Had a nice full body workout yesterday and everything is pleasantly sore. Pretty happy about that. I will probably not get to work out the rest of the weekend heading to Austin to see my nieces, one is in a basketball tourney and the other is going to be playing her first soccer game. Will be a busy weekend for me. I may take my "Son of the Beast" ropes up there and TRY to get something in. However things will be so busy if I can't I am not going to be upset about it.
As of Monday my plan is to make sure I get up and workout Monday - Friday whether lifting or not. For a while I would neglect any conditioning or athletic type drills, or sessions like I used to do. Fear of injuring myself as I got tighter and less mobile had me shying away from these types of things. The truth of the matter is that the lack of doing any of that was what was causing me to get tighter and less mobile. Making me far more prone to injury. The more I got injured the more over cautious I became. That only resulted in a repetitive cycle of injury and down time followed by being even more cautious and led to completely uninspired training. Being uninspired in the gym obviously led to less passion and no drive to get into the gym. I could muster motivation for short periods but inevitably would get injured repeating the cycle. Add that to the chaos that has been my life the last 2 years and it just gradually wore the passion away even though I have continued to have an extreme desire to regain my old passion and conditioning level.
I also find I need more structure than most due to my ADHD. So not having a set schedule that I held myself accountable to was allowing me to skip sessions guilt free. When everything is a maybe then there is no sense of disappointment or failure if it doesn't come to fruition. I am not saying I need a completely structured workout at all times, I am definitely fully capable and knowledgeable enough to train instinctively however I must commit myself to doing some sort of workout activity Monday - Friday regardless of if I feel like it unless I am sick or TRULY in deep need of recovery.
I am breaking the cycle damn it!
Starting Monday I would appreciate if some of you might help me with accountability while I am retraining the habit of going to the gym in the mornings. If any of you notice I am not posting that I worked out in the morning during the week days politely call me out on it. Remind me I need to remain consistent with my morning workouts so I can achieve my goals.
