Christmas Workout Cheer

Current Tunes: Anthrax – A.I.R.

Man I feel exhausted., but in a good way. Working out this morning wasn’t a torture session this morning, it actually felt good.

Right as soon as I got done running, I looked up at the TV in the gym & on ESPN they were doing a short feature on Alabama football and they’re upcoming BCS championship game against Texas. A lot of the conversation centered around Alabama being such a favorite in this game, and whether or not all the pundits saying they were so favored would go to their heads. I was encouraged to hear not only Saban saying they’re not listening to that talk, but that the key leaders on both side of the ball weren’t buying eht hype either. That’s the best Christmas present I could get this year: seeing the Tide beat the pants off of Texas and take back the crown for the best football program in college football!

Watching the segment had greater benefit for me though. Seeing all the clips they showed of Alabama’s victories was pretty inspiring for me at that moment. Thinking about how for the decade or so before Saban got there we had to wallow in mediocrity. Controversial, backstabbing coaches and heavy-handed sanctions kept us down to some degree, but whatever adversity held the program back, UA is back on top again.

I thought about all the hard work those kids have gone through this season to get to where they are, and it made me think that I too could work that hard and win my own championship. I could finally loose the weight I needed to loose and could not just feel healthy but be healthy again.

That’s one especially important key to a long, drawn out process like this. You have to constantly find things or ideas to keep motivating you, to keep pushing you along when things feel monotonous or like they’re in a standstill. I realized today too a difference between this attempt at weight loss and times before. Times before I would tell myself how easy it was going to be, and that’s not true at all. Weight loss is hard to do, but nothing truly worthwhile is easy, right?

Happy Holidays to everyone, and bonus points to you for reading my humble blog on Christmas.