9/5/2023 0 Comments Resolutioners gymOf all the days that entire summer, the one I remember the most is getting up early to go to the gym only to get turned away. But, the point is, instead of going to the gym and achieving my goals, I ended up just working and playing video games that summer. Do I think I missed out on 2-3 months’ worth of “gains”? Not really – I don’t think working out that summer has an impact on what I look like today. BUT, the most important part of this story is that I let that beat down my morale and I didn’t work out another day that summer until school started in the fall. In hindsight, it’s funny to me, but in the moment, I was slightly mortified. I had built up the courage to finally start going to the gym only to get turned away at the front desk. Imagine not only my frustration, but my anxiety and embarrassment (not that anybody cared – this was purely internal to me). Guess what? I was turned away at the front desk because I was not enrolled in summer courses. In fact, the picture on this blog post is the day before I went to the gym – aka my first photo of what I wanted to be my eventual “progress photo”. It was in the middle of summer, I drank a few egg whites (thank you, Sylvester Stallone), and made the journey. When I went to the gym for the first time, I walked a mile across campus to get there. Third, and I know it sounds so simple, but you need to stay committed and understand that this is going to be a journey full of trials, tribulations, and errors. The only days you should miss are the days where you absolutely need to, not because it’s convenient. What I mean by that is telling yourself “yea, I’ll just get back into it later because muscle memory is a thing” – NO! See the first reason above! You are wasting days. Now, what you don’t want to do is weaponized this reasoning. I highly recommend you read some of my other posts about working out while on vacation or having to take long breaks from the gym – your body will bounce back. Whatever cliché resonates with you, whether “this is a marathon not a sprint” or “it’s about the long game not the short game,” take it to heart because it’s true. Look, if you don’t miss a day, great, you’re superman, but there is inevitably something that is going to come up that causes you to miss a day, and you know what, it could even happen as early as January 2nd. Second, you’re going to miss days, and while you do need to try your hardest not to miss days, do not let it bring you down. That’s 16 days of your life that you’re not going to get back, so start going! Do not put January 1st on a pedestal or peg it as some magical day where things will “start” for you. You’ve already wasted enough time by not marching toward your goals, act NOW. Same goes for the gym – if you’re sitting there and it’s December 15th, do NOT tell yourself that you have 16 more days to mess around and eat poorly because “January 1st is it”. It’s so easy to say “5 more minutes of browsing Facebook” or “let me just snooze the alarm for another 15 minutes”. One problem I think we all have is we defer our goals. January 1st is just like any other day of the year – do not think you have to wait until January 1st to do anything. With that said, I think it’s important for all New Year’s gym goers to think about a few things as they gear up for the gym.įirst, let me just start off by saying we don’t need a specific day of the year where we have to do something. For some reason, we like the idea of January 1st being the day where we draw a line in the sand and commit to a change because it’s just easy to measure results and divvy up stages in our life by years. We’re all sitting there at the end of December telling ourselves that 2020 is the year that we’re going to get fit, the year we’re going to lose weight, or the year we’re going to start taking care of our bodies (or if you’re my dad, you’d have a resolution of not drinking soda – I’ve heard that for the last 20 years and it still never gets old!). The picture in this post is me the day I went to the gym at my university for the first time.
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