The truth about stress

Wondering where I’ve been the past couple of weeks?  I’ve been stressed.  It’s left my unmotivated to do much.  I’ve still be working out because HELLO that’s a big stress reliever.  I think if I didn’t workout, I would be a bundle of nerves and anxiety.  When I’m stressed or in a foul mood, the blog is really the thing that suffers.

I'm having a moment with #stress but I'm fighting the good fight. #fitfluential #fitfam #sweatpink #motivation

It’s easy to talk about all the great things going on in life but when things aren’t so great sometimes it’s just hard to find the words.  It’s hard to find the words to motivate and inspire others to be the best versions of themselves too.

Everyone goes through rough times and when you’re in it, you just feel like it’s the worst thing that has ever happened. But when you step out of it, sometimes you see it wasn’t a big deal at all.

I’m human.  I have really great days and I have really bad days.  The best piece of advice I can give to you is just to keep going.  When things aren’t going too well, it’s easy to say I’m not going to do anything.  The most important thing is to keep going.  I haven’t really been jumping up and down about doing my workouts lately, but I still did them.  I know that if I didn’t go out there to do those workouts, that would have been a regret I would have spent too much time talking about.

And in the end, I may have been tired or sluggish when I started, but I still finished.  And there’s nothing better than making it through a workout that I never thought I would begin.

On a good note: I’m heading to Denver on Friday for the Revel Rockies Marathon this weekend.  I’m super excited to go back to a place I never said I would return.  Last year I ran the RnR Denver half marathon and I just didn’t really enjoy the city but now I’m learning that’s because I was trapped downtown.  We didn’t venture out.  I’m a nature girl so I can’t wait to get out to run the trails in Denver and Boulder.  I’ll talk more about my trip soon.

 

Not the best day

Not the best day

Today hasn’t been kind to me. The day started out great but it went down hill shortly after I taught my cycle class this morning. My ankle has been bothering me but I trucked through the class. I really enjoyed teaching the class this morning and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Teaching this class was probably the best thing of the day.  I don’t know why I was so excited but I woke up at 3 am for my 5am class.  I was an eager beaver to motivate those who came to class this morning. Things started to go down…

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Lost and broken

Lost and broken

I hate to do this to you but I’m going to have a “let’s get real” moment with you.  It’s just something I need to get off my chest because I really think it’s been weighing me down.  So here it is: When the St. Jude Marathon was canceled it broke me! I know I ran the miles, but in my mind it wasn’t good enough! I started training for that marathon in June and I did almost every single run on my training plan except for 5 runs and those were always short runs I bailed on.  I invested…

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