I know I’ve already covered that I completed my goal for my 2020 workouts, but I think hitting that goal was a bigger deal than it normally is. In 2020, I had to find a way to motivate myself to do workouts at home. I know I don’t like working out at home. I know that it’s easy to slack off and not do what I know I should be doing. But somehow, I found a way to make it work and I got through 2020 and completed 204 workouts!
Originally, my plan for this past week was to test out doing my workouts early to see what I can do when I have work in the mornings. Unfortunately, that didn’t end up happening. I didn’t really sleep in, but I wasn’t up and ready to go early enough to test that out. I know that this week, that means I will have to either get up super early to test things out or I’ll have to do my workouts after work. But I’m ok with that plan for now since I’m doing the workouts on my own. When I will have to work around a workout schedule, then I’ll have to think about things more.
Last week’s workouts were a slightly different schedule than normal. Because it’s a tradition for me to work out on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, I wanted to keep that up. So I worked out on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Doing 3 days in a row is tough, even when they are workouts at home and I know they aren’t as hard as workouts in the studio. But it was worth having something be tough for me to keep up a tradition that I’ve had for so long.
I tried to do my best with every workout that I had, but as it’s been for a while now, it’s also hard to motivate myself as much as I wish I could. I did try to go a bit heavier with my weights, but I couldn’t do it. And I know the weights that I’m using are lower than I normally do. I want to get back to where I was in March, but it’s hard when it feels so far away. That’s something I want to work on for this year.
2020 was over 75% home workouts. I don’t know if 2021 will be the same way, but I’m trying to be hopeful that it won’t be. Even if the studios can’t open until the fall, there are outdoor workouts that I could do. I’m just waiting for things to be a bit better here before I do them. I might wait until I’m vaccinated to be extra safe. But I’m hoping that I’ll be vaccinated no later than the summer. So if that’s how it goes, then maybe only 50% of my workouts will have to be at home by myself.
I have tried for so long to figure out what will get me going with my home workouts, but I’ve been more and more accepting of the idea that maybe it just won’t connect with me. If home workouts were easy for me, I would have done them way before the pandemic. There’s a reason I connected with Orangetheory and there’s nothing wrong with me needing that environment to do my best. It’s an unfortunate reality for me right now, but I think it’s just the way it is.
But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up. I’m still planning on doing 4 workouts a week at home for now. I’m still going to try and hope that something clicks with me. I will still try to improve and do better. And I’ve already started off this year with 2 workouts (on Friday and Saturday), so that’s a great start! I’m just going to keep going and be excited that every week of home workouts brings me a week closer to workouts back in the studio.
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