#328 ~ Jim

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This is the locker room at the spa floor of the gym I go to. 


I've been working out for about 2 years now, almost half of that time at the gym. You know how fitness geeks are always talking about that adrenaline rush you get when you work out, how your body CRAVES exercise, and how you REALLY REALLY feel good after an especially difficult workout that you somehow survived? 

That doesn't really happen until after you've been working out for a while. The first year will be full of being lazy and practically bribing yourself (with food and/or money) to go to the gym/exercise. But soldier on. By the second year, working out will be such a part of your routine that no amount of excuses (coming from yourself or the people around you) can stop you from getting your daily workout. Trust.

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  1. DentographerNovember 25, 2011 at 12:03 AM

    Amin! Kudos!

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  2. SuzannNovember 25, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Hey! When I get back .. do you think I would be able to get like a membership for a month??

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  3. nessreenNovember 25, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    Suzann, yes! They do offer monthly membership.

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  4. SuzannNovember 25, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    Oooooh how much?

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  5. AliaJanuary 27, 2012 at 9:39 PM

    I googled you for this: "The first year will be full of being lazy and practically bribing yourself (with food and/or money) to go to the gym/exercise. But soldier on. By the second year, working out will be such a part of your routine that no amount of excuses (coming from yourself or the people around you) can stop you from getting your daily workout. Trust."

    Because right now, I have no idea where in the world I could find it in me to get up and do a damn simple tadasana.

    Much less write. And I fear that if I lax on one, I'll lax in all of them. And ZOMG then I'd die forgotten and irrelevant to the world!!

    Tell me this dip (much like the rush and everything else in the world) just comes and goes and goes again? Please?

    I have always believed and clung to everything you said. Please?

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  6. nessreenJanuary 28, 2012 at 1:18 AM

    Alia <3 <3

    I know this dip all too well. I'm in the middle of one myself. Not only does it come and go, it also COMES BACK AGAIN. In fact, it's ALWAYS THERE. It never really leaves.

    I've made friends with it. It's my friend. I'm okay with its existence, and I co-exist with it. I strike up a conversation with my lows, and I continue talking to it WHILE I PICK UP MY BUTT AND JUST DO IT. Co-existence is the key word.

    At the risk of sounding a little too zen for my own good, I'll tell you what I always tell myself:

    Every minute is a clean slate. Failing once doesn't mean I'll fail all of them. I slip, I get up, I don't look back. The moment I slip is the very same moment I earned another chance to start over.

    Get up, tadasana, write two sentences, publish it. You win again. Sometimes, there is no depth or profundity to the things we think we can't do, so there's no point overthinking it.

    Thank you for this comment. It's just the push I needed. BRB, going running. I'll see you on the other side.

    <3

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