{"id":39701,"date":"2015-02-23T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39701"},"modified":"2016-02-27T06:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T11:02:05","slug":"time-to-get-back-in-daily-workout-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/time-to-get-back-in-daily-workout-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get back in daily workout mode!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"no<\/a>Slacking time is over! I let myself get so caught up in computer work that I forget to get aerobic on a daily basis. I spent time last night viewing workout videos to psych myself up after a few months of ever-decreasing workouts. I’ve decided I either need a workout partner to do early mornings at the gym with me, or I need to change my perception that I need anything outside myself to motivate me. I hurt my foot, hurt my knee, caught a giant cold<\/em>, I’ve been using every excuse to keep myself from taking the 6 minute drive to Planet Fitness to walk the treadmill each morning. Walking the treadmill inspires me to get on the machines. The more I go, the more excited I get about going. I need the balance. I just need to make myself show up and do it.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It’s too easy to get out of a regular routine. The past year and a half I’ve spent mornings goofing off rather than buckling right down to work. It all started when I began taking a break from work to visit with the man as he’s on his morning walk. My standard routine is my day begins about 4:00am with meditation. By 6:00am I’m ready for an hour at the gym, and then in the office to work until 2:00-3:00pm. His routine has him walking by my house about 8:30 each morning. So I began postponing work until after he left. Except by the time he left I was in a goof off mood which lasted much of each day. I learned how little discipline I really have, and it took me a year to figure out it wasn’t going to change unless I changed it.<\/p>\n

\"workout\"<\/a>It’s too easy to tell myself yard work or housework equals a day’s workout. It doesn’t. It was time to get back to my routine. So this morning I was back in the gym for my first full, proper workout in a month. I followed that by walking the causeway. Oh, my freaken golly! My legs are barking, my knee hurts, my back is achey — but I feel great.<\/p>\n

Sure, I feel exhausted but that will pass. I feel accomplished. I feel back on track. I feel I had a several month break from daily working out and strict eating. My body has softened and my muscles have weakened, but that will pass with a little daily effort.<\/p>\n

And I’ve learned that’s all it takes — a little effort each day. I’ve learned when I slack off for 30-60-90 days, I feel it. I’m still healthy altho I’ve been eating bread and pasta since June. I’m just a little slower, have a little more sinus action, I’m a few pounds heavier. I like what the extra 15 pounds does to my face, but not to my waist.\u00a0\u00a0 But I’m ready to go back to the strong and fit me.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to overdo it and wear myself out like I did today. I’ll just get back into a routine of making a little daily effort.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0 It feels good to be back in the gym<\/a>
\nI score a HealthRider Cardio Rider from a pal<\/a><\/p>\n

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