Are You Running With Crabs
Well, the Tour de France is over and my daily cycling addictions have now subsided … it’s back to my normal evening routine. No more staying up until midnight watching the race, reading tour blogs on the train, and peeking at Twitter feeds to see flat stage race progress. My evening is now wide open to relax a bit more and work on this dusty blog of mine. Just in time for the upcoming Healthy Living Summit.
Despite my two wheeled diversion I still managed to find time for workouts. I actually just finished up Week 7 of the Couch to 10k iPhone application from Felt Tip. It’s been a fun and well designed little application so far and it’s helped us to keep on track and following a controlled regiment for our race in the fall. The program is 13 weeks in duration with 3 days per week of running. It’s essentially an interval application that starts with 30 second running and 4 minute 30 seconds walking 7 times in week 1 and ends with you running for the entire duration of a 10k race when your done in week 13. We’re about to start running for 5 minutes and walking for 1 minute for about 70 minutes total in week 8, wish me luck.
Do you have supportive crabs?
In my random snippets of train time, when I wasn’t reading cycling blogs, I’ve been listening to a good health & fitness book on audiobook (more at a later date on which one) and they had a great analogy that really hit home with me the past few weeks.
Working out and getting healthy is a lot like crabs in a bucket.
People around you tell you what you can’t achieve, they often times tell you your wasting your time to try to lose weight or get healthy. They make fun of what your eating and are always making excuses as to why they can’t do it or better yet they want something for nothing. When you do succeed, they resent your success and don’t want you to get any further. They’re dragging you down like crabs in a bucket, each one pulling down anyone that manages to get above them.
What’s weird (and regrettable) is that often times the people closest to you pull you down and are the worst offenders of all … Poor choices are easier to justify when others around you are making the same poor choices.
Be responsible for all of your results, positive or negative, and realize that the choices of those around you influence your success so surround yourself with healthy positive people, not emotional vampires.
Do you accept responsibility for your positive or negative state? Are you responding to or excusing your current state?
Sean, if your bucket is filled with crabs, I hope you are able to dump the bucket.
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At first, I was excusing my laziness, my binges, my funk. Then that excuse turned to realization. And now I’m trying to get a handle on it. I’m at 90%, but the remnants of that binge still lingers.
I think it has a lot to deal with me leaving home and my parents wanting to take me out to enjoy things I won’t be able to eat for awhile. Funny how love is usually connected with food.
Anyway, those close to you have the ability to drag you down because you actually care about what they say. My parents have the strangest way of being supportive. I know they’re being supportive with their negative comments but it sure as hell feels like a stinging paper cut. And sometimes, I just have to tell them that they’re being unsupportive and I don’t appreciate how they talk to me.
Sometimes, communication is all it takes.
You’ve got this Sean
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What a great post! I think that it is important for me to reevaluate what I’m doing in terms of fitness. I find I need to have goals in order for me to keep pushing myself. By the way – congratulations on your incredible weight loss.
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