Like It? Love It? HATE IT?
Whoops!!
I’ve been gone a while, eh?
SORRY ABOUT THAT!!
Truth is, I’m buried under trying to get my book finished and I’ve only got so many hours in the day. Something had to give.
I’ll try to check in here more often in the future…
But, the good news is, the book is coming along quite nicely. The writing is done. The pictures are done. The editing is done. I’m just in the formatting stages now. Woo hoo!! 
But I digress…
What do you do for YOUR workouts?
Do you LOVE it?
Or do you HATE it?
If you HATE it, how long do you think you’ll actually stick with it?
Cuz let me tell you, if I was doing something I hated, I wouldn’t stick with it either.
Here’s what I mean:
So, stop torturing yourself!!
Ditch the stuff you hate and dread, cuz let’s admit it: you’re gonna eventually anyway!
Find something you can look forward to and LOVE and you’ll be far more likely to stick with it and be a success!
Have a fit, fun and fantastic day.
Girlwithnoname
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May 17th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Good advice and I couldn’t agree more with the message. I always think you can learn to love anything, given enough time and the right people around you. If you carry on hating, you will never stick to it anyway.
For example I hate traditional cardio but like sports like Tennis and Squash and some team sports like football (soccer) etc. So that’s what I do for aerobic work (I know you could argue that tennis is anaerobic but you get the jist). However like I said given the right circumstances and support I could probably love running, beating your time or someone else’s etc. it all comes down to mindset in my opinion.
But yes if you truly hate something, spend that time more wisely because seriously life is too short.
Looking forward to the book BTW.
May 17th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Thanks Rob!! Appreciate your viewpoint.
and yes, the book: AAH! It’s coming!! LOL.. soooooon…!! Working hard to get ‘er done.
:-)
May 17th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Hate is why I stopped working out in the gym. I hated the social scene, I hated being indoors, I hated everyone else looking at me and vice versa, I hated that people walking by on the outside gawking at those of us working out on the inside, I hated the commute, I hated the forced AC and heat. My goodness…so many hates. I finally injured myself doing dips, egged on by a male friend, managing to pop out a rib.
From that day on, I never went back to the gym. Instead, I invested in an ipod and started climbing and running the mountains nearby, rediscovered my son’s trampoline, and went outside to do my lifting and squatting. What I realized was that if I can’t work out with fresh air and nature, I mostly hate working out all together. The one thing I still do inside at home and love is yoga — but that’s a quiet, meditative work-out. If it’s active, gotta have that fresh air. Or else I hate it.
May 17th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
OMG ZagyZebra… I totally and completely hear what you’re saying!! ALL the things you JUST said about the gym are the reasons I’m writing this book. I really want people to know how damn SIMPLE it really IS to get totally ripped without ever having to put up with that BS!!! I did it, and I know exactly what it takes, so I’m busting out all my tips, tricks and workouts that got me there.
Congrats on finding your ‘loves’ and making it happen. I wish everyone would just keep looking for their ‘thing’ til they find it. It’s so dismaying to watch people ‘try’ and quit exercise altogether when they find out they hate something, without looking for an alternative.
I happen to love lifting but hate the gym. There’s so many out there that MIGHT love lifting if they didn’t have to deal with that gym atmosphere, so here I sit, finishing the formatting of my book so I can get this info out there!!
THANKS FOR SHARING! xo