Some days you aren’t going to have a great workout. My leg workout was mentally hard and not as strong as usual.
The last few days have been stressful and it all caught up with me this morning during my leg workout. I’m not going into the details, but some highlights are Mommy Guilt in full force this morning taking my sweet boy back to preschool after two weeks of being gone, TOM, a family member is seriously ill, and a group of my girls are coming to my house for Phat Camp 07 this weekend! Anyway, everything all compounded to a crap leg day.
My trainer and I were talking about it. He says I’m too hard on myself. My squats were way off, mentally I was struggling, and my body was giving out before my legs were. It made me mad because normally I can “snap” into my moves. Today I just couldn’t push everything out of my head.
What I came to realize is that all workouts are not created equal. There are going to be days you just have to get it done the best you can. Today I didn’t have the strength I normally do, but my body felt the workout nonetheless. That’s about all you can ask for. I vowed to judge today’s success by this standard: I showed up when I didn’t want to, I pressed as hard as I could, and I didn’t make excuses. I even made a note in my journal “mentally checking out” on one of my sets so that I knew why the week looked funny.
That’s how you know you are making progress. It’s not always seeing bigger weights, less numbers on the scale, or cals ticking off the heart rate monitor. Some days the wins are showing up and getting it done.