An out of shape insomniac with no motivation should not make a New Year's Resolution to go to the gym in the wee hours of the morning. I wish I could go back in time and share this tid-bit of information with myself at the beginning of the year.
I begrudgingly crawled out of the bed this morning at 6 am, threw on a ratty t-shirt and jeans, and trudged out into the subarctic temperatures that have decided to come to ALA-FREAKING-BAMA. I got to the gym and went inside to find it full of big, hairy, sweaty men that knew exactly what they were doing. I, however, have the technological skills of a cricket so I felt pretty dumb fiddling with the so called "treadmill" and trying to get it to turn on. (What happened to just walking on it and it moving?)
Several minutes later I finally got to rolling. Literally...rolling. I almost fell down because it caught me of guard going from stationary to Jesse Owens mode it 0.2 seconds. After I finally got the hang of it, I walked. And I walked. And I walked. Then I got on a bike and I pedaled, and pedaled, and pedaled.
The rest of the day I felt like I could pass out, pass out, pass out.
Later today, I kept falling asleep while I was taking notes in Biology. Normally the stimulating lectures on the Scientific Method keep me bright eyed and bushy tailed (insert scoff here) but today I just kept nodding off! I have little black lines all over my paper from where I would fall asleep in the middle of writing a word. The boy beside me probably thought I was a terrible mix between a narcoleptic and someone with Parkinson's disease...
The moral of the story is...
Never make New Year's Resolutions that conflict with the ways of nature.
For example: A fish should not say "This year I'm going to fly more than swim." or a squirrel shouldn't decide "Hey...I think I am going to try to take the freeway more often."
But most importantly...
Angela Wilson should not decide to go to the gym at the butt crack of dawn ever again.
5 comments:
haha man i'm sorry to hear your resolution isn't quite working out. you know, they have 24 hour gyms where you can go late at night and whatnot. or maybe just go in the afternoon or early evenings? just remember, it's not *that* unnatural. you can do anything to which you set your mind. :)
Haha...yeah, the gym I go to is the one that is covered by my tuition and it is 24 HRS. I'm going to continue going in the early mornings because I need to carry out things I start.
And thanks for being supportive! xx
It is NOT 24 hours. It opens at 6 am and closes at 11 pm. Either way you can make it work! I have a feeling that your set goals are going to be met this year.
How is this resolution going? :p
This is funny.
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