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Exercise.
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Danger! Danger! Danger!
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Warning! Warning! Warning!
Earthquake! Floods! and Lightning!
I am writing about exercise today and if the thought of exercise leaves you petrified or absolutely bereft of all interest, better click on that X on the top right portion of your monitor.
What makes exercise somewhat perplexing is that it has to start with the mind not the body. First you think exercise, then you let your body follow your mind.
Yeah yeah, I know, dont think about it, "just do it" as that nice Nike ad goes. So why haven't you done your exercises lately? I know I am guilty of not exercising.
Tell you what, let's predict the future if we exercise conscientously. Here's a post i want to be able to do in the future:
"Hey Good Friends of mine, my exercise regimen is going along fine. As i told you before, exercise has almost NOTHING to do with your body and EVERYTHING to do with your mind. After that first post i did about exercise, here's what happened:
Sa umaga pagkagising, gapang ako mula sa kama. Kung minsan hinuhulog ko na lang katawan ko sa lapag. Mga alas 5:00 madilim pa. Ayaw kong mag-ehersiyo, ayaw ko, ayaw ko, ayaw ko!!! Nakupo! Kaydaming dahilan kung bakit dapat akong manatiling nakahiga. But I tell myself "Magtigil ka gunggong!!!". Hala. I wear my jogging pants, (running shorts pag summer), exercise shoes, (lahat ng damit pang ehersiyo na kung matalino ako ay naihanda ko na kagabi bago natulog). Sa sala kakalimutan ko lahat ng excuses ko at sisimulan ko ang exercises ko. I put in a tape -- either Rodney Yee's AM YOGA or ABS YOGA, or if I'm really energetic a tape that combines weight lifting with aerobics from THE FIRM or an old vintage Jane Fonda tape w/step aerobics. I just Nike do it.
I whine and complain in my head half the time while doing it. I groan. I yell at the teacher. I hate the men in it who look so damned good. I make up stories about how they always looked that good and they don't have to work and grunt and groan and sweat for it like me. I hate them. But I keep doing it. I notice how much my abs hurt when I do the abs exercises without breathing properly. I hate the lunges. The push-ups are extruciating. I wince when I do the gluts. It's NOT EASY. People who don't work out every day think people who work out every day have some magic recipe -- not really. It's always hard. We just know it's worth it.
Then I'm done and something weird happens ... actually it's been happening all along. I'm getting a rush of endorphins and I'm feeling really good. I'm also realizing that "Hell, if I can do this at 5:00 am, some of the stuff I was worried about at work isn't such a big deal." And it clicks, working out is NOT about my body, it's about my attitude. When I'm done working out, I enter a , "If I can do this -- I can do anything-mental state" --
HAHAHAHA. Are you still with me?
Seriously my friend - go for a walk. Today. Go for a walk tomorrow. Decide you'll go for a walk every day for the rest of your life. Start thinking seriously about putting exercise into your life. Start walking the stairs at work, in parking structures, at airports, everywhere you see stairs, THANK GOD for them.
Thats the future. (groan)
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:: Bing Saturday, November 09, 2002
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