Climbing the walls: It’s time for me to get serious about exercise

One week after losing a couple of pounds, I have managed to put on three – that is a net gain of one if anybody is keeping score.

And it’s about time to get serious or this just isn’t going to work.

Serious about working out.

Serious about eating.

Serious about enjoying it.

I need to remember that once all this over – and it will be one day soon – we are all going to want to go out to enjoy life more than ever before.

It will be like one long Christmas where we eat, drink and be merry for several months rather than several weeks.

Let’s deal with the working out first...

While the motivation to get up for PE with Joe Wicks has been quite easy, even my wife and kids could not wake me from a deep slumber on Monday morning as I counted the cost of a sluggish weekend.

It’s pretty tiring doing nothing isn’t it? And that caught up with me in a spectacular way. So while Mrs Bish and the little ones all racked up an 11th straight session, my run came to an end at 10.

I should have done the workout later in the day, but I couldn’t bring myself to.

There have been other great ideas I have thought about following as well, but I have barely dabbled in anything else other than morning PE, as well as not getting out for as many walks and runs as I should have.

Combine that with my continuing to eat like a teenager during the school holidays – biscuits, just biscuits, and maybe some crisps too – and it should not have come as a surprise when those scales tipped back over the 18 stone mark.

I need to enjoy exercising at home, I need to remember that dinners out and trips to the pub are going to feel like Christmas when this is all done – the motivation should be there.

It is just hard to overcome that short-term pang of the need of a sugar rush.

But the biscuits are banned and I am going to find a way to enjoy exercising as much as eating.

I’m not quite sure how, but answers on a postcard – or, you know, Twitter – to me please.

I want to hear and see what you are up to sporting-wise during lockdown – the good and the bad – so email your pictures and videos to derek.bish@expressandstar.co.uk or contact me on Twitter @DerekBish_Star. I will include the best ones in this column and retweet plenty of ideas that everyone can get involved with.