Do I really have to workout today?
Do I really have to workout today??
I write this blog every day and every day I try to keep it real. I tell it like it is, the good the bad and even the ugly.
I never sugar coat shit as I want you to know that sometimes the road gets tough but you can make it and I can't do that if I am not totally transparent.
So when I talk about working out and being a gym rat for most of my life, you might think, well that's not me. I don't have time or I don't like the gym or she's lucky she feels that way.
Like so many of you, there are so many mornings when the alarm rings, that I don't want to be working out, like this morning!
Yes, I could have slept an extra hour, I would have loved to throw the alarm across the room except nowadays it's not an alarm clock but your phone which lately costs as much as a used car. I wanted to roll over into my next dream of lasagna.
(Yes, I am on a break from men, so I'm not even dreaming about them!)
But no, I dragged my ass up and got on this treadmill. Feeling it or not, it's what I have to do.
Seeing any kind of change is hard. I remembered when I started to train for a triathlon I ran to the end of my block and thought I was going to die. I remember saying to myself "Are they kidding? I'm never going to make a triathlon, I can't even make it to the end of the street!"
This is definitely going to suck! Yes, I am human and don't always shoot sunshine out of my ass, sorry to disappoint you.
Then I thought now I will have to train for 3 different events, this is going to be a pain, and I mean literally.
I was thinking what the Hell did I get myself into now? I love to eat! I hate to run, I suck at swimming, the only thing is I like to bike ride but at a competition level? I doubt it but I had to make a choice, my love of eating, my fear or a setting and accomplishing a goal while my life was upside down and getting divorced. I wanted to challenge myself and my readers that you can do anything you set your mind to.
That and I love a challenge, asking myself, can I do it? How far can I go? How much past the pain can I go? And then there are the naysayers and haters that help too, telling me I was too old (49) or that I was crazy. Hello I was going through a horrible divorce that part was a given..
But all of that gets me saying,
"Oh yea... you don't think so, watch this!" I want to be able to say to them, never bet against me.
I trained for 8 months for that triathlon and I placed 3rd in my age group, first time out. How's that for you naysayers? Ha! If I can do this, you can do this.
You see we are all the same, I love good food, I had always eaten like a truck driver. I remember my mother would tell me to eat before a date because no guy would ever ask me out again after seeing me eat!
I get lazy and tired and don't feel like doing the right thing but these last 8 weeks with this surgery on my hand taught me that I can spiral into a depression and the only antidepressant for me is to exercise.
So yes, I am just like you, I love to eat, hate to get out of bed some days, I have a bad knee,my back hurts and I am tired, does that sound like you?
Yes, it's because we are all the same, we don't want change, we want the easy way out and we want it now!
Yes, if a genie from Aladdin came and said, you never have to exercise, you can eat anything you wish and you will stay healthy and have a hot body. Hell, ya that would be one of my three wishes, are you kidding?
But until that happens, I have to make a change, I have to put in hard work and do this all on my own.
So today my friends, I am telling you this so the next time you don't feel like going to the gym or working out, when change seems daunting remember you are not alone, we all feel like that even the gym rat!
So push yourself and you will be glad you did, life is too short to do things half way, be all in. And you will amaze yourself with what you can do!
Now get your ass up and workout!
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