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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

I'm Back!

This year has been a bit of a struggle for me.  As much as I love doing challenges I spent a large amount of time during and after feeling like no matter how hard I tried it was never enough.  I have surrounded myself online with some amazing people.  People who are achieving astounding things whether it be competing in Olympic lifting, placing in marathons or bodybuilding competitions.  While it is inspirational I sometimes feel like I'm an underachiever.

Last night I had a shift in my mindset.  My workout was called 'Nicole' which involved 20 min AMRAP 400 m run and pull-ups to failure.  By my third round of 400 m I wanted to walk rather than run, my lungs were in my throat and I wanted to back off but I put my head down and pushed on.  My running was the Cliffy Young Shuffle but at least I didn't give in.  I'm bloody proud of my workout last night, I didn't do the most reps nor did I run the fastest but I kept going and it felt awesome :-)

6 comments:

Magda said...

Hello fellow Cliff Young Shuffler. LOL. If it worked for Cliff ....... :-)

What a great shift in your thinking Mich. Sometimes the hardest work we do is getting our thinking right (maybe)

M

Liz N said...

Hmmph, I think I need to slap you. How dare you think you're not up to scratch?
I think you're awesome!

Kek said...

We all feel that way at times, Michelle. Sometimes a LOT of the time. That doesn't make it true. x

Please, please PLEASE take that damn captcha thingie off your comments. I've tried and failed to leave umpteen comments since Blogger changed it - I can't READ it 90% of the time. :( Fingers crossed this one works...

Unknown said...

I didn't even realise I had that thingy on my comments. LOL! All good, I think I've taken it off now.

Maryanne said...

Michelle, I too go through this mind set as well, and as Magda said our mind can sometimes be the biggest challenge. I currently have a broken bone in my foot, less than 10 months since I had major knee surgery so you can imagine my mind is all over the place, but I too had a small window where I thought its all OK because I can still fit in my size 10 shorts hahaha! Getting my fitness back will be hard work but I'm going to face that when I get there!

Keep your chin up, you are doing awesome and I really admire your honesty on your blog!

Unknown said...

Maryanne - that's no good about your foot and thanks :-)