Moving Monday 9/10/12: A for Effort

I have a bad habit of over confidence. I start out my workout feeling like an Olympic body builder and often have to swallow my pride and downgrade to a workout that's slightly more realistic (wimpy).

Today was one of those days. I planned my workout based off of a crossfit workout posted on Facebook that looked like this:


I knew I couldn't do those weights, so I adapted it a little to match my abilities (the super strong abilities in my head, that is). 

I made it two rounds before realizing there was NO. WAY. I felt totally defeated. But then, I thought of you all. 

I decided that instead of giving up, I'd put my ego and excuses aside and scale down. I traded handstand push-ups for regular push-ups, then girl push ups in rounds 4-7. I traded 80 lb dead lifts to single leg dumbbell dead lifts and finally to 25 pound lunges, and pull-ups for situps.

It took me 35 mins with all the changes and breaks, but what's important is that I finished. I haven't been so proud of a mediocre workout in a long time. Persistence and effort will always count for something. 

So, if all you can do right now is 7 rounds of 7 steps, go do that...because we've all seen those memes that say "It doesn't matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch"!

With sweat, 

Kellie