Renew

Usually about this time in January, the resolution crowd is feeling tired.  That first spurt of energy has sputtered out and many of us are sore and cranky.  It might seem like too much trouble to get off the couch.

I have good news.  Or at least some good news.  The couch can be our friend.  Not one of us should be working out at full speed every single day for hours for the rest of our lives.  Most of us were already good at the resting part, so we focused on the moving part of life and forgot that rest is, in point of fact, useful and necessary.

No, I’m not saying that we should be binge-watching all 21 seasons of Midsommer Murders to recuperate from all the great new movement we’re incorporating into our lives.  But a rest day with a reasonable amount of couch time is definitely good for us.

And then we can go back to our workouts, renewed.

We can do this.