Head work, Brainstorming and Planning for Fitness Goals.

Head work, Brainstorming and Planning for Fitness Goals. 03/17/2010

Hiking through the Grand Canyon, Grampians, Victoria, followed by a 400 meter run, was my exercise yesterday. Today was a 9 kilometer, hilly bush walk.

Today was my week three, weigh in for my Michelle Bridges 12 week body transformation course.

I can already feel the difference, I have lost 2.5 % of my body weight over the two weeks, building on the weight loss I had prior to beginning the program. I am also so much stronger, I am building more muscle cell mass, and I am very happy, with the results, of two week following the 12WBT. I know that at this rate, I will get far greater benefits, following a trainer’s advice, than I was achieving on my own.

The last weekend, of March, we are supposed to do a physical event that will be something ‘special and challenging’ .

This Saturday, is the big, burn 1000 calories day in the 12WBT, program. It is also the day, I pack up the caravan and move on, and need to drive for many hours, and have my creative work waiting for me, when I arrive, meals to prepare, you all know the pressure, of some days, just not being long enough, to seemingly, find time for ourselves.

I do hear, Mich (Michele Bridges), saying ‘no excuses, just do it’, and I am striving to work out how I can comply with my training schedule and not ‘cop out’, because it is too hard to fit in.

It has been all those ‘just too hard to find the time to fit it in’, excuses, in the past, that have held me at a weight stall, mid way to my slimming goal and I am breaking out of that bad habit of accepting excuses not to look after myself well.

So very belatedly, considering the amount of warning, Michelle, gave us who are doing the 12WBT, program, I am thinking of ways I can have my big physical goal Saturday.

I have come up with a solution.

This option is, almost scary; to me could I get out of bed, early, before my breakfast, and run.

I have tried to change from an owl to a lark before, last time I exercised in the morning I injured myself. I can make heaps of excuses to ‘cop out’, of this one, I am older; I need time for my body to warm up so I do not hurt myself. My computer is faster in the morning, it is a great time to publish creative writing I love doing. I love coffee in bed and leisurely waking up OK that is the excuses out of the wayJ. Now remembering I am a grown up, accountable for my actions and responsible for setting the path to the goals I want and looking at the many advantages of rising early to exercise, here is what I can see.-

If I rise at dawn (when is that anyway), I could do my 1000 calorie big Saturday work and be back at the caravan by 9 to 9.30 am in time to be out of the caravan park by the check out time of 10am. I would have all of the 4 hour or so drive to the next destination rest and rest and recover (with leg stretch walk breaks every hour), and I can still do my creative work and make simple healthy meals at the other end of the day’s drive, fall into bed, feeling proud that I fitted it all in.

By giving up a slow wake up had found me an extra hour perhaps in a busy day. It all does sound fine in theory, and I know it is going to be one of the hardest things I could ever possibly do.

To change a lifetime habit and exercise early, will be the most difficult thing for me to achieve, I have made a couple of attempts in the past. If it were easy for me to do, it would not be the ‘big physical challenge’; I am supposed to set myself to do, this weekend. There are no ‘real’, obstacles that would, prevent me, achieving, a breakthrough. The only thing that holds me back is my own, ‘mind set’. . Too much analyzing, I think. My trainer, Mich, calls this, ‘Analysis Paralysis’, lol J, and say’s ‘No excuses, Just DO IT’.