I guess I must believe it
You know how people say that exercise is good for you. It gives you an endorphine rush or an adrenline high. I really truely believe that they were lying. I mean, I've walked for exercise and all I felt at the end was hot, sweaty (if I was lucky) and generally tired.
Well, I don't know about the endorphine rush or the adrenline high, but I do believe it puts me in a better mood and it certainly reves me up. When I get done with working out and come in to work. I have so much more energy and I am so much nicery and friendly. (not that I wasn't nice or friendly before - it just took longer to get there). Maybe its because I am up at 5am and have those two hours to wake up and therefor, but the time I'm in the office, I have been awake for 3 hours. But I really do think I can attribute it to the exercising.
It was funny, I took Friday off and all Thursday morning, I worried at what I was going to do about my Friday workout. Was I going to get up early on Friday, exercise and then come home (remember, I live about 25 miles from my office and my gym is near the office). Seemed like a waste of gas to me. Finally at lunch I realized that my gym clothes were still in the car, so why don't I go work out after work. I felt so much happier about it. I really didn't want to get off track. And when I came home, I was going a mile a minute. I talked and talked and talked so much that brophyswiftus started laughing at me. It got to the point I worried if I was going to be able to go to sleep. When I finally allowed myself to shut down - I did sleep. THANK GOD!
The other thing I learned is I prefer to work out in the morning. I like the energy it gives me. But it has several other positivies:
1. I'm in the work area before there is traffic to worry about. When I get done with my workout, I am a mile from the office and the commute is easy.
2. Planet Fitness is more croweded in the evenings. Not to the point that there were you couldn't work out or that you had to wait, but there were moments when I thought I wasn't going to be able to do or complete the strength training work out.
3. I don't like the evening crowd. There were lots of body builders there. Not that I have ANYTHING against body builders, but they were rude. PF has a rule where you are not allowed to clank weights, make loud noises or basically be distracting to other patrons. I like that rule. It makes you focus on yourself and your workout. But those body builders did clank weights and make noise and grunted and all other kinds of things. They were warned several times and they didn't pay attention. They laughted it off. Finally, one of the trainers went over there and spoke to them and then hung around to make sure they did it right. Well, shortly after that, they all migrated to the weight machines and took them over. I was 15 minutes from ending my cardio and was worried I wouldn't be able to get on the machines. As it was, I had to go in a different order to complete it. One of them actually sat at the leg press machine and talked on his cellphone. Wasn't even working out during this time. When I got done with the machine I was on, I told the staff and they made him move. I mean, how rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I think I'll stick with my mornings and I am even tempted to add in another morning.
For those of you who know me - this is sooo different than I used to be. I never, never thought I would enjoy working out. Least of all worried what I would do if I couldn't work out as scheduled. I always looked for an excuse not to workout.
One of the funny things about my parent's visit - my Mom has also been working out more and she and I are both loving it. And when they got there on Friday afternoon, we spent an HOUR talking about our routines and the changes we felt. It was funny and wonderful!
Well, I don't know about the endorphine rush or the adrenline high, but I do believe it puts me in a better mood and it certainly reves me up. When I get done with working out and come in to work. I have so much more energy and I am so much nicery and friendly. (not that I wasn't nice or friendly before - it just took longer to get there). Maybe its because I am up at 5am and have those two hours to wake up and therefor, but the time I'm in the office, I have been awake for 3 hours. But I really do think I can attribute it to the exercising.
It was funny, I took Friday off and all Thursday morning, I worried at what I was going to do about my Friday workout. Was I going to get up early on Friday, exercise and then come home (remember, I live about 25 miles from my office and my gym is near the office). Seemed like a waste of gas to me. Finally at lunch I realized that my gym clothes were still in the car, so why don't I go work out after work. I felt so much happier about it. I really didn't want to get off track. And when I came home, I was going a mile a minute. I talked and talked and talked so much that brophyswiftus started laughing at me. It got to the point I worried if I was going to be able to go to sleep. When I finally allowed myself to shut down - I did sleep. THANK GOD!
The other thing I learned is I prefer to work out in the morning. I like the energy it gives me. But it has several other positivies:
1. I'm in the work area before there is traffic to worry about. When I get done with my workout, I am a mile from the office and the commute is easy.
2. Planet Fitness is more croweded in the evenings. Not to the point that there were you couldn't work out or that you had to wait, but there were moments when I thought I wasn't going to be able to do or complete the strength training work out.
3. I don't like the evening crowd. There were lots of body builders there. Not that I have ANYTHING against body builders, but they were rude. PF has a rule where you are not allowed to clank weights, make loud noises or basically be distracting to other patrons. I like that rule. It makes you focus on yourself and your workout. But those body builders did clank weights and make noise and grunted and all other kinds of things. They were warned several times and they didn't pay attention. They laughted it off. Finally, one of the trainers went over there and spoke to them and then hung around to make sure they did it right. Well, shortly after that, they all migrated to the weight machines and took them over. I was 15 minutes from ending my cardio and was worried I wouldn't be able to get on the machines. As it was, I had to go in a different order to complete it. One of them actually sat at the leg press machine and talked on his cellphone. Wasn't even working out during this time. When I got done with the machine I was on, I told the staff and they made him move. I mean, how rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I think I'll stick with my mornings and I am even tempted to add in another morning.
For those of you who know me - this is sooo different than I used to be. I never, never thought I would enjoy working out. Least of all worried what I would do if I couldn't work out as scheduled. I always looked for an excuse not to workout.
One of the funny things about my parent's visit - my Mom has also been working out more and she and I are both loving it. And when they got there on Friday afternoon, we spent an HOUR talking about our routines and the changes we felt. It was funny and wonderful!