Ah, we haven’t worked out

Up until yesterday we hadn’t paid the gym even a small visit for straight 2 weeks. Not even a stop by to say “Hi, Gym, how are you?”. We didn’t even write to it in Whazzapp. We forgot that it even existed.

Needless to say – we also didn’t work out at home. Or anywhere else. And that, even though the song of LMFAO, and more importantly the lyric: “Ah, we work out” is stuck in our head and pops up no matter what we're doing. And the worst thing is – we think we always say it, more like sing it, out loud. Imagine the looks we get in the streets, in the grocery store or in the cinema. Like we've got some serious psychotic disorder. We're just saying we work out. Not doing any harm. Didn’t know it was a crime.

And who’s to say what a workout looks like? To some it might be running, squats and triathlons, to others it might be just walking in heels down the street, and other might even consider watching a movie a workout.

Whatever. Somehow the last weeks were quite full for us – with the trade show and other events we had to visit – and we ignored working out (like at the gym). Our body and our mind were in pain. We hate when we don’t make the time to do our exercises – we're having a hard time focusing and our mood is getting worse with every workoutless-day.

So yesterday when we finally got to exercise at the gym we were ecstatic. This work out thing is a miracle. Generally we are in a good mood lately, because the sun is shining and it’s more shades blue than grey. But we were feeling sorta low on self-esteem. We can’t even explain why, since nothing specific happened.

After our workout we felt like a champion. Like an Einstein-and-a-Victoria-secret-model-baby gone good. We mean – we felt smart and attractive.

And that even though we hadn’t washed our hair for some time. Hm, maybe that’s another reason for low self-esteem, huh!

Even though we didn’t take off the fat costume we created thanks to the food trade show after the first workout, still in our mind we were happy and satisfied with myself. The Work Out Miracle. Patent pending.

So now we've got a new specific habit we want to develop to help us not only lose weight, but also help us with our discipline, our mood and our productivity. We will start working out in the morning. Every morning.

In fact we started today already. And we feel awesome. Usually it always takes us a long time to wake up and we never feel like we're fully there – we're always distracted, somewhere in our thoughts or looking for some nonsense on The Google or on The Samsung.

Today we did this workout at 7 in the morning and it took us about 20 minutes with warm up and some stretching. Afterwards we felt amazingly alive and awaken. Which for us never happens. We feel like we're always half asleep.

We've always thought that we're more of a batgirl (not to say a night owl), because we get more done in the evening. But might just be, that this is because we always do our exercises in the evening. There’s been a lot of research about exercising and how it can improve mood and cognition.

So let’s see if it does work for us. Keep your fingers crossed, cause our vacation is just 2 months from now and we're not going there without abs and a ton of work executed