Unless you count the daily 200 metre walk to the shop and back to buy cigarettes, the sum total of my exercise is zero.  Actually, that’s not quite true, I do a 10 mile walk with a friend every 6 weeks or so but, while it’s enjoyable and I feel good after it (albeit knackered), it isn’t enough to have a significant impact on my health.

The Hacker’s Diet outlines an exercise plan in the form of a 48 rung ladder, with each step getting increasingly harder.  The idea is that you spend a minimum of 5 days on each rung before moving up, or as long as it takes until you feel it becoming ‘easy’. I plan to start on rung 1 this evening, and have the defibrillator and oxygen masks at the ready.