To-Don't List

It seems like my to-do list just keeps getting longer.  Here are some things we can all take off our fitness lists:

 

1.     Trash talk.  I don’t mean the funny kind that motivates us.  The kind where we spend a bunch of time beating ourselves up about how we aren’t working out enough or we’re eating too much or whatever.  It doesn’t help.

2.     Comparisons.  That guy over there may in fact be able to bench press our entire body, but that is him.  That woman may look exactly like a supermodel, lack of body fat included, but we may not have those genes.  We have to do our workout, not somebody else’s.

3.     Competition.  This one is related to the comparison one.  Our workout is not better because we lifted more than that other person.  We are not even better because we lifted more than we did yesterday.

4.     Stuff we really hate.  There are so many kinds of exercise out there that we really don’t have to do anything we detest, or at least not very often (looking at you, lunges).  We can find other ways to work the same muscle groups or get in the cardio or build our flexibility and balance.