[gcanyon]

> The hard part is finding time and having the motivation.

As I've said here several times: the best exercise is the one you'll stick with over the long haul.

Put another way: anything you'll still be doing in 2026 is better than anything else you'll quit before next Memorial Day.

[seadan83]

Agree. Anything that is done over the course of one week or one month is pretty meaningless. When starting training, the only thing a person needs to do is to do anything. Just get out there, build consistency. That is the very first goal. Timings, intervals, HR monitor, those are all well past the point of consistency. The other side of the coin, the accumulation of training/activity over long time is what matters. Those that work on larger projects learn this, some things you can't just cram the night before. It requires hundreds of hours of sedentary or active living, hundreds of meals, for effects of a good or a bad diet (or active/sedentary lifestyle) to be realized.