Today’s post
is going to be more along the lines of a Monday Motivation blog due to a recent
encounter with this so called “slacker swag”. Due to all the chaos of
graduating, a car wreck, and knowing that I was about a week and a half away
from having surgery, I began to develop slacker swag. You know what I’m talking
about, that no motivation attitude that sinks in and urges you to skip today’s
workout, but just today. Well, folks, after you skip one, it messes up
everything. I have a workout a day for four times a week based on the busyness
of my schedule. Therefore, if I miss one, that means added stress to try to fit
in that workout you missed. Unfortunately, this can get difficult and you start
to think, “Welp, maybe I’ll just forget that workout altogether!” Then, the
next thing you know, you realized that it messed up your week schedule so you
decide that one week off will be good for you, because, besides, you deserve a
nice break after all the hard work you do on a day to day basis. Then, crap!
You realize that next week’s workout was affected by the week that you took
off, so now what?
Unfortunately, this slacker swag
comes around often and doesn’t go away easily once gotten hold of you. So how
do you avoid it? I don’t know how you do but I schedule it. It is important. It
is part of your day and is crucial to your day to live a long, healthy life.
Therefore, write it in your calendar, set an appointment on your phone, tell
those your around to help keep you accountable, stay up a little later, wake up
a little earlier, watch TV a little less. Whatever it is that you need to do,
do it! But we all get lazy sometimes. So how do you get amped up? Drink coffee,
take a pre workout, plan someone to meet you there, force yourself to get up,
start stretching and warming up, turn on your loud workout music, watch a
motivational video clip, pray for strength and motivation. Get pumped up! But
what happens when it gets the best of you and you take a break? Taking a break
and missing a work out is not the end of the world, I promise. However, you get
back up the next workout day and shake off that swag and hit it hard. Don’t do
like me and find excuses to keep putting it off. The rest feels great but the
consequences don’t. You lose that feeling of accomplishing something and all
the endorphins you produce that make you feel so good. You also don’t get to
eat like you do if you had worked out, and if you do, you’re going to gain and
notice it in your own personal problem areas. The worst consequence though, is
having to start the cycle over. I don’t know how long it takes you but it takes
me about a week to two weeks of not doing any physical exercise and then
hitting it hard to have to go through that initial post-workout soreness that
eventually goes away with routine. That’s not a fun feeling and will prevent
you from striving forward.
So do
yourself a favor: get up, get motivated, shake off that slacker swag, and go
endu!
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