I've been doing this wacky exercise program, where as long as I'm working out by 6am, it doesn't matter what I do; it can be as easy as sitting on my rowing machine and shuffling at a walking pace for a set distance. I've never been good at consistency, so that's the weak point I'm working on. And despite that, things are improving.

This makes me wonder whether the "no pain, no gain" maxim unnecessarily polarizes us into type-A crazed workout people and jobba-the-huts on wheels. Maybe what we need is more opportunities for very low-stress social exercise, like regular walks at lunchtime. Being mostly driven by other things, we need to form social habits. The Exerblog is my social habit for what it's worth. I just pretend people are reading it, and the imagined obligation to post keeps me going. We could do a lot better than that.