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An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
~Newton’s First Law~
One of the biggest challenges of any workout is getting started. And I don’t mean starting a workout program after a prolonged period of no exercise. I mean getting started every day, for every workout.
When my kids were babies, I got up at 5 am so I could drive to the gym and back before my husband had to leave for work at 7:30. I would drive there in the dark. have the entire gym to myself, and drive home while the sun was rising. It was nutty, but it worked well for me at the time. I remember a good friend asking me, “Is it ever hard for you to get out of bed and drive to the gym in the dark?” I think she was expecting to hear that it was easy for me most days and only hard some days. But this is what I responded.
“It’s ALWAYS hard. Every single day, it’s hard. When the alarm goes off, I ALWAYS want to choose sleep over getting up. But I force myself to just get out of bed and into my workout clothes (which I laid out the night before). Then I force myself to brush my teeth and make a pot of coffee. It isn’t until I’m in my car with coffee in hand that I’m ever okay with getting up so early, just to sweat.”
Just keep showing up.
Just keep pushing "play."
~Tony Horton, Creator of P90X~
You’d think after 25 years of regular exercise, I would have moved past that. That I’d be all “this is easy for me.” But I’ll be honest…most days I still have to force myself to start. On really hard days, I will often tell myself, “Just do 10 minutes (or 20 minutes or 30 minutes).” I know if I can just get moving, I find that my body will respond quickly to the motion and I’ll want to finish my workout.
So, my little tip for you today is to simply show up. Put on your workout clothes, grab your bottle of water and start. Every day, just make it your goal to be present and accounted for at your workout. By simply showing up, you’ve already won half the battle.
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Yep! I agree.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I really thought that maybe this feeling was just because I was so out of shape and lazy. I though have been lazy and haven't been fighting this feeling. I tell myself all kinds of excuses of why I can wait till later in the morning. I am just now starting to get back on the working out. I lost weight before and then gained it all back. Ugh. This has helped me though to know there are others out there fighting and succeeding the horrible feeling.
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