Day 16 Max Phase (When Life Happens)

Day 16

We can’t stop the march of time. It ticks life away whether we like it or not. Life also happens sometimes whether we like it or not. Sometimes we have the best intention in the world to work out and it just doesn’t happen. That was how things went for me today.

I woke up this afternoon and realized that my daughter that is running with me in my next run had a friend over and wasn’t going to be training today. So I thought no worries my son is running in it too, he can run with me. That was a no go. He was at a friend’s house. So it was just me again. I was kind of depressed to say the least. It seemed life was determined to keep me from doing the things that I knew I should do, or at least it was giving me all the excuses I could use. Not to mention if I was going to work out I was going to have to do it fast because I had people coming over for dinner at 5 pm and then I had to be at a church activity at 6:15 pm. It was 4 pm when I woke up. ARGHH… LIFE GET OUT OF MY WAY AN LET ME GET FIT!!!!

When life happens you have to make fitness happen. For me it’s the schedule that gets in the way. For you it might be traveling for work, or working a lot, or having kids that are always asking for…something. Whatever your brand of life is, it makes it hard to get your workout in. Buckle down and do something quick if needs be. On days like today the most important thing is the habit.

So instead of a long run I took a short one. Instead of cooling down on the bike for 20 minutes I took 8 minutes. When life happens we must be flexible, and creative. The other lesson we can learn is do your work out as early as you can. I had time before I fell asleep to do a work out. I’ve done it in the past, but today I didn’t. I put it off and almost got burned.

Even though I didn’t use it today I like to use a little app called Sworkit. This app allows you to modify the time, and intensity of the work out as well as the area to be worked. It only consists of calisthenics and body weight exercises so it is the perfect app for the anywhere work out.

Life is hard. It gets in the way of life sometimes, even though that doesn’t seem possible. But you can make this work.

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. I will nor refuse to do the something I can do.”