I am about 7 months into an intensive attempt to rebuild my fitness in my 40s.  I set myself the goal of meeting my movement goal from my apple watch every day - 30 minutes of exercise plus a total activity goal that's right around 10k steps.  The watch was critical in giving myself a goal every day and sense of achievement every afternoon when it vibrates as I hit the target.June, July I made some quick initial progress.  August, September, October, November was mostly a period of stasis.  Then right around Christmas break, my fitness randomly took off like a shotgun.  Since then, it has been new personal records every week, in swimming, running, and spinning (I usually mix it up).  I've even lost a few pounds after plateauing with an initial 10 pound loss.I am no scientist but it seems like a confluence of factors came together in december.  In June it was just exhausting to convince myself to go every day, then there was a mental aspect to approaching it (I learned that I exercise best when completely zoned out - no watching sitcoms during biking for me), and that I feel best after swimming because it relieves the tension built up from long hours at work (not to mention lack of pounding).  Also it helped to have a week off in December, which is when I really started to improve.  And of course, I have the time to do it this year, which hasn't always been true.Hoping this becomes a life turning point.  We'll see.

I am about 7 months into an intensive attempt to rebuild my fitness in my 40s.  I set myself the goal of meeting my movement goal from my apple watch every day - 30 minutes of exercise plus a total activity goal that's right around 10k steps.  The watch was critical in giving myself a goal every day and sense of achievement every afternoon when it vibrates as I hit the target.June, July I made some quick initial progress.  August, September, October, November was mostly a period of stasis.  Then right around Christmas break, my fitness randomly took off like a shotgun.  Since then, it has been new personal records every week, in swimming, running, and spinning (I usually mix it up).  I've even lost a few pounds after plateauing with an initial 10 pound loss.I am no scientist but it seems like a confluence of factors came together in december.  In June it was just exhausting to convince myself to go every day, then there was a mental aspect to approaching it (I learned that I exercise best when completely zoned out - no watching sitcoms during biking for me), and that I feel best after swimming because it relieves the tension built up from long hours at work (not to mention lack of pounding).  Also it helped to have a week off in December, which is when I really started to improve.  And of course, I have the time to do it this year, which hasn't always been true.Hoping this becomes a life turning point.  We'll see.

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