Gym, Gym, Gym, Gym, Gym, Gym

[float_on_alright]

I made it to my workout session this morning. Knowing that there was someone waiting for me seemed to help. I get why people pay someone to torture them with workouts. I don’t know how long that would work for me if I decided to do it, but at least now I get why people make that choice. The accountability partner thing is real (as long as you’re not talking about an enabler who is gonna be like, “Yeah, of course you can skip today because you got home five minutes later than you were supposed to last night. I’m going to skip too because I had a nightmare last night.”).

 

I need to make myself a schedule where I make time for exercise and writing. I had a thing going with my scheduled time for writing and editing for a while and it worked okay but I think I honestly scheduled myself too long for writing. It was two hours, which doesn’t sound like a lot of time, but for me--often--thirty minutes of solid work is about where I stop. Now, I might do an hour or a bit more if I’m really into whatever it is, but a solid two? That was a little overwhelming and I tended to put off doing anything serious because there was so much time and/or I’d get burned out or distracted. On the other hand, I need to make more time for exercise than I have in the past. I tend to do cardio and decide that’s it, but I know that if I really want to lose a little weight that the best thing is going to be for me to build some musculature. Granted I will build some in my lower body just by doing the cardio and being on my feet more, but that isn’t going to give me any upper body strength and, for real, I could use some upper body strength.

 

Plus, building a little musculature in general will a) help me with the jogging and other cardio activities I want to try b) help me avoid injury in the long term, c) help vary things up so I don’t get bored, and d) increase my metabolism so that my body can better process the food (especially the sugar) I put into it.

 

I have this unicorn calendar--I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before--that has little motivational things on it. One of them says, “Decide to do it or quit.” Well, something like that. I think I mentioned that exact thing in the past, but I just saw it again today and was just re-reminded that I need to decide what I’m doing and then do it. There’s no sense in setting an alarm for 6 am (or whatever) and then just turning it off until 7 am. I either need to do 6 am or don’t. But it is really hard to make that choice. I'm still trying to figure out what my choice for tomorrow will be.