dont care if it makes me uncool, im buying into the HYPE
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
*repost from last yea- cause I need it*
In approximately 24 to 72 hours from now, the gyms will be flooded with New Year’s Resolutionaries stealing our treadmills and stair climbers and sweating on the weight benches and crowding our streets and buying all the protein bars and shouldering you out of crowded gym locker rooms.
But… who was here first?
Everyone say it with me now…
IT DOESNT MATTER
Let’s steal all these newbie’s motivation. It’s ok, it grows back.
Before you launch into an uproar over sabotaging the newly committed (whether they stick around for the long haul or never come back after Monday) let me clarify that that is not what I am talking about.
The whole country, and probably loads of other countries, are gearing up for the big Jan 1 Exercise and Diet Launch. It happens every year, some of us may even have once been part of that wave. Suddenly 19 gazillion people want to lose weight, get fit, skinny up, slim down, pump iron, run a mara or just are tired of being overweight and *THIS* is the year they are going to make it happen for themselves.
In turn, the TV is flooded with all kinds of new workouts and gizmos, the gyms are having sales left and right and waiving registration fees and giving you good specials on classes and premium features. Everyone is out walking. Everyone is heading to the gym. Everyone is skipping the junk food aisle and spending a little more time in the produce section.
So what do the rest of usually do this time of year?
Sneer.
Oh yeah I said it, you’re busted, so I am, but mostly you LOL
Why do we sneer? Cause we were here first? What are we? 8? Is it because we are pretty sure they dont mean it and even though they are here at the gym this week, we *KNOW* that they wont be next week? Cause they act like they know everything and are old pros and we know they just pulled the tags off their shiny new workout clothes?
SO WHAT
LEAVE THEM ALONE
instead… why dont we take a few cues from them… (like literally steal them)(jk) Let’s ride this wave for all its worth and when it dies off… well then we’ll find new motivation somewhere else- but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Aren’t shiny new workout clothes fun? Dont they make ya wanna go to the gym or workout?
Isn’t it easier to do things when you are following a crowd instead of struggling as the only one who cares?
If you cant get on the trusty old treadmill, won’t it force you to step outside your comfort zone and discover new areas of the gym? Ain’t that how plateaus are broken? (*gasp* yeah… i totally just scienced you)
Isn’t that raring, ready to go, balls to the wall, unstoppable resolve of theirs contagious?
isn’t this our chance to be the student becoming the teacher? Don’t we now have a wealth of advice to stand up to knowitalls or to help lost wandering newbs?
Isnt a fresh start simply that? refreshing?
I’m going to jump on the bandwagon of New Year’s Resolutionaries and see if they can be my tugboat til I can pull my motivation back together.
I haven’t been exercising much- my daily walks have been kapoot since the blizzard - sorry- cant power walk on black ice, yall. My eating has improved but I still saw a gain recently and Im going to have to stand up and show myself that I’m boss.
But for now, I may wallow for 24 hours. And on January 1, when my gym membership kicks back in, I’ll be there with bells on alongside the rest of the bright eyed and bushy tailed participants in the movement of all that is new and exciting and filled with hope and the promise of results.
And I really dont care if that makes me an uncool sell-out traitor… cause uh… Imma be losin weight yo
In approximately 24 to 72 hours from now, the gyms will be flooded with New Year’s Resolutionaries stealing our treadmills and stair climbers and sweating on the weight benches and crowding our streets and buying all the protein bars and shouldering you out of crowded gym locker rooms.
But… who was here first?
Everyone say it with me now…
IT DOESNT MATTER
Let’s steal all these newbie’s motivation. It’s ok, it grows back.
Before you launch into an uproar over sabotaging the newly committed (whether they stick around for the long haul or never come back after Monday) let me clarify that that is not what I am talking about.
The whole country, and probably loads of other countries, are gearing up for the big Jan 1 Exercise and Diet Launch. It happens every year, some of us may even have once been part of that wave. Suddenly 19 gazillion people want to lose weight, get fit, skinny up, slim down, pump iron, run a mara or just are tired of being overweight and *THIS* is the year they are going to make it happen for themselves.
In turn, the TV is flooded with all kinds of new workouts and gizmos, the gyms are having sales left and right and waiving registration fees and giving you good specials on classes and premium features. Everyone is out walking. Everyone is heading to the gym. Everyone is skipping the junk food aisle and spending a little more time in the produce section.
So what do the rest of usually do this time of year?
Sneer.
Oh yeah I said it, you’re busted, so I am, but mostly you LOL
Why do we sneer? Cause we were here first? What are we? 8? Is it because we are pretty sure they dont mean it and even though they are here at the gym this week, we *KNOW* that they wont be next week? Cause they act like they know everything and are old pros and we know they just pulled the tags off their shiny new workout clothes?
SO WHAT
LEAVE THEM ALONE
instead… why dont we take a few cues from them… (like literally steal them)(jk) Let’s ride this wave for all its worth and when it dies off… well then we’ll find new motivation somewhere else- but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Aren’t shiny new workout clothes fun? Dont they make ya wanna go to the gym or workout? Isn’t it easier to do things when you are following a crowd instead of struggling as the only one who cares? If you cant get on the trusty old treadmill, won’t it force you to step outside your comfort zone and discover new areas of the gym? Ain’t that how plateaus are broken? (*gasp* yeah… i totally just scienced you) Isn’t that raring, ready to go, balls to the wall, unstoppable resolve of theirs contagious? isn’t this our chance to be the student becoming the teacher? Don’t we now have a wealth of advice to stand up to knowitalls or to help lost wandering newbs? Isnt a fresh start simply that? refreshing? I’m going to jump on the bandwagon of New Year’s Resolutionaries and see if they can be my tugboat til I can pull my motivation back together.
I haven’t been exercising much- my daily walks have been kapoot since the blizzard - sorry- cant power walk on black ice, yall. My eating has improved but I still saw a gain recently and Im going to have to stand up and show myself that I’m boss.
But for now, I may wallow for 24 hours. And on January 1, when my gym membership kicks back in, I’ll be there with bells on alongside the rest of the bright eyed and bushy tailed participants in the movement of all that is new and exciting and filled with hope and the promise of results.
And I really dont care if that makes me an uncool sell-out traitor… cause uh… Imma be losin weight yo
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verblife posted this
Im doing this for VANITY reasons, but who cares if I end up healthy on the inside along the way.
