Working out is hard to do. It requires time, energy, and motivation. Let’s be real, those are things many of us are short on these days. So when you finally decide to find the time, energy, and motivation, you want to put in a solid workout. The one way to do that is through hard work that stretches the limit of the energy and motivation mustered up for that day. It is during that time you wish you never stopped working out to begin with or started when you were more naturally in shape.
There was a time when I made the effort to work out daily. Worse then that, there was a time when I would do a DVD workout during the kid’s nap time and when my husband got home we would go to the gym to workout. I was in shape, felt great, and looked about a hundred times better then I do today. Mostly, I remember feeling great even over looking better. How I felt was my motivation to continue. Ironically, how felt after my last workout made me want to quit.
I don’t mind being tired. I don’t mind my muscles aching, I don’t even mind sweating. What I did mind was how out of shape I felt. It had been years since I engaged in a regular workout routine and it sure felt like it. I was miserable. I could not keep up and I wanted to stop about 15 minutes into the routine. It was disheartening. I wondered if I should just throw in the towel and get used to being out of shape and overweight. Basically, my pride was hurt. So I had a decision to make. I could give up or stomp out feelings of pride and fight. I wanted to give up. However, I will continue on until I meet that girl again who loved how she felt working out and being in shape. She is somewhere under that 30 extra pounds