When we get back
to exercising after a hiatus, we can be tempted to try to do everything at
once, just as hard and heavy as we did before we stopped for vacation,
celebration, injury, or other life events.
This is not a good idea. In fact,
it is a good way to end up discouraged and/or hurt.
It is just as
problematic to go too easy on ourselves.
If the goal we set is too easy, it is too easy to blow off.
The answer, of
course, lies in paying attention, with kindness. Yes, we have to work out. Yes, that means cardio and weights. See how it goes. Maybe we are ready to do two thirds of our
cardio and we drop the weights a bit for the first week or so. We have to work out with today’s body and we
might as well love today’s body because we’re stuck in it. Treat it nicely and appreciate all the things
it does.
Up from here.
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