As it stands…right now…I haven’t worked out in over a
month. A whole month. That’s a month’s worth of gym membership dues
wasted and down the drain. I’ve made
excuses about why I couldn’t make the drive to the gym every day. I needed to save money on the gas was one
excuse. But that’s not a good reason to
not work out. I have plenty of workout
DVD’s in my apartment, including P90X, that I can take advantage of. Yet, I chose not to.
Well, I’m going to stop with the excuses and the waffling. Today.
Today is the last day of that. Tomorrow,
I start 16 days of vacation from work. My
only plans are to get back in the gym and into the habit of working out again,
go to the beach with a friend, meet another friend for lunch and then who knows
what else will come up. But the focus
will be me getting back in the habit of working out. I’m going to put together a workout plan of strength
training 3 days a week, circuit training 3 days a week and then a workout DVD or
bicycling every day.
I just got done reading a book by Bob Harper titled Are You Ready! Sure, the title isn’t exactly correct in that
it should have a question mark, but I suppose it makes sense that way too. Toward the end of the book, he makes this
statement: “When you reconnect with your body and make this commitment to take
care of yourself, you literally transform who you are in the world.” I’m basing my recommitment to fitness on this
statement.
Yes, it’s a Recommitment…my second commitment to it this
year. I hope I can stick with it this
time. I let a visiting friend steer me
away from my daily workouts. I should
have known better. In fact, I did know
better. I knew that if I didn’t work out
for a few days in a row that it would be so very difficult to get back into the
habit. But maybe it was better this
way. Why do I say that? Well, for one simple reason: I had gotten
stagnant. I was no longer losing any
weight because I had fallen off the wagon with my healthy eating and was
basically just breaking even and was maintaining the weight that I had
lost. So maybe this will be like hitting
the reset button. Maybe I can start
showing some weight loss again and actually make it to my goal weight by my
birthday in December.
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