The Will to Exercise
Finding the will to exercise seems like fighting a losing battle. Sure, when I actually get started with the exercise, I’m like a steamroller. I can go on for hours if necessary, the problem for me is actually starting.
The reason I lost so much weight in high school, and then again in college, was because I had a coach or dance instructor riding my ass, telling me to “push it” and “it doesn’t hurt if you take yourself to another place in your mind” and “I’ll kick your ass if you even think about stopping” and other motivating comments like that.
Now that I’m no longer in school, I need to find that motivation elsewhere, but I have no where to turn. The dance classes I’m taking right now help a lot because they’re structured; I know where I need to be and when I need to be there. But, they aren’t working fast enough and what about days like today? I know I should have exercised this morning, but when presented with the option of sleeping in or dragging my butt out of bed to do manual labor, the choice was obvious.
I guess I really do need to pay someone to come jump on me every morning and tell me to roll out of bed, we’ve got exercising to do. Gah.
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