I have more to say about joy and working out. Sure, on some level, we just have to get our workouts done. Blah blah lift lift run run, right?
But really, when we work out, we are giving ourselves a gift. The time we spend working out is invested in improving our quality of life, and often in increasing our quantity of life. We work because life is good and we like it and we want to feel good in it. We work out of love.
That’s great as far as it goes. I love a high-level perspective. But then I’m looking at the burpees and lunges I have planned and maybe I’m not feeling the love.
There are two ways to deal with this. One is: skip the damn burpees. There are very few exercises that we actually have to do. We can work our muscles some other way. The other is: get them done quick and get on to what we want to be doing. Think of the exercises we don’t like but need to do as vitamins or vaccinations or something slightly unpleasant that saves us from something truly unpleasant.
Look for the joy.
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