100 Workouts

I just completed a 100-day workout program.   Literally 100 days in a row with a 20-30 minute daily workout.  The program gave me a daily purpose for the entire Summer.  My why was to improve my physical, mental and emotional health.  Knowing the reason I started made following through on this challenge absolutely essential.

I had struggled in all areas the previous Fall and Winter.  I was just regaining my health in Spring 2020 when the pandemic set in on the United States.  And so it went that everything slid back. 

We willed and gritted our way through Spring with virtual schooling, working from home and figuring out altered family dynamics with four people living under one small roof with no place to go…ever.  I know our story is similar to millions.  And then add a giant dose of social upheaval in there too. 

By Summer, I decided I had to do something however small to change the dynamic for me.  I hoped changing something for me could provide health for our family and if the whole family felt better maybe we could do a little more for our community.  Goodness has got to expand, right?

Something for me always means creating a routine and making it movement related is my go to.  Enter Morning Meltdown 100.  Having to carve a sweaty workout into each day gave me purpose.  I love it.  I wanted to do everything else better because of the daily sweat session.  We got back to healthier foods and less alcohol in the house.  Over the course of the 100 days we spent a month in Texas and I got my mom in on the workouts too.  Once home, Jason started the same program and he’s now on day 71 and going strong.

And sure enough, my health improved.  I lost the weight I’d put on when my health had declined.  I punched, grunted, and drop kicked the stress enough to give me the confidence to change a toxic situation in my life.  I relearned that even when it’s a struggle (those cardio workouts never got any easier), I can do the hard things.  I knew I had a way.

So I’m celebrating this victory here and showing off my after picture.  But there is still so much more to come.  After taking a day of rest I got right back at it today with even more gumption to keep going.  Yes times still look bleak and they are still tough.  100 days did not change that, but this challenge etched in me that I have to keep doing all that I can do and that I have to keep being the change I want to inspire in all of us.