Workout Journal

Today was one of the hardest days I’ve ever procrastinated working out. Starting from this morning, but really yesterday, I did not want to workout. So I spent the day finding every excuse and every activity possible that would prevent me from working out.

I spent my morning weeding, from 8:30 - 9:30 am. Then I made three bowls of berries, cocoa, nuts, and cinnamon. I watched some Tour de France. Once the tour ended, I actually watched a UFC fight, something I never normally do during the day. Then I started working on building a shoe rack while I waited for an electrician to come give me an estimate for some work I need done.

He never showed, so at noon I needed to figure out what else I could do. I returned my neighbors ladder and loppers, and chatted him up for a little bit. When I got back, I watered the garden beds and flower beds, and did some minor cleaning and weeding in the backyard. I still didn’t want to workout, so I made lunch.

Then I took my dog for a short walk (it was 100 degrees outside) and then drove to the store to pick up a poster we had framed and then grocery shop.

When I got home, I still didn’t want to workout, so I started working on the shoe rack again. But when it didn’t come together I grew frustrated and threw my hands up in the air and decided it was need to wait for another day. By this time it was close to 4 pm, still no workout and my girlfriend would be coming home soon.

I finally forced myself into the garage (my gym) to start. But instead of starting, I spent the first 10 minutes of my workout typing this up.

The silly part is I know that if I just did my workout first thing in the morning, the first time I told myself I didn’t want to do it, that I’d be done by now, and my day would’ve went a lot smoother. Instead of thinking of things to do to procrastinate my workout, I could’ve focused on doing things I wanted. But my brain was clouded with procastination.

The other silly part though is that although 10 hours later I can say I saw this coming, this morning I thought I’d be able to navigate it. Despite having this same experience numerous times in my life.

But, what can we do? Move on and try to improve. Which means, finally starting my workout. Cheers.