Okay, here we go again—-I smelled that meat sauce with the green peppers and onions and celery cooking from the kitchen way in here, and I just had to have a big old plate of pasta with that yummy sauce heaped on top and all covered with grated cheese——and, mmmmmm. So what does that have to do with ab exercises? Everything. I should be doing them instead of eating all this pasta, but there are such things as priorities, and this pasta comes way before exercising on that scale.
I’ve started doing some recommended ab exercises that my trainer suggested I try, because my midriff is getting flabby and I need to build up my core muscles and strengthen all the muscles that make up the core area so I have better support. Exercising is not much fun, and I’m having a tough time sticking with the program—-hence the big plate of spaghetti now and then.
So, I have my medicine ball and all the other accoutrements that go with doing a good set of ab exercises; and I try to stick to a routine that stays pretty much the same every week, but I just can’t get my head into it. For some reason, I am just not motivated enough to put a whole lot of effort into it and I’m beginning to think I am just plain lazy when it comes to exercising. I start off with a bang, but as the week wears on, I think of all kinds of other things I would rather be doing. Those exercises are a real drag for me, and I wish there was another way to get the same results without having to do all that work.
I bet things would be different if I had a girlfriend, a person of interest, or any kind of a friend that was interested in how I looked—-then I would feel the need to get up and get moving and start exercising for real. But, when I’m told I have to do these ab exercises for 3-5 times a week, and keep that up for every week without fail; I say—-nuts to that. And without anyone around who really cares what I look like or any kind of a goal that I’ve set for myself, then I don’t see much on the horizon for me as far as developing my midriff. Isn’t there some other way without having to exert all this effort.
I know there are a lot of psychological explanations for the abhorrence that I have for ab exercises, but I guess the main one is that you have to want to do it for yourself. It’s all that drivel about loving yourself first and doing for yourself and developing your self esteem, and then all the rest will follow—like sticking to an exercise routine. You must make up your mind that this is what you want, and by golly you are doing this for yourself, and no one else.
Maybe something that will work is if I start traveling more with my friends that eat right and take care of themselves but don’t go nuts over exercising and all that; because they look pretty good, seem to be in good shape, and they don’t run to the gym every 5 minutes for ab exercises—–their lifestyle seems to work without all the sweating and grunting associated with exercising. That’s an idea that might work.
Just had another newsflash mentally—-I should find myself a true blue love interest that will find me attractive the way I am now, but would be supportive of my starting ab exercises and sticking to a routine to improve myself down the road. Now that sounds like a plan that would work—-motivation is the key here, and a little loving now and then is a good gas pedal for motivation. Yessirree. Well, I just might do that, just as soon as I finish this plate of yummy spaghetti and sauce, and then slowly pull myself up off the couch. Yep, it’s a done deal.
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