…but little was accomplished. I was watching US Open tennis last night, therefore I felt like I was exercising for hours! Gosh, after watching all those Olympic sports last week and mentally competing myself, I was sure I had lost some weight from exercising almost 24 hours a day… Sadly, I never physically moved a muscle and gained a few pounds. Impossible!
The Olympics and grand-slam tennis usually motivate me to exercise more, not less. Lately, they’ve had the opposite effect. When will they invent the ability to *think* about exercise and have that just be enough to keep in shape?! Yeah, I have been lazy, I have to find a way to motivate myself and get off the couch. So far, little has worked and I’ve been more tired as the days continue. I’m not sleeping well, which could be a reason for such a drag of my feet on this issue…
Instead of hitting the gym yesterday after work, I headed home to “exercise outdoors”. That never happened, but I squeaked out some forward and back lunges as well as 3 sets of squats and some shoulder lateral raises. Very lame! I really have to stop skipping the gym for the great outdoors, because I go home and sit down… never to make it outdoors anyway!
Do the Olympics motivate you to workout harder or just sit back and relax?
I wonder if the effect the elite athletes are having on me is me realizing I’ll never be that good, so unconsciously I’ve stopped trying at all. What I have to remind myself is that there are tons of people out there running who do it just because they can or love it, not to be the best. I’ve got to follow their lead… and get off the couch, as well as get better sleep!
Logbook Activity
- Type: Strength Training
- Date: 08/26/2008
- Time: 18:00:00
- Total Time: 00:15:00.00