's time to talk about a schedule and plan of action for the next 2 months. First, let me just say why I think this is so important and why we aren't just diving in immediately. From my personal experience, I have realized that each time I want to accomplish something, if I don't take the time to really think about 1) why I want to accomplish it and 2) actually make a plan of action for myself to complete it then I typically won't get very far into my goal before quitting. This is because planning out what I'm going to do on a day-by-day or week-by-week basis helps to prevent me from being either too ambitious or too lazy. 

SCHEDULE 

So. Here we go. My goal is to workout consistently and in general work on my health. So what does this look like for me? Well, based on what I know about myself, I'm going to plan on working out on the following schedule:

Week 1 (August 18 - 24): 

* 20-30 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

Week 2 (August 25 - 31): 

* 20-30 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

Week 3 (September 1 - 7): 

* 30-35 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

Week 4 (September 8 - 14): 

* 35-40 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

Week 5 (September 15 - 21): 

* 40-45 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

Week 6 (September 22 - 28): 

* 45-50 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

Week 7 (September 29 - October 5): 

* 50-55 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

Week 8 (October 6 - 12): 

* 55-60 minutes of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)

* Weights (Monday, Friday)

* Ab Ripper (Wednesday, Saturday)

PLAN OF ACTION

My goal is not to reach a certain weight, but to complete over 95% of all my workouts each week, which equals out to completing 61 out of the 64 workouts. Now this is going to be INTENSE. It's definitely going to challenge me a lot. But that's good. I've also decided as part of my plan of action to set a reward for myself if I complete my 95% goal. The reward will be not only the satisfaction of completing my goal, but I'm also going to give myself a treat. There are some beautiful things I've been eyeing lately that I really want. Also, I think a massage would be absolutely wonderful. We will see... :)

Want to join in? Go ahead and pick a goal and link up to last week's post!

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So what's your schedule and plan of action?