Month: January 2011

>Have you ever left your house for the day forgetting something …like rings or earrings you always wear, your lunch or something you need for work? Or left the house forgetting to do something…like make coffee, wear the same color socks or God, forbid, brush your teeth??!! Let’s face it. We have all had those days when you just forget. And it drives me nuts when that happens. I feel naked without my rings and grumpy that I had to pay for coffee that is sub-par, when I could have had the good fresh beans free from home. But, I digress…

I’ve found that it makes it easier to remember for me to do something routine like that by taking steps to ensure I remember by doing certain things ahead of time…like setting the coffee pot the night before, laying out clothes the night before, etc. It doesn’t always work, but it gives me a fighting chance.

For the last few weeks I have been trying to move my work out time to early mornings in order to make sure to get it in, especially with the training starting soon. I realized this morning that for me working out early in the morning really just needs to become a habit – like brushing my teeth. I very seldom forget to brush my teeth because it has just become a habit; part of my routine. I would feel off (and gross, I might add) if I forgot to do it one day and would probably find my way to a drugstore to purchase a spare toothbrush and toothpaste to take care of business. The same thing can happen for working out, I think. I want it to become such a part of my daily routine that I really miss it during the day if I don’t do it. I am half-way there, at this point, I think. I definitely have a more productive day when I have done it and feel a bit off when I haven’t. I have strategies in place to help make it a routine -like having the workout clothes out and ready in the bathroom, and having the water bottle ready to go. And most importantly, I’m trying to commit to going to bed by 10:30pm at the latest so I can get up at 5am! So far, so good this week – 3 days up and one more to go!!

Now, does anybody have some floss??!!

>So, apparently I found my Olympic event this morning at boot camp – should I ever decide to train, and get accepted into the Olympics that is. As part of our warm-up, we did these “bear crawl” exercises across the gym floor. First, we did the modified one which was we essentially bent down with our legs straight and walked our hands up to the top of where we couldn’t reach anymore and then walked our legs up, and so on for the entire length of the gym and then back – backwards. Not that I’m competitive or anything, but I totally schooled the other two ladies with this! I wasn’t really trying to, but it was just easy for me, I guess. We have done similar exercises in Bosu class, so maybe that is why it was my “event”, but it def was. Then, we did the total bear crawl where you basically just crawl across the floor on your hands and feet (very hard to describe in words). Again, I bested my bootcamp friends (who, by the way are very nice – and just the right amount of “chattiness”). I even heard one of them mention, “Whoa, Lisa, you are a beast at this!!” And it wasn’t like I was just beating them by a hair – I was beating them by like a half-court length! It is just so random, because it was totally easy for me and I didn’t’ think anything of it where it was obviously challenging to others who were at a similar fitness level as me, from what I could tell.

This is so true in life too, isn’t it? Sometimes we downplay our strengths rather than celebrate them. It is so much easier to be critical of the things we need to work on and focus on those, rather than appreciate or even be aware of our strengths or areas in which we excel.

So, do you think the bear crawl would be in the summer or winter Olympic games? Just checkin’!