This weekend was really busy!  On Saturday I did yard work for about 2.5 hours (some mowing and some beds upkeep).  Then on Sunday we were at a bridal show as vendors.  Bridal shows are a lot of fun but they are a lot of work.  We had special circumstances which required us to show up at midnight to get set up and then we were back at 9:15 to put the final touches on everything.

Needless to say we were pooped – dog tired!  This morning I could not believe how tired I still felt.  Chris, who had been busy on Saturday also was with us at the show and was totally beat himself.

So the prospect of doing P90X was a bit overwhelming.

Perhaps you’ve been at this point.  Tired from whatever came up in your life and thinking ‘what’s the harm in skipping this one workout?’  But my approach is that unless you are running a fever or you are injured, you do the exercise.  Good habits like exercising are delicate things.  It’s hard to get into good habits and easy to get out.  Skipping a day just because you are tired is about more than missing just one workout.  It’s an excuse which, if allowed to stand, starts permeating your mind in the future.  Then the next time you are tired it seems OK to give yourself a pass.  And after that, it’s just anytime you aren’t totally up for the workout.  Soon you’ve given up.

But I can make modifications.  Today we were supposed to do the Back & Biceps workout but we decided instead to do the P90X One on One Core Medicine Ball workout.  That’s about 30 minutes of heart pumping, sweat inducing core moves.  While we knew it would be tough, the idea of taking off 30 minutes from a workout (Back & Biceps takes an hour) was more attractive.

After we got done, we felt so much better that we went onto do our own bicep routine.  So in the end, we didn’t take a shortcut.  We actually did almost an hour of exercise.

And that’s my other point.  Once you get started you generally feel much better.  So the next time you feel too tired to exercise, pick a workout that’s shorter and perhaps easier.  Commit to doing that and you’ll feel better physically and mentally.

I guarantee it!