Monday, January 5, 2015

It's cold!


It’s a bright new year and I am so motivated to… go back to bed.

I have a cold.  I may assure you that I am dying, but I’m not.  I have stuffy everything and a cough and a headache and all the usual symptoms.  I am crabby and achy.  So what to do about exercise?

Go gently.

Today is not the day for me to ride the extra hill miles, or to add a few more intense intervals to my cardio training.  Not the day to nudge the bench press weight up one notch.  Not the day to tackle some of those tough Pilates exercises.  Today the goal is to show up.

Fitness is a process.  The good news about that is that no one day is the be all and end all of success.  The bad news is that it is never done, crossed off forever.  Which means that I—we—have to keep on doing it.


So:  show up.  Take the dog around the block.  Spend five minutes on the bike.  Do one set of pushups.  Then go rest and get well.

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