Sometimes I just don't want to train...

Sometimes I don’t want to train.  Totally hard to believe I know… NOT!  As much as I’d like to believe otherwise and the way people make me feel sometimes, I’m not Wonder Woman.  I don’t make perfect nutrition and training every day, in fact, I’d be lucky to have perfect nutrition and training two or three times a week!  It’s about consistency and not blowing everything out of proportion.  Anyway, the training thing, yeah.  I used every excuse under the sun.  I’m tired, I didn’t sleep last night, I started work at 5am, I forgot my gym towel, I forgot my hair tie, I should listen to my body and get to bed early... I even asked a mate to give me an excuse not to go.  I mean seriously?! Clearly I was dreading it!  Urgh!  I have been a bit of an emotional mess this week, just all over the place, busy and stressed.  I’ve binged, and I’ve trained, I’ve been a total bitch and I’ve been scared and vulnerable, old troubles and new ones.  Regardless, even though I was in the foulest mood possible, I went to the gym with my hair down and no towel.  It was by no means a gut buster of a session, in fact it was downright LAME by my personal standards!  But I went and did an hour of light cardio and stretch – 445 calories burned.  And guess what?  I came out feeling a lot happier and calmer and just generally really good about myself.  Exercise definitely is the best stress reliever going around!  Moral of the story?  The only workout you’ll regret is the one that never happened! 

Liz Xox

After the training session...