Ok, So the last stretch of my 2 week challenge was, well...challenging. It started out w/ Sunday. Not one day after i skip a workout, do I go ahead and skip another one! The beach was just SO relaxing, and I really needed that, so I didn’t really argue when my friend asked me to go again the next day. At this point, I’m seriously thinking “God, I’m a fuck-up!” I have this mission, that’s only 2 weeks long, and I feel like I’m not really taking it seriously by skipping a workout.
Point: Yeah, I’m really hard on myself sometimes.
Counter-point: But sometimes not hard enough, or else I would’ve made it to the gym. Right?
But it gets worse. The very next day, I didn’t plan well enough and missed another workout. That’s three days in a row w/o a workout. It’s not so much that I would’ve worked out all 3 days. At most it would’ve been 2 workouts/1 rest day or vice-versa. But c’mon! Get it together man! I kinda felt like shit, so I texted my trainer/best friend, Kevin, to let him know what was up. Our convo went as follows:
Me: ok. now question for you. i missed my workout today, which means im doing 4 days in a row this week. how do i structure them so im not burnt out 2:05 PM
Me: i was thinking, full-body, upper body, lower body, and then a full-body again. and then i'll be in cali recovering on the beach next week. 2:06 PM
Kevin Hanover: craziness! that sounds like a plan. don't know what else to tell ya. ur not gonna get enough rest 2:08 PM
Me: i know. i kinda shitted on myself this weekend. went to the beach both days, then woke up late and took too long doing laundry so no gym 2day. damn it man! 2:11 PM
Kevin Hanover: suck it up, don't punish yourself for poor planning! just go with the flow 2:13 PM
Me: i hope you know im putting that in the blog. 2:15 PM
Me: maybe my readers will cut me some slack. thx 2:15 PM
Kevin Hanover: LoL 2:17 PM
So, that helped ease my guilt a little bit, and reinforce my previous thought about being too hard on myself. I am human after all, I’m allowed to not be perfect. But it also really made me focus on the remaining 4 days, and get to the task that was at hand. After all, I had set out on a mission to gain as much weight as possible in two weeks, kick-start my way back into fitness, and re-cement some old good habits that I had grown lax on.. Even though there really wasn’t a way to fail (because I didn’t set a concrete number goal), I still felt like not giving my best effort was sort of like losing in a way. Not giving your all just doesn’t feel good to me. The next four days were going to be important. I knew that, and decided to take them seriously.
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