Usually, it’s an excuse. I think I’ve heard them all. Actually, I’ve used a few of them myself. Any of these sound familiar?
- I’d be better off getting an extra hour of sleep. I’ll do extra, tomorrow.
- I’m already overweight, nothing’s going to fix me, now.
- Doctor said I was pre-diabetic. I don’t think exercise and diet are going to help.
- I’ve never been in a gym, I’m afraid people will mock me.
Of course there’s 100 more, but you get the picture. Most of us are like water; we’re happy to take the path of least resistance. And, I’m with you. A lot of times, it’s easier to excuse our way out of doing something challenging. Don’t! Let me help motivate you.
Today, I met Jeanette Warner. I’ve seen her in the gym, when our times must have overlapped. She works out hard! Cable machines, free weights, resistance machines – you name it she does it. And then something caught my eye. She didn’t have a right hand! What?
Today, I watched her doing dumbbell flies and pull overs like me? I drummed up the nerve to ask her, “What gives? I’m blown away.” I told her I write a blog about my fitness journey after sixty and wondered if she wouldn’t mind me featuring her. She said, “Hey, that’s cool, I just turned 60, too.”
I asked if she’d had an accident and Jeanette told me she’d been born without a hand. Nothing was holding this woman back! She, if anybody, had every right to throw every excuse in the book at me, but here she was, working out with free weights. I took these pictures and then thought, “She doesn’t have to say another word. This woman is my new hero.” That’s when she got in the last word. “I live every day as though it were a gift.” Pure magic. That’s all I could say. Every excuse is now out the window. What’s stopping you?
I put my phone back down and finished my workout. I was pumped – wow!
- First Combo Routine x3 sets: bent over barbell rows, wide grip lat pull downs, seated cable rows, planks.
- Second Combo Routine x3 sets: single dumbbell rows, bent over dumbbell lat pulls, supermans, barbell curls, crunches.
- Third Combo Routine x3 sets: ez curl bar curls, hammer curls, dumbbell isolation curls, Russian twists.