healthy heart – week 1

I’ve now completed Week 1 of the Healthy Heart Challenge.

At the start of the week, I set my goal for the week: to walk for 10 minutes each day. My aim was to start working out the best time or times of each day when it might be possible for me to incorporate exercise.

I was rather pleased with my efforts:

Monday: 2 x 15 minute walks
Tuesday: 2 x 10 minute walks
Wednesday: 1 x 15 minute walk and 1 x 25 minute walk
Thursday: 2 x 20 minute walks
Friday: 1 x 15 minute walk
Saturday: 1 x 25 minute walk and 1 x 20 minute walk
Sunday: 1 x 40 minute walk

That’s well above that I set out to do.

This week I’m on holidays, so the opportunities for exercise will be different than on my normal working weeks. With this in mind, my target for this week is to walk for 20 minutes each day, either in two 10 minute blocks or one 20 minute walk – depending on the day, where I am and what I’m doing.

I don’t think this will be a big stretch – I already achieved that almost every day this week – but as I explained, I’m trying to build the habit at this stage, not to rush into an exercise program that I can’t maintain over the long term.

So far, so good.