Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Twenty-four of 24

I've stopped tracking specific workouts, but from 11/2/08 through 2/5/09, have made 24 trips to the gym. Here are the numbers showing how good or bad Ainsley and I were each week:

# of Visits/Week
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Total
0

1
1

2 (14%)
1

2

1
3 (21.5%)
2
3
1
2

6 (43%)
3
1
1
1

3 (21.5%)
# of Weeks
4
5
4
1
100%
14 weeks

Over the last 14 weeks, the frequency of our visits to the gym have gone between no workouts to a max of 3. As the table shows, we usually manage to get in at at least 2 trips, which is just good enough. The first interruption to our routine was the holiday season. Among the other usual holiday distractions, we were away vacationing in south Florida for almost a week. We tallied up another week of zero when Ainsley started a new schedule of night classes, making it difficult for us to go to the gym together at our usual evening hour, which is after I get off work. The lessons learned here are that holiday interruptions are to be expected and we need to start working out separately, which I only did for the first time last night (not part of this count since the week isn't over yet).

Here's another aspect of our workout behavior. This shows which days of the week we are most likely to hit the gym:

Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
Total
4
2
5
3
3
6
1
24

The winners are Tuesdays and Fridays. We're apparently at our laziest on Mondays and Saturdays. How about you?