11-09-2021, 10:36 AMGCool Wrote: Finally started a 30 day circuit training thing yesterday. The 'initial assessment' was yesterday and I felt pretty bad about myself. After this morning's workout, I still feel almost as bad? But at least I did some stuff. I hope I actually stick with it.

There is little use in letting yourself feel bad alone, that is, if you only dwell on it without acknowledging the beautiful potential to go on and change it, flip it upside down with perfect ease. Make it false, without even trying. There is a desire to see rapid change, perhaps, to alter this and that about yourself in 30 days, become some new thing by the end of the month. You hope to stick with it, well you have the capacity to know with 100% certainty you will! Beyond 30 days! Don't be fooled by thinking you'll wait out the angst over 30 days by suffering through some mechanical actions and be where you want to be. I can't tell you how many times I set my mind for change like this only to revert to previous patterns.

Start with the end in mind, relax, knowing you have the capacity to ensure whatever change is desired.

Don't think of what you do as working out also.

I cherry picked definitions below, you can look at others if you want, I think it makes more sense to just play and have fun. Or practice getting strong, which, my perception of the ideas here comes from this guy talking about there being no word for workout in other languages: https://youtu.be/VhM7GqkyF-c

Work is defined as
"a task or tasks to be undertaken; something a person or thing has to do."
"[To] be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work"
"activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result."
"to make way slowly and with difficulty : move or progress laboriously"
"to cause to toil or labor"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work

Out =>
"in a direction away from the inside or center of something"
"so as to be missing or displaced from the usual or proper place"
"to the point of depletion, extinction, or exhaustion"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/out