Enthusiasm can get us
into trouble. In general, I am in favor
of having lots of it. It’s
inspiring. It helps us try new things
and embrace the weird and wonderful. It
can also lead to those moments when we have to ask, “How did I end up here?”
I’m talking about fitness
contexts here, so I don’t mean those times when we wake up wearing a hula skirt
and several decorative fish, or even those times when the conversation in the
car is so good that we pass the right exit and don’t notice for another
seventeen miles.
No, it’s when we start
something new in fitness and fall in love with it, or when we are getting back
to something we love after an injury or vacation or other layoff. We are so excited to be doing this wonderful
thing that we overdo ourselves. Too much
of anything can hurt us.
By all means we need to
find the play and the fun. But we also
need to have a real sense of enough so we stop before we get hurt.
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