It’s hard not to follow the crowd…
The thing is that in my virtual fitness group everyone was talking about doing the next BIG program. It’s brand new with amazing results.
I still have a few pounds to lose after having baby #3, but I didn’t want to commit to this crazy ass workout routines that I may fail at. I don’t want to feel pressured into feeling guilty for not doing something. In my logical mind, the right thing to do was just to say NO.
NOT do the “HARD” stuff.
Ignoring the craze is HARD! It’s HARD not to want to go with the crowd! It’s HARD not to want those amazing results!
It’s also HARD to wake up early and get in your workout! It’s HARD to keep up with my nutrition. It’s HARD to stay consistent!
At the end of the day, I had to CHOOSE MY HARD!!!
The HARD my gut told me to follow.
I gave in… I decided to join everyone in the group and do the fitness program.
Already feeling excited about the upcoming results, I started planning what time I was going to work out and how I was going to keep up with my nutrition.
Hubby who is also in the same group decided that he too will do it.
I was like “ok, so let’s figure out at what time each of us will do our workout, so we don’t overlap”.
He, on the other hand, was planning on doing the workouts with me.
Ughh, that was the last thing I wanted to do. I am a driver; he is more of a wanderer.
I get to things quickly and stay focused as much as I can to completion. It takes him longer to get started, and he then pushes me on the workouts and that, of course, is annoying.
My patience will definitely be tested. So I told him that I didn’t want to work out with him...that I preferred we worked around our schedule.
He got offended and verbalized his frustration.
I wasn’t expecting that.
Feeling bad, I agreed to do the workout together.
On the bright side, I was going to work on my patience and spend time with him which with our schedules we didn’t much.
The journey has been interesting, to say the least!
It started off not so great.
We were getting on each other’s nerves and yelling at each other. We didn’t have a flow. I was getting resentful for setting up everything as all he had to do was wake up and just work out. I kept getting annoyed each time he would push me to go harder on my workout.
And slowly things started to shift. We needed a rhythm that worked out for both. He wanted to help set up, so he on his own decided to wake up earlier to help me. We started to plan out our day, be productive and talk about things that we didn’t have time before. The conversations started to get deeper more fulfilling. We began to hug and kiss more. We were laughing and enjoying our company so much more.
Ohhh this is fun now!
Our fitness routine discipline started to spill over into other parts of our life.
It’s amazing how focusing on our fitness and nutrition, other aspects of our life started to get better.
We first noticed it in our relationship. We looked forward to our morning date. That’s how we started to call it. We had uninterrupted time for each other, and we could talk & plan without having a little one dangling over us.
Our girlies were so much happier. They are enjoying everything so much more because we are enjoying ourselves so much more.
The energy and focus in our work became so much more intentional and apparent. Results were undeniable.
Our mindset shift has been THE biggest transformation thus far. As we are conquering our body, we are also conquering our mind. And when you conquer your mind….