I NEED TO GET MOVING!! Sorry wasn’t yelling at you, was to myself. I was sooooooooo good at getting up every day at 4:00 a.m. to get downstairs and working out. Then summer happened - Yup, haven’t gotten up that early since. I still get up at 5 to get ready for work but no working out. It sucks. It takes 21 days for something to become a habit and only 7 to break it J. I find I’m so tired by the end of the day that I don’t want to exercise, I just want to go to bed (and I’m sometimes in there as early as 8:30). I’m getting enough sleep now that I’m lights out at 9:30 and away by 5 (that is if I sleep all night - which I don’t). I’ve got that 4 hour deep sleep when I first close my eyes, but after that (around 1:00 a.m.), I wake up and then snooze between then and when the alarm goes off. If my hip hurts, then it isn’t so much of a snooze as much as it is trying to find a comfortable position…. Sucks…
Sandra
I’m getting in my walks and lots of stretching and some core work but I really need to kick my butt and get back to doing lots more, really break out in a sweat. I’ve been told to not strength train until I can get my tight-shorter-than-normal muscles to lengthen and stretch (this includes my upper back and shoulders as well as my hip area) so my brain just turned off strength training completely. I’ve managed to do it a couple of sessions each week for the last two but not any more than that because I keep putting it off because I’ve been told not to do it. I did it anyway (because I KNOW it’s good for me) and I have it as one of my goals listed over there on the right side bar. I think it is because I’m only walking and not running so I’m not feeling the “burn”, or “ OMG I’ve just had a fantastic workout” feeling for the last 5 weeks because of the physical issues that I was going through with the hip and all. But now it only hurts when I sleep on it or move the wrong way so I THINK there is no reason I can’t pick up my cardio a bit more. Maybe I’m not ready for running but I can certainly kick my butt on my Treadclimber or walk faster during my walks.
So while this blog was in draft mode, I read these two posts Move it People! And this one from Michelle Thanks Ladies, I needed that.
I’m posting this as is with no other further explanation to myself about what I need to do… I think I know already.
I hope everyone has a fantastic day and makes good choices
I know I’m changing mine today J
Sandra
It sure would be nice if habits took 21 days to break and 7 to make. I know if I get out of the swing of things for just a few days I am in no man's land.
ReplyDeleteI feel for you! I started getting up at 4 am to work out around 15 years ago. Literally, the only time I did not do that was when we would take our yearly vacation, but when we came home I got right back to it. Recently I added Thai Boxing to my routine. I am not yet quite fit enough to get up and run 5 miles at 4 then go to Thai Boxing in the evening - more of a leg issue than a tiredness thing. So I rearranged my schedule and now only get up super early 2 or 3 days of the week as I'm doing more running on the weekend. I noticed just this week that I'm already out of the habit and I'm starting to have to talk myself into getting up on those couple of days. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!
ReplyDeleteSo, I've shared but I've got no advice other than to just power through it and do it. Then you'll have your nice habit back.
I will agree it is a nice habit. I feel just great throughout the day when I exercise first thing in the morning and it is also out of the way for the day - I don't have to worry about fitting it in.
ReplyDeleteI have a sit down job so after sitting on the hiny all day, I don't want to get off of it at night.