What do you like to do? What is your favorite workout? There are two camps, those who like cardio and those who like resistance training or weight lifting. Personality, and body type draw you to one camp or the other. When you switch camps, the weight lifters hate cardio and the cardio peeps are not happy or given to the difficult work in the free weight area!
There is a third camp, CLASSES. Are you a class groupie? You love to step into a class and be surrounded by people and you like to suffer together or you like the fact that a class picks you up and carries you along, instructing you into places you would not go on your own.
I’m a trainer and a spin instructor. Left to my own I am a cardio exerciser. I don’t much care for weight lifting and resistance machines. I like a long ride on a spin bike, or cardio machine.
I think the most important thing is TO KNOW YOURSELF, and start in your HAPPY PLACE! If you are trying to start up and build momentum, go with what you KNOW and go with what you LIKE. Don’t apologize, just get up and moving, and as you get a basic foundational level of fitness then branch out.
Don’t make this harder than it is, by getting up at 4:30am for a 5:30am gym visit, unless that is your happy place!
Don’t go to a grueling spin class and die, unless that is your happy place!
Don’t head right towards the weights and pick up a 50lb wt for your first bicep curl, unless that is your happy place!
Don’t go after work, if you are dead tired, and can’t function, unless that is your happy place.
If you want to work on your weaknesses, that’s great, but wait until you have YOUR STRENGTHS ROLLING…Go-To-Your-Happy PLACE!
I believe you will have a better chance at strengthening a weakness, if you are in a strong place first. Go to your happy place and enjoy it as you rebuild your strength!
