No I am not blowing off any steam in the blog I don't think that would help anyone. However I was canceled today from work which means my pay will be short this week, but no worries I will be fine. I bring this issue up because that is the steam I was needing to blow off. So I went the gym and was there for around 2 hours. Thirty minutes on the treadmill, thirty on the elliptical, and just under an hour on weight machines. Now while on the treadmill and elliptical I did get bored some I guess my steam wasn't that hot...lol, but when I got to the weight machines I thought about nothing but doing the weight machines properly. Today is the longest workout I have had in years, which I think was in part to my determination to get the machines right and not the steam blowing. I know that exercise is suppose to be freeing and an outlet, but I am not so sure it will ever be that for me, or maybe I just need to grow up.......
So I ask you, what kind of experience in your head is the gym for you? Relaxing? Steam blowing? Freeing? Alone time? A reflecting time? Or just something you have to do and get bored easily?
I am also trying to get a playlist together for my workouts and coming up a bit short, any ideas?
Almost 2 years post-op I am just now getting into a workout groove. I tend to zone out during my workouts and try to think little. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. My body has just started to crave the physical activity, I guess that means it is getting used to it.
ReplyDeleteThe songs I love while I’m exercising are…
*Dog Days are Over by Florence & The Machine – great song, even has “run fast” in the lyrics. It always pumps me up.
*Everybody Wang Chung Tonight – I don’t know why but it makes me smile
*All Dressed in Love by Jennifer Hudson
Those are the first three that came to mind. Hope they help!