Almost didn't make it today - was soooooo close to skipping today's jumps. Tough night with the lil one stirring a few times so was hardly well rested in the morning. By day's end, when I put the bub to bed, I was spent.
All I wanted to do was have ( the measly ) dinner, a hot shower and crawl into bed...but couldn't do it. The guilt just kept at it so at 730, put my shoes on and thwacked out the jumps.
And yup, it's all mental. Once I did the first 100, the rest were pretty easy.
What works for me is mentally counting them in sets of 50 whilst doing 150 at a go. When I count them in sequence, I find that at 120, I start to wobble. Keeping the count to 50 somehow makes them more bearable.
Felt FAB when I was done. As I sit here tapping this out, lesson learnt - Just Do It.
Good for you that you did it.
ReplyDeleteHave you got a self counting skipping rope? I just love mine.
I do have one actually but the feel of it's not doing it for me. So sticking to the first one that I bought.
ReplyDeleteFind that I concentrate better when I count.
I was wondering that myself about the concentration. My counter skipping rope hasn't arrived yet, but I quite like counting to 100. It feel good when I get to 70 as I know that I am nearly at 100. I also have a low tech notepad which I have cut into sections and labelled with 100, 200, 300 etc so when I complete one set of 100 I turn it over. Can't remember where I am otherwise!
ReplyDeleteGo girl girl!
ReplyDeleteAwesome...Great Going Girl....
ReplyDeleteThere are going to be a lot of days like that!! The guilt really gets to you when you skip a day and you always feel so much better when you "just do it". I'm the worst after a long day so it's an on going battle for me as well esp since the last 30 days are pretty tough and I'm so busy at work. Let's make a deal with eachother to not skip any workouts the next 27 days. When I want to skip I'll think about letting you down and vice versa even though really the one we let down the most is ourselves, the guilt gets worse to as you get further into pcp :-)
ReplyDeleteRemember that feeling you had AFTER, and don't focus on the dread of before. Apply this kind of mental control often now and in a few weeks it will become second nature to pick up the rope and just do it.
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