September 23, 2009
Holding My Own
I can't seem to get my life organized these days. We just have entirely too much going on around here. With after school activities four days a week, Saturday swim classes and enough grading to literally bury me for months, I am not managing well. Last night, I had every intention of getting in to train at the dojo and then Big I walked in the house wearing her muddy sneakers and wrecked the kitchen floor. I couldn't leave it; I have white carpet in the rest of the house. I had no choice but to mop and then my mop broke and I had to go get a new part to finish the job. By the time I was done, karate was starting. I had missed my chance.
Because I'm not finding much time for physical fitness or karate, I quit the gym yesterday. Well, I should say that I mailed my notice that I'm quitting and I'll probably have to reincarnate Johnny Cochran to get me out of my membership. I've heard they're a pain like that. Instead of paying all this money to go there, be harassed by trainers and have my kid get sick all the time from the Germ Zone, I went to Dick's, bought a step and decided I have enough equipment at home to do my workouts. And yesterday, they started.
I took Lil C on an hour long walk through my neighborhood and today, I'm breaking out my step and free weights. Lil C said she wants to work out with me. This will be much better than leaving her in the Kid Zone screaming for me. And when I have a few minutes, I can do something here instead of driving 15 minutes to get there. Plus, I'm saving some cash. When my work-outs get stale, I'm going to head over to this new personal training business and get a session or two to get some new ideas. I'm going to see how this works out. I'm hoping it does.
One area where I happen to be holding my own is over at BullsnBalls. I'm writing a fantasy football column over there and am having fun with it. I love fantasy football and am looking forward to doing nothing this weekend except watching every single game. As a writer over there, I have to make picks for college football. I'm not really knowledgeable about college football teams AT ALL. Mr. BBM was going to help me but he's been busy, so I've been picking them myself, based on "a feeling." Head over there to see how I'm doing. I'm pretty proud of myself.
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I hear ya on the overwhelmed by life issue…I feel like I’ve been drowning for five years now…someday I’ll learn at least how to float!
Good for you for fitting in the workouts at home!!!
The only thing more difficult than learning karate is learning to accept our limits.
I’ve always been a big fan of home gym working out. It helps me think. Of course it’s easier to slack off too, sometimes my workouts take about twice as long as they should. hahaha.
Without the distractions at the gym and being bothered by trainers trying to
reach their quotas, my workouts might actually go faster. Today’s went well.
Of course my family room looks like a gym right now, but the little one and
I actually had fun. I feel so good that I actually did something.
When my kids were small, I used to get frustrated that I couldn’t do what I wanted. I came to the conclusion that my wanting was what was messing me up. I was training pretty heavily in aikido at the time and I dropped it cold.
As they got older, I got my life back a bit at a time. I took up the practice of zhan zhuang, and the last few years, taijiquan.
If I had it to do all over again, I would do it all over again.
If you’re going to be working out at home I’d strongly recommend http://www.crossfit.com/. It has changed my life.
Also you might give http://fitness-solution.blogspot.com/ a look to get the general idea of efficient home workouts.
This gal is very fun and motivational to read http://theclothesmakethegirl.blogspot.com/ as is
http://www.byersgetsdiesel.com/ for the crossfit thing.
Good luck