Strength Training

The difference between can and cannot are only three letters (a quote I read online from Remez Sasson)!  These three letters can change the direction in which we go.  A positive attitude brings strength, initiative, and energy.  To think negatively is like taking a weakening drug (also from  Sasson).  My friends, I am no longer on the drug called negativity.  In order to succeed in this program I must stay positive.  This morning I did not allow the fact that I was up with a sore neck stand in my way.  I always have my workout clothes at the foot of my bed.  This was advice my mother in law gave me when she power-walked every morning with a friend at 5AM for over 25 years. The only reason she stopped was due to her dear friend's death from breast cancer, and she found that it was very hard for her to walk alone.  Can you imagine the friendship they shared.  My mother-in law is 85 years old and is still gardening and very active.  She looks great! 

I have also notice that my workout clothes are like a uniform for me now.  They go on everyday.  It's nice when you don't have to lay on the bed, hold your breath, squeeze everything in, slowly working the zipper up, hoping you don't tear off some skin along the way.  Then to look in the mirror, after what seems almost like a workout, and you see a what they call a big muffen top.  Then you franticly hunt for something to cover that up.  I promise myself that no more days like this will I ever see.  Now that's positive thinking!  Time to maybe get a new pair of jeans so that I can get out of these workout clothes. I am sure they will be smaller. 

We did strength training today.  Love it.  It makes me feel stronger!  There were only four of my teammates here today, but it seems like fourteen because we all are getting stronger.  You can see it in all of us.  I sense a lot of positive energy.  I am working out twice a day now,  and everyone's goal is to bump up the intensity for a great week.  I am headed to aquatic class tonight.  I have to get a little more cardio in today.  I continue to write each day to hold myself accountable to ME, to you and anyone reading I might help along the way.  I am so proud to be working out everyday.  This is becoming a habit.  As a matter of fact, I can't imagine not working out.  Yes, I said it......



A few other quotes I like:


Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.  ~Francesca Reigler

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.  ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"