Journal of Healthy Living

Almost Didn’t Go To The Gym Today…

I’ve been going to a Body Pump class at my local gym every Tuesday and Thursday for at least a month and it’s been great. As you know, today is Thursday and I almost didn’t make it today. In fact, I had a whole bunch of excuses lined up… here they are:

• My wife’s been a little sick lately and last night she was coughing and kicking and I didn’t get a good night’s sleep,
• I was going to meet my friends for lunch and the class really pushes into the lunch period,
• I was tired, see the first reason,
• It’s okay if I miss it.

Reason 1 is a pretty good reason and reason 2 is a so-so reason, reason 3 and 4 were just pile on reasons to validate my decision to not go. That was, until JD of Get Rich Slowly and Get Fit Slowly and asks me if the stay at home moms at the gym would miss him if he didn’t go today. I told him I was tired and that he was enabling me to sit at home and not work out. Then he said he was putting on his shorts and going to the gym. I put on my workout clothes and went to the gym.

Funny thing is, JD lives in Seattle and I live near Baltimore (that’s two different coasts). We don’t work out together. But that little chat threw all the reasons out the window and I headed over to the gym despite my sluggishness. Good for me!