A short one today so you won't have to spend as much time listening to me waffle.
This morning, like all mornings, I woke up at 5.30 and went down stairs to my living room, turned on the television and completed my workout. During the night I had been up and down constantly. I never had more than a few hours sleep at a time, so when I went downstairs in the morning, to say I wasn't feeling it would have been an understatement. I was so not feeling it that it was almost like I had no hands. Still, I got on with it and completed the workout - Turbo 20s.
By the end of it,I was feeling good again and a lot more 'with-it' than I was when I started. I must have done the video exercises in a trance because I actually, now, cannot physically remember doing it or how I felt. I was probably really doing it asleep. However, normally I need motivation to get up, normally I need motivation to keep going despite food cravings and feeling hungry; normally it takes motivation to get out the door and walk for a long time. Then I had a revelation.
The revelation was that I no longer needed the motivation to do any of these things, it has become ingrained into a habit, a daily routine. Looking back now, I got up this morning without even thinking about it and I haven't even thought about whether I am hungry or not because I am simply getting on with it. When I walk out the door for my walk I now look forward to doing it and the only thing I now worry about is not being able to do as much walking once things inevitably return to normal. What will I do then?
Whatever it is I do, nothing will change the fact that I have changed a lot in terms of exercise and eating. I now enjoy both and I can physically see the weight now beginning to shift, which is proving a problem for my trousers because a lot of them no longer fit me and no shops are open. Thank God for Monday eh?
So now I no longer need motivation to do what I am doing, it has become a habit and something that I actually enjoy. Even when I don't want to do the exercises, the feeling I get afterwards - just the memory of that - keeps me going and makes me do it. I know it. I've experienced it. I want more of it. Tomorrow I will, for the first time, attempt to do two workouts in one day and see how I feel. If I am fine by the end of the second one then I may try to include two workout days at least a couple of times a week and see if that helps me more. The problem now is that the more I do the more I want to do. My wife said to me today that I am now more addicted to exercise than I am to beer...and she is right. And I am extremely happy about this. I want endorphins, I need them and the best and healthiest way is to exercise.
I may post a before and after picture tomorrow to show you how far I have come to hopefully help other to the same place that I am. The hard part, as I said, is finding the time to continue to do this once I am back at work. But as I said in one of the lest few blogs, if you really want to do something, you will always find a way to do it. And that, for me, is the way to go.
Until tomorrow, stay strong and stay safe.
Thanks for reading.
Sean.
Comments