Summer is that time when everyone is obsessed with trying to get and maintain a "bikini body." Students finally have time to workout since they aren't overwhelmed with classes and exams, athletes need to get in shape for their incoming season and everyone in general wants a "beach bod." It's all in all the prime time for working out.
However, all of those big glorious plans we have for how often we're going to work out and how hot and in shape we're going to be by the end of summer...kind of go out the window as soon as we actually have to do the working out thing...
Here are some of the ways we feel when we try to workout throughout the summer.
1. It's day one of your workout and you are PUMPED to get started.
You are READY to go! This is going to be a great summer! You love working out! #fit
2. When you realize that working out means you actually have to get out of bed and possibly leave the house...
Um yeah, how about I just stay in bed and I'll leave the remote at the end of the bed so I have to do a sit-up every time I want to change the channel?
3. Actually making it to the gym and realizing how out of shape you really are
First you get out of breath just from walking the stairs up to the gym, and then you can't breathe after two minutes on the treadmill. Whoops.
4. Waking up the day after a workout and feeling more sore than you've ever felt in your life.
When you roll over the morning after a workout and realize that all of your muscles have been ripped in half and you can't move...
5. Trying to decide if the heat outside is making you sweat enough that it counts as going to the gym for the day
Sweating burns calories right? And working out makes you sweaty... So if the sun is already making me sweat then do I really neeeeeed to go to the gym?
6. Actually noticing that you're gaining some muscle!
You've made it to the gym a few times and now when you flex you are able to notice some definition! #results
7. When you wonder if eating counts as a workout...
Technically you do work up a sweat...and you have to walk all the way down the stairs in order to get anything so pretty much you've already worked out for the day.
8. Coming up with every excuse imaginable for why you can't go to the gym today
"But if I get up then my bed will be lonely..."
"I have work tomorrow so I really need to make sure I'm rested."
And whatever other excuses you can come up with.
9. Realizing that just having a body already means you have a "bikini body" so why are you even so stressed about working out to begin with?
You're hot no matter what and everyone can look good in a bikini so, really, you don't HAVE to work out if you don't want to. Girl keep on Feelin' Yourself! #flawless
10. Remembering that you're an athlete and you have preseason in two months...
all you can think is "Oh crap...I actually need to start doing this" and frantically get to the gym to do as much working out as you can to make up for lost time.
Everyone has their own reasons for why they "need" to workout. For some people it's health, others want to work on their bodies, some have to work out for their sport and the crazy others just genuinely enjoy it.
No matter what the reason is, pretty much everyone who has ever considered working out has felt some of these things.
