Making Time to Sweat

I am always jealous of those who like to workout.  Those who enjoy a good run and make it a priority.  I am always baffled by those who pack gym clothes and actually work out on vacations.  As I come to the end of two weeks of being back to the gym I am finally realizing how fast things can become a routine if you make time.

At the beginning of last week I started working out with my colleague TG.  We first set a goal of going on Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch to ease our way back into the working out and to make use of the gym we have access to at work.  Ok to be honest  TG. was easing back in, for me it was a fresh start. 

I have a habit of jumping on the fitness bandwagon.  I try something, I go all out.......for a few weeks and then I realize it's cutting into the time I could spend doing anything else and I quit.  Those who know me, or have joined a class or sport with me are nodding their head right now and agreeing that indeed I am a serial fitness quitter.   A funny thing happened last week though....I liked the gym.  I found myself liking being there, and loving the feeling I had after the workout that would keep me on an endorphin high for the rest of the afternoon.    I was finding that instead of dreading "having" to work out after work or "having" to be somewhere at a certain time after I worked hard all day, I was looking forward to our gym lunch dates.

Working out at lunch almost mentally reset me each day.  I felt fresh, alert, positive, and focused after lunch (now I only have to work on feeling like that in the morning!)  Thursday morning I was grumpy, and starting up the climb to borderline bitchy even, but off we went to the gym and I was able to sweat out all the frustration that was building up.

I think TG and I have an interesting gym dynamic.  We first do our cardio and we don't speak.  I know some people like to have work out buddies so they can visit or catch up.  But, we honestly put our earphones on as soon as we come out of the change rooms and kind of have our own quiet time.   We have even developed a way of communicating just by looks and expressions so we can have a full conversation about things going on around us without even taking our earphones out. 

Then we move to the weights portion of our workout on which ever body part that doesn't hurt the worst.  During this part we laugh alot.  I think we get a full ab workout just from laughing.  Sometimes there is more swearing (me) than laughing (TG) but either way we feel the burn.

Since our first "vow" to go Tuesday and Thursday at lunch, that turned into Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday .....and we have a date for tomorrow again.

I started to realize that I can make time for a work out- it just has to be on MY time and my time seems to be lunch!  Right now my favorite time of the day is 11:30-12:30  ~ so who knows maybe if this feeling lasts maybe I will be packing work out clothes on my next vacation........nah, let's not talk crazy!