Sometimes, I don’t want to get up at 4:45 in the morning to go to the pool and swim. Sometimes, the night before, I’ll weigh whether I really need to go, maybe I could just walk for exercise later in the day instead. Sometimes, when my alarm goes off, I lay in bed and debate whether to go.
At that point, the cats are walking on me, so I have to get up to feed them anyway. But sometimes I consider, should I just put my robe on and get back in bed after I feed them? Or should I suit up?
When I get to the pool, sometimes I think, well, I can always stop early if I don’t feel like doing the full workout. Fifteen laps isn’t 25, but it’s better than zero. And then I start swimming, and I think, I can stop after this set if I want to.
Sometimes, I go through all of those debates with myself. I debate because it’s hard, because I don’t want to, because I want to skip ahead to the breakfast part of my day.
But one of my favorite moments in life, and it happens almost every time I go through all of this mental nonsense about “do I swim? do I not swim?”, one of my favorite moments that I savor every time it happens, is when I touch the wall after my 25th lap and know that despite it all, I swam. I did something good for myself, I didn’t give in, I didn’t give up, and now I’m done, I got it over with, I don’t have to exercise any more that day, it wasn’t really that bad, after all, and I feel kinda good, and now I get to get out and get dressed and go home to drink coffee and eat my oatmeal with berries and nuts and nutella.
Inspirational
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This resonates! I am doing this ALL THE TIME with my workouts – constantly making deals with myself about how soon I get to quit, and I haven’t yet. Though if waking up early were a pre-req, I would simply never workout.
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Yes. I am lying here, under my 100 pound weighted Black Labrador security blanket doing mental gymnastics with the clock and myself about my workout before work.
I will do it. I will also properly exercise the Labrador. I will feel loads better. But, first, the nonsense. 💜
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