This morning was day 2 of get my butt out of bed and work out in the mornings. It's been long enough and I am well (months...heh...*cough*) healed from my knee injury in the summer so I have no excuse not to, other than that my bed is really comfy and I like to sleep :). These things are still true, but I need this. With winter comes the stuck inside never see the sun blahs and workouts go a long way to help fight this. I also have a bit of a sneaky thing...I'm trying to organise the part of the basement where the elliptical is (we started moving it upstairs ages ago and then stopped...it's chaos). I can't ignore it if I'm down there all the time. I've already attacked it a bit last night and it looks a lot better...
Plus, I'm trying to organise my time schedules as next year will be far more busy, and I want to make sure I've got my exercise put in my daily schedule as a part of that. I'm even looking at trying to do meal planning to cut the stress. I too quickly put myself aside when I get busy. This is one way to make sure I put my needs up there with the rest of things in life. I know I deal with stress better when I workout too, so this can only be a good thing.
I can't really say getting up at 5:15 is a good thing, but the way I feel afterwards definitely is.I've got the odd random muscle aches that show me I've pushed myself a bit yesterday,and today I got howled at by t a cat on the bookshelf as I worked out on the elliptical. I'm even eating breakfast.
I know. Crazy.
I've been trying to find kick-ass music I haven't heard in ages to get me motivated while I workout. This morning was Ganga Giri - an electronic group that uses digitally modified didgeridoo. I saw them live last summer at Shambhala...and their music is great. It's my workout track of the week. I couldn't find a video, but because the Internet is so great, here's a clip from that actual show.
Hope you all have a fantastic day. I have another nail biting adrenaline pumped day full of data entry ahead of me.
Woo.
5 comments:
what time do you go to bed that allows you to function at 515 in the morning???
Oh...10 ish.
Heh..and part of the charm of working out then is mentally, I can't quite dislike it as I"m not entirely awake for all of it :)
hmmmm. I'm a 8.5 hours of sleep a night woman myself, and getting up in the morning is bad enough without adding exercise to the list! I am thinking about starting running in the evening though..*sigh* "wherefore art thou, metabolism????"
I find the more you do the more energy you have. It's crazy. I'm dog tired in themornings no matter when I get up, so once I have it in my head that I'm getting up it's not so bad.
I do reserve the right to sleep into rediculous o'clock on saturdays though or have weekend naps when I need it. It charges up my batteries again. Sundays too if I can get away with it...
Running outside is nice...I wish I still had that option. Inside workouts can get pretty boring sometimes.
Why do you get up so late? ;)
Grapecat: I go to bed at 8:30 so I can get up at 4:30 to work out before work. (I'm get to the office between 6:30 and 6:45.)
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