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Greetings! Greetings from the Poconos! We couldn't take it any longer. The ghost town that our community turned into when public schools closed for winter break this week finally became unbearable. We have confirmed by phone and/or FaceBook that ninety percent of our town has flown the entire family of five, first class to either:
A.Bali with a side trip to BoraBora
or
B.To their ski mansion in Montana
or
C.Elite Baseball Camp to personal train with Cal Ripken Jr for the week.
Or so it seems.
After three days of three teenagers whining in three different, yet equally irritating tones of voices, we had to GET OUT.
"Mom, Wait until the commercial"
crossed with
" I can't go outside and play when there's no one to play with"
divided by
"There's nothing to do"
equals
"Let's go somewhere"
with a remainder of
"I don't care where."
We piled into the car with every electronic device smaller than a bread basket for a few days of skiing. I don't just say that to alarm all my close friends who know that I just had my hip replaced a month ago. Skiing just seemed safer than staying home one minute longer.
That's how desperate I was.
But I'm not NOT skiing because of my hip.
I'm not skiing because I've got a severe case of the
"I don't feel like its" (although I do admit that skiing is probably NOT the first activity I should reintroduce my new hip joint to, especially with my inability to stay upright on my skis for more than thirty seconds.)
"I don't feel like it" is common with both kids and adults, but especially with teenagers. In the fitness world it peaks in late February. For me, after spending a month NOT exercising,
now that I'm able to,
I just don't feel like it.
I feel more like this cat.
I am, at this very moment, supposed to be away from the fireplace
and out of the ski lodge and
down in the fitness center doing leg abductions.
So you are the only one who is benefiting from this article because it really is just thinly veiled procrastination.
But since it has a side benefit of completing my weekly rant,
oops, I mean newsletter, I prefer to call it COcrastination.
And, Folks, I know exactly what my fitness advice would be to myself
if I were ever to become smart enough to listen to my own rants.
There is only one way to overcome "I don't feel like it"
when it comes to fitness
and NIKE said it best.
JUST DO IT.
Put aside all the thinking.
Pick one single task to start with and go.
"Feeling Like It" will soon
show it's peppy self if you (I) can just get moving.
"I don't feel like it" is a downward spiraling energy drain and the one thing
people need to reverse the energy vacuum is to get moving,
as impossible as that sometimes seems.
Here is a way of looking at an energy cycle:
Build it up,
use it up,
restore it,
repeat.
But if we do not have an energy store built up,
we need ACTION
(that's the single task I told you,
I mean me, to pick)
which acts as a catalyst to being motivated which leads to energy,
which jump-starts the cycle
in a more productive direction.
So that you (I) can make more energy
for the next round.
Anyone care to join me for a couple sets of leg lifts?
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