Today’s workout was an “epic fail”. As I look back on it, I can easily count all of the obstacles that I put in my way, right from the beginning (notice I said, that I put the obstacles there, and not that they were just “there”) and how blatantly I set myself up for failure.
The first strike was that I had a bad attitude about my workout. I was doing Fire 45, which is difficult for me because of the choreography. I should have done it yesterday, but I had to flip flop my workouts due to time constraints, so I did HIIT 20 yesterday. Right from the beginning, I knew I didn’t want to do Fire 45, so my attitude was super negative.
I decided that since I had time, I would do the “new to class” version again, in the hopes that once and for all, I’d figure it out. New to class would turn the 45-minute workout in to about an hour and a half workout. So, of course if I had planned to do this, I should have done the workout early.
Strike two. I got caught up doing other things and didn’t end up getting started until after 3:30 pm. I wasn’t wasting time, but knowing I had such a long workout ahead of me, and one that was so challenging, I should have started much earlier. Not to mention, my roommate was due home by about 5, and I wasn’t sure at this point that I would even have time to do the whole thing.
One of the reasons I prefer to work out early is so that my back doesn’t hurt from sitting too long. Once I have spent the day sitting at my desk, my back pain increases and it’s harder to put my all in to my workouts. Yep, strike three! By the time I was ready to get to it, my back was really bothering me, and the idea of exercising for over an hour to Fire 45 was becoming increasingly less exciting, if that was even possible. No matter how bad I ever feel before a workout, once I get in to it, I feel great. But for some reason, I couldn't change my mind set on this one today.
So, strike one- My attitude was stinks. Strike two- I’m working out too late in the day. Strike three- I’m in pain. If this were a baseball game, I’d be done. But, no, unfortunately, I struck out one more time. I was getting hungry. I had eaten lunch about 12:45pm, so it was time for a snack, and I was feeling it. I debated eating something and waiting another hour, but then I wouldn't have been able to do Fire 45 (in hindsight…). I looked at the Turbo schedule to see what I could do to rework things, but there really wasn’t anything. I had already flip flopped two workouts and my rest day, so there weren’t any other changes I could make. I decided to wait to eat and get the workout done. Well, surprise, surprise… It didn’t get done!
I put in the Fire 45 DVD, replayed the new to class twice, got frustrated and said forget it (actually “forget” was not the word I used). No way I was going to do this workout, but I didn’t want to just walk away, so I made an attempt at Fire 45 EZ. Unfortunately, even though I love that workout, by the time I finally decided to do it, I was too far gone to make it happen. I think I did about 5 minutes of EZ and gave up.
If you set yourself up to fail, you WILL fail! Right from the start, I doomed myself with a bad attitude and extremely poor planning. I knew I didn’t like the workout I was doing, and I knew why. I should have done it in the morning, no more than two hours after breakfast when I was feeling good. I would have had plenty of time to work on the new to class section and get the moves down. There are some workouts that I can do later in the day, and I don’t have any problems but this was not one of them, and I knew that. So, tomorrow I’m going in again, but I’m going to learn from the mistakes I made today.
No one is perfect. No matter how much you love to workout or enjoy clean eating, there are going to be days you just don't want to do it. When those days happen, look back and see what changes you could have made to create a more positive experience and implement them next time so you decrease the chances of the same thing happening again. Planning ahead is the most important step to success.
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