Occasionally carrying out a fitness program or workout schedule isn’t quite as do-able as the folks writing the advice make it sound. I suppose the concept is to tell you what you should be doing to attain your fitness or weight-loss targets, but you know at times life gets a bit in the way of all these plans, and there’s just no way you can follow your planned program.
I know, since I am in exactly that position myself right now, and it’s extremely easy to get derailed or discouraged and start to wonder if it’s all only a bit too much to keep up in the face of uncontrollable obstacles.
My difficulty is that the local pool has closed for 6 weeks, and that’s quite a blow to a training program designed to take me into the World Top Ten Swimming Masters again this year, so I’ve tried to find elsewhere to get in the necessary daily workout routine, but it seems just about everywhere I turn, I find the same refurbishing going on and pools closing all over the place; so what do we do? Well the point of all this personal story things is to say, “yes we have a real problem in sticking with the training plan but we can, and need to, adapt just to keep the ball rolling to our benefit.”. The last thing we would like to do is give up or say, “let’s forget the whole thing.”.
I suppose I sound repetitive, as I say this in several articles, but you need to, “keep on keeping on”. That is the key to maintaining weight loss or maintaining fitness. It’s very easy to get frustrated by the events and obstacles which life puts in the way, however the “can’t beat me” kind of feeling could be nurtured by finding an alternative to your workout, and I bet that the majority of us have some aspect of our program which we have been intending to work on, but have been too tied up in the regular main activity to concentrate on.
For instance, this is what I’ve done to fight the lack of pool time. I am doing a few sit-ups, heaven knows I’ve been avoiding that pleasure for a long time now, and I am getting in some push-ups and a little work on the arms with a few light weights, or if you have no weights, try 2 milk container jugs (the ones with the handles) full of water, as barbells. Sure all of us know that one, but you get the idea of what I’m saying, improvise, you do not need to have all of the gear simply to keep a maintenance level of fitness and you may also do all this stuff if you are on the road and in a hotel with no weight room.
Now one of the things you don’t hear a lot from the pundits pushing their fitness or weight-loss programs is how they are doing and, if we do, it’s all upbeat and rah-rah. Well allow me to inform you, I went quite some distance to locate a pool that was open, because it had been closed to two weeks without any swim workout, and boy, oh boy did I feel pretty bad! Arms of lead and legs which reconfirmed to me that if you don’t have those legs in shape, you are “cooked”. This is the other area I am always harping on about, but you realize it’s true that the legs are the key to core strength and if we do not get them in shape, it really does not matter how good the rest of the body is, because the leg fatigue will suck all the power from the engine.
So I struggled through my session and at the end, it was just a little better, but knowing I had at least put in a maintenance type session made me feel better and back on track, if not improving at least holding steady and not rolling backwards and that is my point. No matter what is temporarily disrupting your plans or throwing you off your routine, work around it by adapting and using inventive thinking to prevent you from slipping backwards. Just like I’ve said in my articles previously, the key phrase is, “keep on keeping on!” So keep on and do not give up!
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