MOTIVATION
I've now done three workouts with my personal trainer.
Three workouts in which she nearly made me cry (once with the body fat calipers, twice from reaching the physical edge.)
I'm proud to say I have learned something important from The Biggest Loser--Don't Ever Say I Can't. (Not out loud, at least--screaming it at the top of my inner lungs is another matter.)
What keeps me going the last five reps of a weight that's making my whole body tremble? Force of will? Stubbornness? Dreams of size-6 jeans? My jiggly stomach?
Alas, no. My motivation is much simpler.
Also fictional.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
I've got my Firefly DVD set sitting out on the trunk in my workout space. And when the screaming inside threatens to erupt out of my mouth, I just focus on Mal. And I hear what he said to Simon once: "You ain't weak. Don't know how smart you are . . . but you ain't weak and that's not nothing."
That's not nothing. Words to motivate--for me, at least.
Three workouts in which she nearly made me cry (once with the body fat calipers, twice from reaching the physical edge.)
I'm proud to say I have learned something important from The Biggest Loser--Don't Ever Say I Can't. (Not out loud, at least--screaming it at the top of my inner lungs is another matter.)
What keeps me going the last five reps of a weight that's making my whole body tremble? Force of will? Stubbornness? Dreams of size-6 jeans? My jiggly stomach?
Alas, no. My motivation is much simpler.
Also fictional.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
I've got my Firefly DVD set sitting out on the trunk in my workout space. And when the screaming inside threatens to erupt out of my mouth, I just focus on Mal. And I hear what he said to Simon once: "You ain't weak. Don't know how smart you are . . . but you ain't weak and that's not nothing."
That's not nothing. Words to motivate--for me, at least.
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Move over Billie Blanks, The Nathan Fillion workout is coming through!
Move over Billie Blanks, The Nathan Fillion workout is coming through!
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