I’m sitting outside my favorite coffee shop and it is just starting to look like spring here in Kansas City. The weather conveniently cooperated for my spring break, which is a pleasant surprise after months of bone-chilling weather.
I thought my break would be filled with fun activities I can never do while in school, like reading books, practicing banjo, and working out at “normal” hours (instead of 5am which is the only time I can fit in with my medical school schedule). So far I have just been a lump on a log, sitting in various places doing practically “nothing,” which is far from my dreams of being productive and hitting the gym.
Admittedly, I have not been that good at getting up in time to work out in the mornings the past few weeks. I like to blame it on medical school and not my motivation.
But the ugly truth is, I just have not been motivated.
It is such a funny thing, motivation to work out. I am always amazed at how something that makes me feel energized and beautiful is so easy to walk away from. If I found a guy that did that for me, I would never let him go. No seriously, I would chain him to the bed.
So why can’t I get out there to work out?
The temptation of watching a movie and eating potato chips, uh hem, I mean fat free popcorn, is just too strong to compete with putting on work out clothes and feeling like a fool on a treadmill in front of lots of strangers. Recently, I suppose I should not kid myself, I am not watching any movies. Rather I study for hours but that “fat free popcorn” is still there.
Studying for medical school is a good excuse not to work out, right? Unfortunately for me, that defense doesn’t fly because I am actually a better student and learn best when I am working out regularly.
Yet another failed attempt to justify my absence from the gym.
So hopefully writing this will help me chain that motivation to the bed and never let it go.
Shannon Stevenson studies medicine and osteopathy at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am
Sometimes “nothing” is the best medicine. Try allowing your spring break to be just that-a break. Instead of doing all of the things you want to do during the semester why not do all of the things you want to do right now, guilt free? Let go of the idea that you should be eating fat free popcorn and enjoy the potato chips. Be a lump on a log. You’ve earned it!
I am not recommending you make eating potato chips and lounging on the couch a way of life but there are times at which they can be quite healthy. Your osteopathic studies and schedule during the semester are exceptionally demanding, both mental and physically. You’ve worked hard, now rest hard. That way, when the semester resumes, it is more likely that you will actually be looking forward to getting back to your regimen.
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