I have always had a love hate relationship with exercise. I never grew up playing or watching sports, I have short legs, I don’t have the build for a runner, I looks gross when I sweat… ok fine, my relationship with exercise is more hate than love. I go to the gym because I feel like I should keep myself active, and I do love the endorphin rush afterwards. As someone who has struggled with anxiety for many years, I know that regular exercise can help regulate my mood, improve my happiness, and all that jazz. But I still hate it sometimes.
Besides all my ‘excuses’, it doesn’t help that I am an insanely clumsy person with no hand eye coordination. I have FALLED OFF the rower at the gym (don’t ask- I rowed too vigorously and my butt lifted off the seat and landed on the bar in front), hit my knee on the bike at spin, accidentally kicked off one shoe as I danced at Zumba, and bumped into tall lulu lemon goddesses next to me several times over the years.
One thing that has made me hate the gym less in 2018 is something I never in a million years thought was possible. Waking up to go to the gym before work. Now anyone who knows me well knows I am not a morning person. You are talking about a girl that had multiple alarm clocks along the corridor leading to the bathroom so she would literally have to get out of bed! But after several weeks of telling myself I would go straight to the gym after work and then driving straight home, I decided to give this morning thing a try. It was really hard at first (I quickly learnt NOT to have a latte before a high intensity cardio class!) but I have to say I now love going to work knowing that my dreaded exercise is done for the day.
I won’t lie to you and pretend I love squeezing myself into a pair of Kmart leggings at 6 am on a Friday morning. I won’t even tell you that I have ‘more energy for the day ahead’. No, I just go in the mornings because it’s good to get it over with. And yes, I make a point to very smugly tell everyone at work that I went to the gym that morning. Given that many of my colleagues also gym every morning and they have young kids and school drop off, it’s really not that impressive but whatever, I went to the gym. I exercised. Please give me props. Thanks.
Note: Actual image of self exercising not pictured. Who actually looks like that in a class?
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