Over the past eight months I have had many excuses pertaining to my inabillity to get to the gym and work out. My most recent excuses have been illness, dizziness, the relationship of the gym to school, staying up too late, etc. Today I returned to the gym. It's been one month since my last visit. As I went to check in, I forgot my number. When I took out my sheet that records dates, reps, times, etc., I realized I finally have the best excuse. When I work out regularly, I need to periodically change my routine, or so the experts say. Since I took this month off, my body (muscle) is not used to the routine, so today when I went in it was the same as changing my routine. Some people change their routines; I take a month off!
Today I went back to the interweb to find out what I could post about that would relate to sankalpa . "...Sankalpa has the potential to release tremendous power by clearly defining and focusing on a chosen goal." My chosen goal since May has truly been on being physically active. Since it's cold and miserable out, I've been being active inside instead of outside. December 6th (or something like that) was the last time I ventured outside for physical activity. I, however, have still been going to they gym and focusing on being physically fit (or at least burning enough calories to eat more food). Yesterday I received an early morning text from a friend in God's Country . President Obama was talking about "The President's Challenge" . Today (I tried yesterday and decided to put it off until today... forget out it... let it happen... put it aside... clear my mind of it... all probably sankalpa) I formed a group. The...
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