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| Originally posted by SpiralChrissy How do you all find the motivation to keep going? |
To add more to what MS said... First off, did you go 3 days in a row? That's great! Now give yourself one day to rest. If you feel like you need to do something for your body on the day off, spent a few minutes stretching, concentrating on the areas you worked particularly hard at the gym. More motivation: Keep a log of what you've done and how you feel. Some of my log is scattered through Personal Growth running threads, but I keep a spreadsheet where I have columns for biking, jogging and walking minutes, and then additional columns for situps and pushups. I put in bold at the top of the sheet my week's goals. When I make the goal, I change the times to green. It feels so good to open the document and see a page of green. You could do the same thing on a piece of paper.
If a weekly time goal doesn't work for you, you could do something like set a reward for yourself once you meet some other goal. "If I go to the gym 4 times a week for the next 3 weeks then I'll get that CD I've been wanting." If you don't do it, you can't buy your CD. Alternatively, you could set it as "When I get so that I can jog on the treadmill for 15 minutes, I'm going to get a babysitter and go to the movies with DH."
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| This may sound crazy, but I feel so much more optimistic and prductive. Is there such thing as a walkers high! |
MS-- Wow, you're doing such an awsome job. I'm kind of touched and offended at the fact that you take my name in vain when you do your pushups. 50? Really? Damn. I'm impressed. I've also lost most of my baby belly. I'm having fun watching the definition move in from the edges.
You're smart to stick to the program, because pushing yourself too hard can lead to injuries. I know that's a risk I'm taking by going off the program, but I don't have an alarm on my clock I use for timing myself, and I keep forgetting to check it. I think I'd be up to the 30 minutes of running this week anyways, so I guess I got so that I didn't need the breaks right when the program said I wouldn't need them. That may just be a sign of a good program.
No jogging last night -- My husband wanted to go out to dinner, so he picked me up from work. We had a wonderful night out, though, and it was nice to have a break. I'm working at home today to avoid the strike on campus, so we may take a family trip to the park for some jogging, roller blading and duck watching.
:. It is pretty hilly (long steady hills) where I run, and I also have the babyjogger and one of the dogs. But the hills have definitely gotten easier. I do feel like I need to get new shoes though, I'm having a lot of foot pain. But then a part of myself thinks that that is due to all the extra weight I'm still carrying.
