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Let me tell you the greatest & simplest fitness plan without any delay:

1. Get your body moving on a regular basis; and
2. Eat a moderate amount of real, whole foods (with occasional indulgences). Eat healthy.

Leo Babauta from Zen Habits came up with it. I know it is so simple and probably a nightmare of all those fitness guru on late night commercials. #2 was slightly too long, I simplified it.

Rock Climbing near Austin TX

In past, I tried various fitness plans. You can go on web and find all kind of plans for getting in shape. Some complex plans require keeping detailed journal of exercises you did or real good memory. Other simpler plans are so simple that they are repetitive and get boring. I gave up on any structured plans long time ago.

Earlier this year when I started working out with Karl, I came up with a simpler plan. It was to imitate someone who looks like they know what they are doing. No need to keep journal or anything. It didn’t work out so well. In the morning when we went to gym, there were not many people. And with smaller crowd, it would be too obvious if I was copying someone.

One of the great workout advice, my friend, Brian gave, was to workout until you see stars. That’s how you know you have pushed your limits. Please remember when you are pushing yourself like that you really need to eat right and a lot. I remember when first I started intense working out, I would eat 2 meals at a time. Brian told me that I needed to take several supplements like several different types of protein, and vitamins. It was too complex.

Lately, I had become interested in running mostly, because it is so simple. But I love gadgets and simplicity is sometimes scary. I wanted to buy Garmin Forerunner 305 to keep track of my runs. But again I was making it too complex. I should instead get some nice running shoes and run as far as I can go. Above link is affiliate link, just in case, if you still decide to buy it. For me no gadgets, no journals, no strict routines. I do as I feel.

So I wrote such a long post for such a simple plan. Just wanted to say I have found the perfect fitness plan, thanks to Leo.

It’s that time of month again, when I evaluate my monthly goals. May goals were:

• Maintain running at 7mph for 15 minutes.

I have been slacking going to gym. But I was able to run once more at 7mph for 15 minute. Again I had to push myself a lot.

• 3 sets of 10 pull ups.

I completely failed here. I wish I could do pull ups at home. Due to work, I missed gym so many times & yesterday I could not even do as many pull up as last month.

• Finish iGree.nu for launch on June 1st.

Unlikely, this is going to happen. Still working on it but work is sucking all my free time. Also I am using a lot of free evenings to network.

• Convert my old sites to modern standards.

I did clean up & updated almost all of my old sites. Some need more work but I will do that later.

All in all, this month has been as productive as I hoped for. June is about to start. It is amazing to think that half of the year is already over, almost in a blink of an eye. My June goals are:

• Run/swim or bike 3 times a week. I don’t care but stats so much. The weather is getting nicer, I rather run or bike outside now. Also I love to run with Kazadi, Patrick, Anthony or cohabitat crew. So in June, I will just relax do these activities without worrying about how I am running or biking or swimming.
• Do random health/exercise challenges like, 100 pushups or 300 crunches.
• Spanish. It is easier to learn 2 languages at same time, or I guess I just get  bored with one language quickly. But this month, I will focus on Spanish. I will be happy if I finish Level 1 of Rosetta Stone.
• Continue working on iGree.nu. This is not the top priority project anymore.
• Patrick & mine secret project
  • Create corporation
  • Design a website
  • Write a business plan

That’s all!

Previous goals:

• Goals 2009.1
• Goals 2009.2
• Goals 2009.3
• Goals 2009.4
• Goals 2009.5

So since gym bored me extremely, I quit gym long time ago and started looking at other form of exercises.

I did rock climbing regularly for several months, it was exciting until I got semi good then it became just boring. Then i tried, swimming, running, working out with a video game, just push ups, steppers while playing video games, and hiking.  I got bored with all of these excersices.

I  see a pattern here. All these excerices are solo or semi-solo activities and non-competitive.

So I am thinking of picking up some sport for my new years resolution. My goal is to get regular cardiovascular exercise, at least one hour every week. I am reading about various sports  that are very cardio, like soccer, basketball, taek won do (and other martial arts), and tennis. Right now, I am leaning towards taek won do but its not really a team sport or competitive. However, it does seem like most active sport. Also since the instructor and other people will watching me, I will be motivated to finish the whole session.

So I was wondering if you have any suggestions or ideas. What do you think is the easiest sport to get started in? And which sport you think has most cardiovascular activity?
Please let me know what you think.

Everyone have a great holidays, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanuka!