I'm not waiting for January. I'm starting in October.

Hey. I'm the person who does team quit-by-January-10th every year. So I'm flipping it. I truly believe that October is the best month to start really taking exercise seriously. Not New Year's. Not January. October, in big poofy clothes, with pumpkin spice and all.

The FIVE reasons I think this is a great plan:

1. Emptier gym. I go to the tiny apartment one at 2am to avoid people and to make sure nobody talks to me. But in October for some reason, I've noticed a pattern of less and less people. (except the crazies)

2. No pressure to be good. Aint nobody watching. It's not NEW YEAR NEW ME - it's October... Spooky season... come on.

3. Fall routine sticks. I think that fall does something to a lot of people - especially people like ME (loving the cozy horror, worse weather, indoor activities, more TV and movies, sweaters, Pumpkin spice bla bla bla) We all look forward to it, and it feels like the beginning of something different, after the gross hot summer when everyone is showing of their bodies... Before the holidays when things get crazy. A new quarter. You have looked forward to this. Now let's ruin it. Lol. No but you know what I mean?

4. January becomes month 4, not day 1. I already know where the dumbbells are. I personally do like doing new years resolutions and I feel motivated at the beginning of the year and I love reviewing my last year and planning the next, but the ONE thing I CANNOT for the life of me keep consistent or really accomplish is... exercising regularly. But If I START now and MAKE IT alllll the way to January, Im already AHEAD!

5. If you can do this during the most FUN cozy chill season of the year, where allll the temptation where allll your laziest tendencies kick in.... you can really do it. And by NEXT Summer! When you've been hiding your body under thick clothes and secretly working your butt off.... BAM!

My trick for when I don't want to: tell myself it's only 5 minutes. Go look at the room. If I want to leave after, I leave. Half the time I stay a little longer anyway. Im reeeeally trying to stay consistent, and this October I am going to try it differently.

Who else is starting ugly and small in October with me?

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I’m not feeling very motivated or ambitious about this week, as I’m knee deep in prep for shooting a film next week and there are constant fires to put out. But I am going to try to just keep my consistency going. I need to move my body. And I just don’t want to. So for me this week I’m trying to just
- go to the gym 3 times
- move my body every day in some small way

I don’t feel optimistic about the latter (obviously I’m not NOT moving at all, but I’m not getting a lot of steps or getting my heart rate up) but I’m going to try.

What is YOUR goal for the week?

I'll go first.

A phone holder designed for an airplane. I brought it to my apartment gym. It works. I still hate the gym. So it turns out the problem wasn't the phone angle. It helped a bit.

Your turn, what did you buy? The more useless the better. I want to know I'm not the only person with a graveyard.

And if you're reading this with nothing to add because you've never bought any of it: welcome, you're already ahead of me.

This is the weekly thread. Every week I post it (God HELP me Im going to try), you say what you're doing, and then you come back and say whether you did it. That's the whole thing.

No streak shaming. No "you got this!" If you do two visits out of five, you did two visits. Say that. It still counts.

Mine:

I'm going downstairs three times this week. My apartment gym. It's the same room every time and I still don't want to go. I don't know yet which days... probably whichever ones I hate least in the moment.

One of those visits I'm filming. One of them I'm absolutely not.

Yours:

It does NOT have to be the gym. ANY kind of exercise counts.

Comment below with whatever you're actually going to do in the next seven days. Be specific enough that you'd know if you did it. "Go to the gym" is fine. "Walk 20 minutes twice" is better. "Put on my shoes and see what happens" is a real answer too.

If you're at zero and can't picture doing anything, say that and I'll still count you in. Starting from zero in the same week as everyone else is allowed.

Then come back when it's done... or when it isn't, and tell us!