Well, I am finally back on line! December was a great month. I was able to really enjoy the holidays with my family and friends, and for the first part of the month even managed to stay on track with my fitness goals. It wasn't until Christmas Day that I fell off the wagon, and when I say I fell off the wagon.... I mean I REALLY fell hard. My downfall began with the crud which landed me on steroids and antibiotics for a week. It ended with a sugar binge and a 10 day hiatus from the gym!
I have to say I was surprised at how quickly I lost my will power when I felt bad. I guess because I was forced to stay sedentary for periods of time, when I did feel a little better, I easily fell back into a routine of "everything else needs to come first"! Combine that with a house full of amazing baked goods and a nagging cough, it was the perfect equation for apathy. So yesterday I decided I would kick start my efforts again by starting back to my pre-Christmas routine. As part of my effort to ensure I was reaching my goals during the month of December, I had taken to walking laps around the interior of my office multiple times through out the day. This achieved two things...it kept me warm and dry for my daily exercise breaks, but it also helped to boost my total miles each day, and if you read my last blog, I had se very specific goals for each week. One lap around the office equaled about .10 miles. Yesterday I managed 25 laps throughout the day and then followed that with my first trip to the gym of 2012!
To be honest, I thought the gym would be overrun by people spurred on by New Year's resolutions, so I was pleasantly surprised not to have to fight for a machine. I decided to start with a slower pace since I was still recovering and it had been awhile since I had been in. This turned out to be a good decision in more ways than one. First I had forgotten my number one rule when I hopped on the machine, use the restroom first. One quarter of a mile in and I realized that even the current pace was too fast without an empty bladder, so less than five minutes into my walk and I was pausing for a potty break. Ten minutes later I was buzzing along nicely again and my blackberry rang. I had also forgotten to place it on vibrate, so I quickly answered the phone to silence it, but managed instead to lose my grip on it! The phone dropped on to the moving belt below my feet and I found myself trying to quickly jump over the phone without landing on it as it flew backwards off the machine. I was so rattled, that when I reached for the pause button, I hit the emergency stop button instead and sent myself careening off the treadmill after it. Amazingly I didn't injure myself or my phone in the process.
It certainly wasn't an auspicious beginning for my first work out of the new year, but I jumped back on the treadmill anyways and put in another three miles. One thing I have learned this past year, it isn't about how pretty I look when I work-out, how hard I appear to be working out or how graceful I am when I work-out, it's just about making it through the work-out and going back again! So as I start my New Year I have come to the conclusion , it's not about the Resolutions, it's about the resolve. I just need to make it through the work-out and go back again.
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