Everyday "workouts"

avskk

Okay, I suck at organized exercise. I can manage a 1-3 mile walk at the track (and I do a couple sets of stairs on the overpass -- probably ~40 feet at a steep angle, up across, down, and back once or twice), but everything else I've tried just sucks. As a result, I'm trying to become more active/vigorous as a consequence of daily life -- getting up and tending chores instead of sitting and reading, spending more time on my feet instead of on my butt, doing more of the heavy lifting & motion-intense stuff at work instead of delegating. Is this likely to be... at all effective? Tonight I did some extremely vigorous weeding (my yard was pretty much side-to-side two-foot weeds, densely packed) and ended up working up a hellacious sweat; my calves and thighs are burning; my delts, triceps, and biceps feel kind of pumped, and my heartrate was well up... but I only did it for ~30 minutes, and I sort of feel like I'm overestimating how good-for-me it was based on being tired.

I'm really, really out of shape, so even a little bit of exercise feels like a lot to me. Is this daily stuff worth much, given that I really throw myself into it and try to be honest with myself about what I'm actually doing?

melindasuefritz

yes its worth much all of it sounds pretty good