Last Tueaday, I decided getting up 5 days a week at 4 am and working out all 5 days was this obstacle.
And I set forth determined to do that. The first week, I successfully got up 3 days in a row starting Wednesday and worked out. And guess what, I felt awesome. I was invigorated, my brain was alive, and I felt amazingly calm.
Ok, I can imagine the eye rolls. Who wants to hear about my exercise? No one. I get that. It's as interesting as hearing about people's diets.
In this case though, the unique factor is the sleep deprevation. By Friday I was ready for bed by 2 pm as the adrenaline rush dropped away.
Even by 10 am I felt my brain chugging along as I struggled to have a coffee with a new lawyer at my firm, so much so I worried he'd perceive my incoherent sentence fragments and rambling as drunkeness. So I explained my early workout routine. In hindsight, I'm not sure why.
The look in his eye clearly cast as much judgement as if I'd said I'd had a Bloody Mary before work. Though I think my discipline intimidated him, even if my stilted brain didn't.
This week, though, I couldn't make the five days of early workouts. I did succeed three days: Monday, Wednesday, and friday. Next week I'm shooting for four.
I will let people think what they want. I will accomplish this challenge and study in sleep deprevation.
No comments:
Post a Comment