I just came back from the gym after doing my back and biceps. I
slept a good much needed 11-hour after doing my legs the day prior and
only getting 5 hours of rest. I feel much better and so I decided to
workout early today (at least earlier than the usual 8 pm or 9pm) at 1
pm. When I was driving to the gym today, I thought of things that
motivates me to come back to the gym consistently every day for at
least 7-8 years now. I've taken some weeks off here and there but your
body needs those time off anyway to recuperate once in a while. The
reason that I go to the gym is not because of punishing myself or
torturing myself into reaching my fitness goals. I go to the gym
consistently because I just love working out and that's the main reason
why I never quit even on those days that I just have that energy.
I
think of working out as eating. A co-worker once told me that he never
worked out in his life because he's scared of the possibility that when
he gets older and stopped working out, his muscle will deflate or he
wouldn't look right. I responded to him by saying that, I think of
working out as eating regularly. We eat because it's necessary to
survive and we don't just one day stop eating because we lose hunger.
That's the same feeling that I get from working out. I workout and will
workout for the rest of my life because working out is part of who I am
and it will never just go away. I'm not one of those people who works
out for the absolute reason of losing weight then stops the minute that
they attain their goal. Although I have my own set of goals also, I
always aim on becoming better in every aspect whether to increase
strength of build bigger muscles.
The most important thing really
is making sacrifices but at the same time keeping a perfect balance
between letting loose and being strict. If I needed to go somewhere
that night so I can have fun with my friends, I'll go and workout right
away after work and make adjustments to my workout to make the best of
it and at the same time, simple enough so I can get out.
~ Dennis