I’ve been asked this question a lot lately: “How goes the exercise?” I’ve thought about it, and here’s my answer.

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Yesterday, I posted about not needing exercise to lose weight. That is true. Exercise IS good for you, and I have never, nor will I ever dispute that fact. However, it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of it, and I don’t like doing it. With that said, I’ve accepted the fact that for me to continue losing weight and getting the body shape that I want, I have to do something more than what I’ve been doing. Therefore, I’ve begun with push ups.

Why push ups? It’s one of the exercises that can be done to strengthen your core, arms, and back. Also, I have a pulled muscle on the right side of my back that hurts terribly when I do kettle bells but doesn’t hurt when I do push ups. So, for now, I’m stuck with push ups and planks.

I will be adding some other exercises like crunches and what we in the Marines called Mountain Climbers, but that’s about it for now. I have said before that I’m easing gently into this exercise thing because 100% of the times I’ve tried in the past to get back into it, I’ve injured myself. I’m not allowing that to happen again. Also, have you heard I don’t like exercise?

I have been able to increase my number of push ups, and on some days, I even do them twice. I’m not doing push ups to failure. I’m not interested in strength or bulking. I just want flexibility and fitness. So far, I’m pretty pleased with the changes I’ve noticed in the past few weeks, and I’m looking forward to continuing the trends I’m seeing.

So, short answer is: it’s going well enough. It hasn’t killed me yet, so it must be making me stronger.