No matter how hard I try to lead a positive life and not let
the little things get me down I am no stranger to a bad day here and there. Yes
I know, i am in fact human! Lol.
We have all been in
the situation where certain things are not going right for us at work or home
and no matter how hard we try and we let our emotions get the better of us.
This can result in emotional eating (for some gorging) or skipping gym sessions
in order to curl up on the lounge and feel sorry for ourselves instead. We
start to lose any mental strength built in the gym and start making excuses for
our poor habits e.g. “Its’ been a bad day I think I will skip the gym tonight
and go home and open up that tub of ice-cream”. “Ok so you may feel better for
all of about 5-10 mins (or however long it takes to hoe into the tub) but then
comes the aftermath and this is where a fine line is drawn.
People either feel guilty about ruining all their hard work
and dieting over one bad day and vow tomorrow they will get right back where
they left off. This is fine-a minor slip up (again we are all only human).
HOWEVER there is the other side of the line that can lead to disaster. This is
where people justify their actions, have another bad day, skip the gym again
and find themselves back on the lounge with that same tub of ice-cream.
Eventually they start continually justifying their behaviour by saying well
I’ve ruined all my hard work now so might as well give up. WRONG WRONG WRONG!!
I’m going to tell you a little secret that I have learned
along the way in my “relationship” with the gym. The gym doesn’t care for your
excuses and it doesn’t care if you have had a bad day, the weights don’t care
and the treadmill doesn’t care and guess what? Emotion can be just as great a
fuel in the gym as any pre-workout meal/supplement.
Take your anger, take your stress, take your sadness and let
it FUEL you instead of defeating you. Emotions are the biggest drivers because
while we can’t choose how we feel we CAN choose how we re-act and the actions
we take after feeling those feelings.
Some of my best workouts have come after the days where I
have had absolutely nothing go right and would much rather stay tucked up in
bed at 5am then get up and hit the gym. But instead of giving up and letting my
emotions take hold and defeat me, I get up anyway. I always say to myself “Just
go and if you don’t feel better then you can come home and curl up back in bed
later.” Guess how many times I have ended up back in bed? NONE- Why? Because
once I get to the gym (who as I mentioned doesn’t care about my problems) I
have two options and that is either use those feelings as FUEL, train hard and
feel better or let the feelings defeat me and FAIL, and as we know FAILURE is just
not an option for me and nor should it be for you.
So next time you are having a bad day or bad week or even
what may seem sometimes like a bad life STOP and give yourself the option of
controlling your reaction to your feelings or letting your feelings control you
and leading you straight to that tub of ice-cream.
As always I can guarantee if you choose not to let your
feelings defeat you and hit the gym anyway then you WON’T regret that workout.
In fact I can guarantee you will not only feel better but you will have just
increased your mental strength by taking control of your actions J
So TAKE CONTROL, think POSITIVE and as always eat CLEAN,
train MEAN and live LEAN!
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