Exercise needed.
Feb. 9th, 2012 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beth_leonardI'd been exercising really regularly until last week, attending Cross Fit classes 2x/week since October with only a few misses. The only class that works for my schedule is at 6:30am however, and that means Jon has to get the kids ready for school in the mornings I go. When he started working full-time, I stopped going to classes. It looks like I last attended January 27th.
I hadn't realized how much the exercise affected me in a positive way.
I don't enjoy exercising (in this format) but I love feeling in shape and the other emotional benefits of exercise, and Crossfit packs a whole lot of exercise into a small wall-clock time. It's the most efficient exercise I can get for my hour. It has only been 13 days since my last class, but the past week I've really noticed a much higher stress level in myself -- minor annoyances are causing a much higher level of emotional reaction from me than they should. I feel like I'm exploding on the inside all the time, barely keeping myself in check, ready to break out.
I have difficulty prioritizing exercise for exercise sake, especially without a class I'm paying to attend, but I absolutely need to do it. Today's WOD (workout of the day) is something I can do at home, so I think I should just go do it. Right after I start the dishwasher and take the trash back around. And blog. And call my mother. And stuff like that...
--Beth
Edit to add: Did the workout. 19mins 10 seconds. 4 rounds of: 10 pushups, 20 weighted overhead lunges, 30 situps.
I hadn't realized how much the exercise affected me in a positive way.
I don't enjoy exercising (in this format) but I love feeling in shape and the other emotional benefits of exercise, and Crossfit packs a whole lot of exercise into a small wall-clock time. It's the most efficient exercise I can get for my hour. It has only been 13 days since my last class, but the past week I've really noticed a much higher stress level in myself -- minor annoyances are causing a much higher level of emotional reaction from me than they should. I feel like I'm exploding on the inside all the time, barely keeping myself in check, ready to break out.
I have difficulty prioritizing exercise for exercise sake, especially without a class I'm paying to attend, but I absolutely need to do it. Today's WOD (workout of the day) is something I can do at home, so I think I should just go do it. Right after I start the dishwasher and take the trash back around. And blog. And call my mother. And stuff like that...
--Beth
Edit to add: Did the workout. 19mins 10 seconds. 4 rounds of: 10 pushups, 20 weighted overhead lunges, 30 situps.
