Going to the gym consistently can be difficult. You have to find ways to make it either fun or find ways to do different things. If you go and you do the same thing every day and there’s no real purpose behind other than simply staying in somewhat decent shape, you get burned out and bored!! This has happened to me more times than I care to mention! I refuse to buy bigger pants so when my current size begins to be uncomfortable, I usually start to do something. Whether it’s do something around the house or sign up for the gym. Last August or September some friends from work started playing racquetball. Right around this time I was needing to do something about the shrinking pants so I decide to sign up for the gym once again. I end up playing racquetball 3 or 4 times a week and doing a few minutes of lifting weights before everyone else gets there. I loved it! Not only am I getting some pretty good exercise I’m also improving in a game that gets quite competitive! And I love competition!! I continue to follow this routine for close to 6 months. Right around the time February comes around my racquetball friends are not able to make it out as often and I’m starting to find myself with not much to do. So I decide to spend the majority of my time away from the courts. Go back to lifting weights for longer amounts of time and trying to do a few different cardio things (rowing, elliptical, and even a little time on the treadmill). Doesn’t last long before I decide to be done with the cardio stuff and I can sense that I’m not going to make it much longer lifting weights. I was just getting burned out!!! No competition, no purpose other than to improve the body which is a worth thing but can get boring! During all of this I have been working on Jess to sign up but so far no luck. She’s making me feel if she’s going to do anything it will be in the house. One Saturday we’re spending time in Alpharetta at one of the parks when I ask if she would like to go do a tour of the gym, just to see what it looks like. By the end of the tour I had succeeded in getting her to sign up. That was close to 3 months ago and we’re still going strong! It was like a huge boost for me in getting my motivation and excitement back. I’m back to looking forward to 11am and I’m not spending my time sitting around not wanting to do anything else. It’s literally like a date every afternoon! We even go on Saturdays! I love it. I love the time I get to spend with Jess and I love that I’m not feeling as lazy! I’d encourage anyone to do the same thing! Find a way to exercise to together. The benefit of the gym is they have the kids club so for $10 a month they watch your kids. Not sure how else you could do something like this without someone watching your kids. I think this is the way that you can make this sort of thing a lifestyle. I’ve been watching one of our families at church do the same thing for quite some time and I was always hoping that could be us. Now it is and I couldn’t be happier about it!!
Anyway, there ya go!! First post from the Bettes’ in months!!!!
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Miland and I have been biking together, sometimes we even take the kids, Emma can do about 5 miles now and we pull Mia in the bike trailer. It is alot of fun. We have a nice bike trail near our house, I have worked my way up to an 11 mile ride in about an hour. I am still working on going farther. I have lost 34 lbs and am excited to loose the rest of the weight I need to. Good job you two!
Dan and I LOVE racquetball. In fact, we used to play religiously at BYU 3 days a week. Dan taught me to play and then we'd go at it...way too competitively. Recently when we've tried to pick it up again, I stink and it's frustrating. Oh well. Love it anyway.
Our gym does the babysitting thing too (complimentary even) but my youngest never wants to go in. Hates it in fact. One day it'll work. :)
that's next. teach Jess how to play RB! Maybe on Saturday's we can start?? We used to play tennis so racquetball in my opinion should be easier.
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