Since my speaking schedule has slowed down for the holidays, I’m spending most of December in California visiting family, friends, and my girlfriend (who relocated to San Diego in June). I recognized that while I did better this year, my fall fitness was once again lacking–it remains tough to do with the hotel gym schedule and my flight times.
So I signed up for Barry’s Bootcamp in San Diego.
I’m three days in and I’m totally exhausted and sore–but in a good way. Each 60 minute workout has burned 900+ calories according to my heart rate monitor. Even though I’ve worked out with a personal trainer in the past, I still haven’t had this intense of a cardio workout in a very long time.
So last night, I’m finishing up my second session at the gym. I’m on my last round on the treadmill (from my first few classes, there seems to be 3 rounds on treadmill, 3 rounds on the floor with weights/bands/bench/etc). I’m actually down to my last minute of the intense part of the workout. The instructor asks us all to do a sprint.
And so I start sprinting… and I really want to quit after the first 5 seconds.
I’m tired.
I’m sore.
I’m lacking energy.
But then the instructor says, “This is the most important minute of your workout. This is when you decide why you came here today and how hard you really want to work. What type of results do you want? C’mon. You now only have 30 more seconds. You can do anything for 30 more seconds!”
And so I run.
And when the walk recovery finally kicks in, I enjoy it thoroughly.
And 10 minutes later, after a cool down and stretch, I leave the gym feeling great…
totally tired…
totally sore…
totally spent energy-wise…
…but great.
I’ve got a ways to go for me to back to 100% fitness, but I like the direction I’m heading.
But this isn’t a fitness blog.
Sure, you can use that same principle to your workout, but what if we used it for our lives.
We have one more month left in 2011.
Yes, a lot of us began the year with resolutions. A lot of us broke those resolutions before January even ended.
But we have 31 more days left in the year. We have goals that we want to accomplish.
Why did you begin your year? What type of results do you want?
Make this month the most important month of the year. Let’s dig deep. Let’s stretch. It’ll be tough, but I imagine we’ll all enter 2012 feeling a lot better about where we are and where we are now able to head.
In 5…4…3…2…1…
Now GO!