This Post is Late ‘Cause I Was Too Tired to Write: A Fitness Post

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, writing can be exhausting, and that is because thinking can be exhausting. People tend to think ( actually I don’t know what people tend to think, but this is what I think people tend to think) exhausting work is labor intensive work, but au contraire, mon frere there is all kinds of exhausting work and sometimes it’s just having your brain just going all day.

But anyway, I said all that to say, ya girl is tired. And lately I’ve just been tired all the damn time. I don’t sleep well at night. I don’t sleep long when I do sleep. Even if I go to bed early – and that’s a rare occasion – I’ll wake up three, four hours later. Eight hours of sleep, what? Eight hours of sleep, who? Not me, maybe you.

What it all boils down to, as my grandmother used to say, or what it partly boils down to, as I’m saying now, is I’m out of shape. I was reading something somewhere  (I don’t remember where) where they were doing a mini-profile on several commercially successful writers and one thing that they all had in common was that they all exercised regularly. Perhaps like me, your initial thought was,  what’s exercising got to do with it, they sit on their asses all day and write. But there is a difference I feel after exercising, even if I’m going to sit on my ass all day and write, or more like watch TV. But it does give you energy. I’m not going to even lie. After a nice walk or doing a cardio routine off of YouTube, I’m ready for the world.

I haven’t gone for a walk or did a YouTube exercise video in months, and I’m feeling their absence. So now, it’s time for me to start it up again. I need to start taking my health and fitness more seriously and get this sluggish feeling off of me.

To get the job done for 2023, I think I want to join and gym. And not just join a gym, but also sign-up for some personal training classes. I know we’re still in the throes of the pandemic, but I think I can brave a trip to the gym, if nothing else to get the motivation that comes from seeing other people doing the same thing.

‘Member step aerobics? They should bring that back. Random thought that just came to me and I thought I’d share.

But yeah, if I’m going to get the most out of life, I can’t live it lacklusterly. And it’s funny, most every time I sit down to write, this wave of lethargy comes over me, but when I sit down to do some online shopping, a burst of energy comes over me. I could do that all night long.

I think that just goes to show the mind, body connection. Perhaps it’s my contentious relationship with writing that triggers the feelings of exhaustion because my mind knows that I don’t want to do it.  And the fact that exercising makes me feel better does too. 

So yeah, I’m going to start trying to prioritize exercise, or at least try to incorporate it in to my daily life more often…create a routine, and well, we’ll see.