Short and sweet today, have a great Xmas everyone, and if you are interested in doing any classes down by the river at Currumbin over the next week, please let me know.
I will be between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, resting, eating and trying to keep a little bit fit in-between.
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
I didn’t really understand until this year, just how stressful this time of the year can be for people.
I am fortunate that Christmas for me is a joyous time, yet for many the thought of spending time with family they may not really like can be a forced and stressful situation.
The thought of racing from one family function to another is tiring before it even begins.
The act of running around; shopping, cleaning, fitting in as much as possible is exhausting rather than exhilarating.
If this is all ringing out true for you, then please know that it is ok to just slow down for a moment, it is ok to sit still and breathe.
It is ok to take it easy at the gym, rather than push your fatigued body.
You are the master of your own destiny and if you need to slow down, then give yourself permission to do just that.
Anyone reading this post who knows the amount of classes I have already done this week, may find this hypocritical and as my mum reads my blogs and always worries I am overdoing it (hi mum, love you) I am not going to actually tell you how many classes I have done.
What I am going to tell you is how I am coping with doing x amount of classes.
Aside from walking like a zombie, speaking as though English is my second language and spilling things all over myself frequently I am in fact coping!
I am coping by resting in-between classes. In fact this week has felt like a crazy blur and I think on Tuesday I had convinced myself it was already Thursday.
I have been doing 5:45am classes, I will then come home and sleep for an hour or two then do my next class, rest, eat, teach again and repeat the process all over again.
As much as we all like to think we are invincible, and as much as I promote the theory of pushing and challenging yourself, there are limits.
We are human, we need rest, our muscles need the correct nourishment to thrive, and that nourishment comes in the form of eating well, drinking water to re-hydrate and resting.
It is counter productive not to do so!
As always I learnt that the hard way.
If you are exercising frequently you NEED to eat and rest frequently or I dare say you are without knowing it, undoing all the good work you set out to do.
Think about your computer, your smart phone – they perform well until they don’t! We reboot them and then wallah, they leap back into action refreshed reawakened. Our bodies are the same!
The more we work them, the more we need to treat them with the rest they deserve.
Resting your body is just as important as moving it!
