Does exercise ever make you examine your life's choices?
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As a long, long distance cyclist ... yes, there are moments where I'm wondering what in the world I'm doing.
Those moments usually occur about 2 am on some dark and lonely road when my brain is telling me that sensible people are at home sleeping in warm comfortable beds at that hour.4 -
yep, when the husband is still in bed on a weekend and i'm getting up to have breakfast ahead of my long run...
but once i'm done, i'm always happy with my choice!3 -
FOR SURE!, minus 30, swirling winds, cannot see anything, feel anything, and I am snowshoeing in the middle of nowhere! Those are THE BEST HIGHS! I am the only one outside, and everyone is on the couch!, gotta love it!4
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yup - typically around mile 20 of a marathon or similar on an ironman or half-iron...typically i'm like I'm NEVER doing this again...then sure as heck, i sign up for another one2
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Usually when I feel like that, thinking about when I couldn't do the workout physically puts me in the right mental place to get it done.
If that doesn't work, thinking about WHY I'm doing it helps (usually a race looming in the distance).3 -
Yep.
"No one will care or even know if I don’t make it to the top." Not true. The most important person will know; you.6 -
Yep... I planned on no more races till March 2018 and then I open an email a week ago and it says 'Join the 36.2 Mile Challenge'. It includes a 10 miler Nov 18, so I have to do it (I already run the 2 half marathon to meet the 3 race requirement).
For the life of me, challenging my self is not ever going to end as long as I can still walk/run. I don't even have to do these things to myself, I just do. I become stronger in the end for doing it, and I end up having fun too, I guess that is why I keep doing it.4 -
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I've had those days. When the thoughts happen mid-activity I usually give myself permission to go as easy as I want to go. It usually only lasts for a minute before I can get back on pace.
Oddly enough, it's those days that I tend to have my best performances. Just shows that getting out the door is most of the battle.2 -
I hope you ran Strava. If only for bragging rights.
But...seriously...I wouldn't do it if it damaged my bike lol. Precious baby that it is, if it got damaged I'd not be able to ride...and THAT, my friend, is what would give me my bottom line.1 -
Oh, I thought you were going to ask something profound. I've already lived one life as a person who did not care to show any concern for his own well-being. That life has no appeal to me, and my hardest exercise, which is a couple of orders of magnitude less difficult than your light days, has certainly not tinted my recollection of it with roses.5
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I've had those days. When the thoughts happen mid-activity I usually give myself permission to go as easy as I want to go. It usually only lasts for a minute before I can get back on pace.
Oddly enough, it's those days that I tend to have my best performances. Just shows that getting out the door is most of the battle.
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No. Life makes me question my life choices.
But to your question... the handful of times in my life where I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I was meant to be in that exact place at that exact time... I was on my bike.
The worst it's ever been for me were the 2 times I've bonked and during a couple of disastrous races... but they make me think more about how I ended up in that situation rather than question if I should be doing something entirely different.2 -
Every time I'm standing at the start line for a race I'm thinking to myself, why the hell am I doing this? And every time I cross the finish line, I mutter to myself I'm never going to do that again. I then go home, put my results into my nerdy race spreadsheet and go online and see what races are coming up that I might like to run.3
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i wouldn't say i examine them. but i do find them sort of a boggle sometimes.
the biking thing has been going on since idk when, so that one isn't a thing. but the 'srsly? you spend that much time in the gym?' is more new.
i don't question it though. i'm just really amazed now and then that that's me.1 -
It's kind of the reverse for me.
When I run up and down a hill, hike/power walk for many miles without getting sore or tired, push heavy weights or just wanting to workout and move around instead of sitting around eating and snacking like I did in the past, I'm always asking myself "who is this woman"? I actually enjoy and want to exercise.
I have completely transformed my lifestyle and my body, but I still don't know how I got here. I've never been athletic or over active in my entire life...but I love it!5 -
It does, every time I crash through a face-level banana spider web when I go mountain biking at night.4
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Yeah I feel this way, and sometimes I even tell myself yeah im not going to work out tonight, or take the dog for a 4 mile walk, Ill only go around the block, but I feel almost guilty if I dont? Im not sure if thats the right word because I take rest days and I dont over exercise or anything like that. I feel like im short changing myself almost so I always wind up doing it and then I feel better and I've never regretted going out and getting it done. But to be honest when Im not working, doing school work or working out I am a complete couch potato and i'm fine with that.
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Kind of the opposite. As I hit a wall and coax my body in to doing more than it has in decades, I ask myself why I didn't start far, far sooner.3
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I just recently became a stay at home mom since March. Until then, I worked 40 hours a week for 16 years. I missed my kids and I felt I had no time for anything. I was living a robot life in a rush. I have one child in school and the other is 2. My husband shift works so he’s not even home a lot of evenings. While I LOVE having my toddler at my hip 24/7 and being able to spend more time with my son after school, I was starting to feel like I had no time for myself like I was used to having when I worked. I joined a gym 3 weeks ago and have gone about 3 times a week (when my husband can watch the kids) and I have to say it’s liberating! I focus on ONLY myself during that time. I feel so empowered like I can do anything during that time. It’s confirmed every time I’m at the gym that I did the right thing not only for my physical health, but my mental health too. I got some of the independence back that I was so used to before. I feel like I have the best of both worlds now and I know my recent life choices were the right ones to make.3
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