An all year long committment

Anyone that works out and actually expects results knows that it isn't something you take lightly and do sporadically.   It's an all year long commitment.  Something I learn quite frequently because I find I usually need to have a goal to keep me going, and usually that goal is some kind of hunting season, and when the hunting season starts I usually stop working out.  The perfect setup for a fail.  Since Taylor's deer hunt ended I've only been hunting pheasants, on fairly flat ground, no chukars, no high country big game hunting.  I've also been getting out of good eating habits since it's the holidays, and have noticed the pounds packing on.....the same pounds that I have worked so hard to get off.  As you may remember from a previous post called Exercising and eating well I've been trying extremely hard to get these excess pounds off that I have managed to put on the past 10 years.

Everyone needs their own wake up call, one that gets them going and motivates them to make some life changes.  I had mine this past Monday when I realized how crappy I felt from not eating right and exercising, and the scale showing it.  So now it's back to it again, and even in a short week of being on track I feel a hell of a lot better, and have dropped a few pounds.  It's even harder now then ever with the holidays.  So many treats and cookies around the house, even me baking some of them.  It takes some extreme discipline to have some boundaries.

One piece of exercise equipment I use is the Weider Total Body Works 5000.  The first thing I like is it's inexpensive, the second best thing I like is it stores very good under the bed.  You can read to your heart's delight about all the things you can do with it, but in a nutshell it uses your own body weight for resistance.

From spring to fall I usually do quite a bit of walking, but in the winter I don't get real excited about walking in the cold so I hit the exercise bike instead.  I currently have a Schwinn® Airdyne® Exercise Bike that I use.  It uses air resistance which eliminates a lot of electronic nonsense, gadgets, and gears that could break down.  So like the Weider, there is less of a chance it will malfunction and break down.

So these are just a few pieces of equipment that I use to keep up my fitness during the year when I'm not outside getting exercise.  Compliment these with actually getting into the outdoors and I think they lay a good foundation for keeping yourself in somewhat decent shape, more so then laying around watching TV and eating fast food as much of America does these days.