#Gym Stats!
It was another push day and I came through just fine, no matter how it felt at certain moments. Working out has taught me how often I let how I feel at a current moment control that moment.
Between that and mindfulness, I’ve learned that I can step back and take stock independent of how I feel.
The result is progress on my goals. There’s a saying stenciled on the wall of this gym here. “The key to success is consistency to purpose.”
@NiveusLepus You inspire me! 129 minutes - wow! Is that daily or do you have off/on days?❤️💪❤️
@JGSchaeffer Six days a week. I take Sundays off.
I also do a half hour of warm up in the morning, just get going calisthenics. 3 minutes of plank, 100 leg lifts, things like that.
I spent a long time neglecting the health of this body, but over the last ten years, I’ve come to take better care of it.
I’m a long distance thru hiker, and I get so much from the work, even if some days its hard.
@NiveusLepus @JGSchaeffer Wow! That's awesome!
@TrueBloodNet @NiveusLepus Wow. Yes that is amazing. I’m working towards consistency and making exercise the centre of my gravity again. It’s not easy after decades of intense computer-focused work at all hours. I’m 54 now. Are you in your 50s too?
@JGSchaeffer @NiveusLepus I'm in my retirement years. :) Late 60s.
@TrueBloodNet @JGSchaeffer I was visiting my parents and at the gym down there *yay franchises* in 2019, doing my run, and this little old lady in workout clothes came walking in.
She had to be pushing 70 if not a little more. There were 20 something’s all over lifting heavy weights and what not.
Out of nowhere, grandma started just owning it on the weights, then half an hour later shes _running_ on the treadmill while the young kids were astounded.
Define: Life goals.