The gym has become a huge help to me this past year in that for two hours each day I go in, focus on myself, and unplug from other distractions. I’ve also found from doing cardio it genuinely helps to clear my mind of other stress factors, or just focus on my breathing to help calm myself down when I start to get overwhelmed.
Read MoreWell here’s a shocker to probably most of my P.E. teachers, it’s been 9 months since I started regularly working out and guess what? I’m still doing it! How wild is that? Well the last time I updated the blog sphere I was only one month in so it’s safe to say a lot has changed since then.
So let’s do a little side by side of the improvements I was noticing a month in and see if I’m still keeping at them.
Read MoreI have always dreaded working out. I believe it started in 4th grade when I found out we would have to run the mile as part of our training for the presidential test, that requirement of how fast you needed to run/how many sit ups you needed to be able to do, and so on. I think part of why I had this strong dislike for it all was that I was never any good at it. Without getting too into it, growing up in a naturally competitive school environment was not the best for me, and so having to partake in an activity I did not feel confident in, in front of all my classmates, led me to feel like a failure at times and be really hard on myself.
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