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200 Meter run
20 Deadlift, 135#(95#)
5 Rope climbs
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The holidays is a hard time for the committed as well as a hard time for the occasional.
If you are someone committed to a strict diet throughout the year, the holidays becomes a time when we can begin to punish ourselves for enjoying ourselves. I’m here to remind you to stop. Just stop it. There is not need to workout for 3 hours before enjoying holiday dinner with family and friends. There is no need to work out for 3 hours AFTER enjoying dinner with family and friends. All you need to do is enjoy dinner with family and friends. Why do you adhere to the strict diet throughout the year? What is the why? What is the end goal? If the “why” is to be healthy, happy, and look like your best self and the end goal is forever. . . then part of that strict diet should include some days that are not so strict. Because what you eat is not the only key to health, happiness, and looking like the best version of yourself. It is a piece. Another piece is balance. Everyone needs balance in their life. That balance comes from time with people that make you feel happy, that make you feel like the best version of yourself, that make you smile and laugh. When that times comes, dive in head first and wade in it for hours. Soak it all in. Just be in it. Don’t be in it while also taking a tally of everything you consume so you can later make up for it and punish yourself with fitness. If you are compliant 80% of the year, the 20% deviation will not undo all that has been done.
If you are someone that only occasionally pays attention to what you eat, the holidays becomes a nightmare. Because it becomes an excuse, an excuse to consume all, indulge in all, and double down on all. And when the holidays come to an end, we sit back, look in the mirror, and sit on the scale and we feel filled with shame. Shame and cookies. I am here to tell you folks a few things. Just because you do not adhere to the strictest diet throughout the year doesn’t mean you haven’t earned the right to indulge and enjoy the holidays as well. But the bigger thing I want to remind you is this, 99% of food available during the holidays exist the other 364 days of the year. Don’t let the holiday parties and the family get together fool you in to thinking you need to eat it all now otherwise you won’t see it again until next year. You could have it next month if you want to. The holidays do not need to be all or nothing. With that said, a little helpful planning ahead of time Monday- Friday can allow for the extra cookies at the party on Saturday. I’ll say it again, the holidays do not need to be all or nothing. Rather than November 1st saying “fu*k it” until January 2nd, spend the weekdays tightening the reigns. Clean it up Monday-Friday, maybe tighter than you do the rest of the year. Tighten it up so come those holiday parties on the weekends, you can let loose and throw down. But come Monday, re tighten. Living a clean life 5 days a week with full food debauchery 2 days a week, might leave you feeling less crummy come January 2nd when the holidays have come to their end.
The truth is everyone needs to enjoy this time of year. And no one needs to come to the end of the holidays feeling bad about all that enjoyment. Whether you are the type of person to weigh and measure your food or you are the type of person who just read that and was like “WTF does weigh and measure mean?”, be in the moment at that work party, really sit and listen to stories while at family functions, cheers to the relationships formed with friends at various life stages. Because it truly is the season to be merry.
