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Forget the Hype — Here’s Why Your Next Workout Won’t Work Unless You Start Listening to Your Emotions (and How I’m Training to Run on the Moon)
Let me qualify this article by saying I am an Ironman. So this isn’t just some feel good crap I’m making up out of no where. Now I wanna be straight: many of us who run races like the Ironman do it partly because we feel inadequate. And that is a bad place to approach anything from.
I really want to lose weight. And get in great shape. You can probably relate. I went from 256 to 238 in 3 weeks which I felt proud of but my daily range was so high in terms of weight fluctuation. The last time I tried to get in shape I started running 1 mile every day and getting in the gym a few times a week. It paid off until 1.5 months in I had a strained hip area and could barely get in and out of my car. I’m 40 so I think this is relatable.
This time around, I took a different approach. I decided to focus on regulating my emotion. I am a workaholic. I tend to work late into the evening and this means having a glass of wine or beer at the end of a night staring at my screen. I end up eating…
