Great idea, @shanaqui! Before I even saw this thread I had just created a new “work out 3x per week” goal which looks like a great candidate for this.
I need to do things like this to stay out of physical therapy–my back, if left unattended, will tend to spasm and put me out of commission for two weeks at a time, followed by months of physical therapy to get back to normal.
I have a small “core exercises” goal but that doesn’t seem to be working well enough. So I’m going back to beeminding a coarser metric (times per week breaking a sweat) instead of "number of sets of core exercises.
I’m also playing around with deadlines, setting the deadline to 4:30 pm so that it’s harder for me to leave it until the evening (after dinner, and possibly an alcoholic drink). I think this will force me to use my work’s gym facilities more, which is a boon, as I tend to work out in a more focused way in a gym with good equipment.
I am setting an auto-ratchet to 7 days maximum, which will allow me to build up buffer for a short vacation, but I won’t be able to take two weeks off like I recently have.
