Boy, is it easy to blow off exercising!!! Shelley was out of town last week on business and I was Mr. Mom… What a great excuse, right? I have a Gym at work so I could have exercised during my work day that started late and ended early everyday due to kid drop offs/pick ups… Work pressure got me and I blew it off for the entire week…..and after you blow it off for a week, it is even easier to blow it off some more!!! You know what got me back? This BLOG! The guilt! Letting everyone down (including myself) and especially the people who replied saying that I WAS INSPIRING THEM!!! Love to you all and I am back… Time for a new commitment. I will exercise every day this week starting today! I already did the Elliptical this morning for 45 minutes. I like this contraption because you put some good music on and you can DANCE on the damn thing! 🙂 The other day, a black guy got on next to me and I stopped dancing kinda like Michael Bolton in “Office Space” stopped singing to the RAP tune in his car when the black guy walked by selling flowers… I love that movie! Anyway, I got my bike fixed last weekend also in anticipation of my return so I will try to ride on the weekend also to supplement. I would really like to get into a routine of exercising everyday and mixing it up… I’m working on “shaping” my time commitments in other areas of my life so I can get this done…
As my brother keeps saying… “NEVER QUIT!!!”
Good to have you back Mark. Ya know it’s funny but this week I actually have (kind of) the opposite problem you had last week. Every 2 months I take a week and stay out of the gym. I have to do this basically because my lifting has become so intense and heavy that my joints take a beating – and they need extra rest. Unfortunately joints, ligaments, and cartilage take a lot longer to heal than muscles do. My shoulders and left elbow are badly in need of extra recovery time. Hoisting up 70 lb. dumbells for incline presses and shoulder presses is a dicey proposition if you aren’t on top of your game. So forcing myself to stay out of the gym and off my feet is difficult but I have to do it.
So even though you couldn’t get your workouts in last week, how was your eating?