There is no Try!

I think we all know that Yoda, fictional as he may be is wise.  But he never tried the Prone Jackknife.  I hereby give myself permission to sub this exercise temporarily with planks.

Since I've made public my commitment to fitness and weight loss, I've been getting comments that mostly fall into two categories.

The Unsure:

"Wow, you're lifting weights. I wouldn't do that until I was more fit, because it wouldn't help."

"I've never lifted weights before, I don't know how, I'm going to do xyz treadmill"

"Wow, you do a whole Zumba class, I don't think I could do that."

"You work out xyz days, you can take a break."

"I just couldn't find the time..."

When I hear these comments, I only let myself hear two things.  

A. These people are super impressed by how awesome I am.  

B.  They are really making comments about themselves and not me.

The Motivators:

"You can do it!"

"That's awesome"

"Let me show you how to do a dumbell snatch"

"Come do some planks with me!"

"You did a Zumba Class? Awesome!  Come do BodyPump with me."

"You wanna lift some weights?"

These people have previously found the motivation in themselves, or really do think I can do it.  I like to think they are also super impressed at how awesome I am.

NO EXCUSES:

Today I had plans to get to the 9:30 Zumba class.  Then my 2 yr old was up all night coughing, and my 4 yr old woke up with a stomach ache and a 102 temp.  No gym for me since I'm home alone this weekend.

Did I let that be my excuse to not workout? NO! The 4 yr old requested a nap (must really be sick), and I put the 2 yr old down too.  And I immediately started 65 intense minutes of Zumba/Dance central where I burned 720 calories according to my Heart Rate Monitor.  I brought it today.  No excuses.  And it was awesome.