The “Watch Anime” exercise plan

Amy and I bought a treadmill a few months ago. It’s our second one - the first one had some major problems and had to be returned to Costco after it kept blowing our circuit breakers and would squeak like crazy when we ran on it. the new treadmill doesn’t have that problem. It’s built much better, and has a much more rigid base.

What I’ve been doing every other morning is loading up an episode on the TV and watching it while running on the treadmill. Each show is about 24 minutes, which is enough time to get up to quite a sweat. This morning I did a mile and a quarter at five miles an hour then slowed down to three miles hour, then did another quarter mile at six. My biggest problem previously when running was that I focused too much on my physical condition and would wimp out after 15-16 minutes.

The best thing about anime is that it is subtitled. When I watch it I don’t necessarily have to listened to the audio, which is very important when you’re pounding away on a noisy treadmill. I would assume you to do the same thing with other subtitled video.

I’m going to see how well this works - so far I’ve been very happy with my progress.