My workout strategy was to have audio of Jillian Michaels yelling at me constantly. However, all I have been able to find on YouTube are videos of her making a ton of sense.

Video below.

In all seriousness, I am about as ADD as one can possibly be at 40. Well, almost 40. While it’s hard to get out of bed super early to do anything, it’s doubly tough when the workout routine is a bore.

That’s why I’m going in with my little cheat sheet of speeds and inclines and changing it up often. The trick long-term is being able to do this every day, and the key to that is variety in concert with striking while the weather is hot.

I despise winter. I don’t start projects during the winter, but I suspect I could carry on good habits as the weather cools. We’ll see.

Meanwhile, I’m still looking for good videos of Jillian yelling or kickin’ ass. This quick video of her talking about how to lose ab fat will have to do for now.

Found a cool spreadsheet somebody put together with interval and incline treadmill workouts. You can download the XLS file and take them to the gym.

That’s what I plan to do tomorrow. Thinking I’ll try one of the interval workouts.

For the spreadsheets, go here: http://bit.ly/dhCTOm

Trying something a bit different today.

Over the past several months, when I have been disciplined enough to work out, I have often not met the standard for consistent cardio. For example, I play basketball. That’s good, and it’s a lot of stop and start, which is again good — but I think I need a base of regular cardio.

I’m not sure that it has to be a lengthy daily routine. Just needs to be challenging.

So, I’m doing this 20-minute workout I found on the website for Fitness magazine. Lots of variation in speed and incline. Read about it here: http://bit.ly/7D8k

I’ll let you know how awesome or underwhelming the workout was after I’m done. Off to the gym.