🧘🏼‍♂️🤾🏻‍♀️Getting Sweaty Again: The 3rd Circuit 🚴🏼‍♂️🏋🏼‍♀️

[HoneyMeadows]

So it turns out to get me to workout in the evening Lit has to go down and as I'm impatient I didn't wait to see how long it went

Got up and worked out again this morning. Hope to do some more tonight...who even am I?

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Marilyn

 

[HotBrand]

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Damn it. I'm gone for two days and this happens. Fuming. Livid.

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This spoke to me. I don’t like not being good at something — it’s an extra layer between me and what I have to get done.

Do you know ... I *like* not being good at something. It's the best opportunity to learn, to grow, and to overcome ... so I take real solace in the struggle!

Speaking of which: I've been targeting the lats and delts a lot more. It is incredibly difficult and I have zero technique. I'm loving it. It means that I'm learning and developing a previously-forgotten area.

Better late than never, peeps!

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Damn it. I'm gone for two days and this happens. Fuming. Livid.

https://c.tenor.com/6fQ71_y_L4QAAAAM/tayce-ru-paul.gif


Do you know ... I *like* not being good at something. It's the best opportunity to learn, to grow, and to overcome ... so I take real solace in the struggle!

Speaking of which: I've been targeting the lats and delts a lot more. It is incredibly difficult and I have zero technique. I'm loving it. It means that I'm learning and developing a previously-forgotten area.

Better late than never, peeps!

I need to have this attitude. I got so wrapped around the axle when I’m not doing it “right”.

 

[WishesforRome]

DO IT!!!

Well I did start it yesterday... half of it until it became a distracting but fun and funny dance party with my son hijacking my phone and speaker!

Today's workouts done and felt amazing on great sleep!

Hope everyone gets and does what their body needs today!

 

[HotBrand]

I need to have this attitude. I got so wrapped around the axle when I’m not doing it “right”.

Do you know what really turned my perspective upside down - in the best possible way?

I stumbled on a proverb a couple of years back:

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success."*

Honestly, I'm not one for mantras, but that seemed like such a self-affirming thing, you know? It really compelled me to own my mistakes; that being bad at something was the greatest opportunity to become good at it. The harder it was, the greater the challenge, and the higher the hill that would be climbed.

Personally, I wish I was more willing to dive in and make a mistake, but it definitely made me more willing to accept I am wrong: it allows me to mentally 'reset' and focus on learning from my errors instead. That's pretty powerful stuff!

... then again, I'm not a perfectionist, which sounds like a double-edged sword!

Full quote: *“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” (John Smiles)​

 

[AveryElle]

Good evening Sweaters

Do you have trouble sleeping? Lately, my kids have had trouble settling down and relaxing at night. I’ve taken to talking them to sleep sometimes, and when I don’t, it still helps me to quiet my mind. I recorded what I think to myself to calm my mind and body so I can sleep. I hope you like it. It’s sort of long but you’ll get the gist if you only listen to a little at the beginning. I will probably delete this in a little while. I’d love to hear how you get to sleep if you’re struggling.

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I have the luxury of only one kid (positive spin on fertility treatment right there!) and I lie with him during one story I play through his Alexa. I hate and love it, because I know I will eventually miss it terribly. But more often than not, I doze off too.

Personally, I've always had trouble falling and staying asleep. It's really starting to manifest itself physically now that I'm an old fart. I'm considering asking my doc for a medical marijuana RX to see if it helps me with sleep. Among other things.

 

[AveryElle]

Every time you say old fart I am reminded that I’m an older fart.
Sleep is so underrated.

You're a young fine tenderoni. I'm an old hag.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

So this is where the cool kids hang out, huh?

Sleep is everything. I try to protect mine at all costs.

 

[HoneyMeadows]

Ok so tonight's work out is done and tomorrow's plan is to head to the pool. I'm going to regret this when I have to stop

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

So this is where the cool kids hang out, huh?

Sleep is everything. I try to protect mine at all costs.

Now that you’re here…;-)

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Ok so tonight's work out is done and tomorrow's plan is to head to the pool. I'm going to regret this when I have to stop

I want to go to the pool..I miss swimming. I'm part mermaid. I'll join you in spirit

 

[HoneyMeadows]

I want to go to the pool..I miss swimming. I'm part mermaid. I'll join you in spirit

Fun fact: I was afraid of swimming but when I was in uni I needed a job so became a swim teacher. I miss teaching but at the same time I don't. I can't swim "properly" but I don't drown so I call it a win

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Fun fact: I was afraid of swimming but when I was in uni I needed a job so became a swim teacher. I miss teaching but at the same time I don't. I can't swim "properly" but I don't drown so I call it a win

I'm proud of you for pushing through that fear
I had the complete opposite experience. I could swim before I could walk. There was a period of time in uni where I couldn't walk and I lived in the water because it helped me feel "normal" again.

Let's be each other's best cheerleaders

 

[HoneyMeadows]

I'm proud of you for pushing through that fear
I had the complete opposite experience. I could swim before I could walk. There was a period of time in uni where I couldn't walk and I lived in the water because it helped me feel "normal" again.

Let's be each other's best cheerleaders

Thank you I'm pretty proud of myself for it but I struggle to be a friend to myself so I forget sometimes just how far I've come. I'm my own worst enemy etc. etc.

I'm glad you were able to enjoy the water during that time.

"You can do anything you put your mind to" is where I usually start the cheerleading from (for everyone but me!).

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Rise and Shine!

 

[HotBrand]

I think I'm going to prep for another big exercise challenge day. Tomorrow, for sure, because this kid just could not get sleep!

What's the big challenge?

100 press ups without pause.
500 press ups through the day.

I've done it before (and in hindsight, I wasn't at in shape as I thought then) so it'll be a good "reclamation" as part of my Trump trademarked "Make Exercise Great Again" campaign.

That's right. That spells MEGA.

Yeah. I'm a wordsmith.

Hope you all have great and wonderful things planned for the weekend. Remember to rest and catch some rays, y'hear!

 

[HoneyMeadows]

Well guess who was the only person silly enough to be in the outdoor pool at 7am today! It was lovely but a little chilly

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Mood:
You’re a goddess. Go get ‘em
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[AlpineFresco]

I was going to ask something about HotBrand's push up challenge, but then I saw that strawberry and just got knocked off kilter.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I was going to ask something about HotBrand's push up challenge, but then I saw that strawberry and just got knocked off kilter.

It's the dimples. I understand.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I've done it before (and in hindsight, I wasn't at in shape as I thought then) so it'll be a good "reclamation" as part of my Trump trademarked "Make Exercise Great Again" campaign.

That's right. That spells MEGA.

Yeah. I'm a wordsmith.

What color hats do we get?

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Rainbow

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Rainbow

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Awesome! Thanks!