Lately I’ve been doing a little bit of chauffeuring. Not that much, really, but today is a “day off.” The actual average daily time I’ve spent chauffeuring during the past few days of not working out has been only a very scant few hours, therefore any chauffeuring I’ve been doing is a flimsy excuse and not really valid at all for not having worked out. A better excuse would be laziness. But does being lazy justify not doing something?
As of today I’m back at it and wondering what the workout plan will be for the immediate future. I managed to get myself to do a 200 Cal workout using the rationale that it wouldn’t take very long and would be over with quickly and that would be all that I’d do this morning. But then after doing that I felt guilty for not doing any rowing whatsoever, so I sat on the rowing machine and rowed a 1000 meter piece.
Zaniness is welcome with regard to working out but I tend to be conventional on the ergs. So as I said earlier, I’m wondering what to do for the next few days. The picture I get in my mind is of John (that’s me) standing at the base of a mountain whose top is hidden in the clouds. John is looking up in the direction of a voice that is coming from somewhere out of sight. The mountain is rocky, like a desert mountain with no trees, just rocks, stones and boulders. John can hear a noise coming from somewhere up in the clouds. A few rocks are tumbling and bouncing down the slope because there’s movement up there. The distant voice John hears from somewhere up in the clouds says that he could do another 200 Calories tomorrow on the SkiErg and afterwards he could follow that with two sessions of 1000 meters each on the rowing machine.
Yelping to persuade me, my imagination indicates that the distant voice and movement somewhere higher on the mountain above the clouds is my subconscious and/or perhaps my not-to-be-trusted heart. But of course I suspect that my imagination is making it all up so as to persuade me to let it have its way.
The mental image of placing my subconscious higher up and out of sight on an imaginary mountain may have been partly influenced by a passage I read recently in a book by Gabor Maté, MD, in which he states that the higher (physically) the part of the human brain, the more complex and less automatic are the functions of that part of the brain.
Happy rowing to you!