My Journey With Health And Fitness – Dealing With Change

For the past couple weeks I have been having issues with my right shoulder. It feels like another bulging disk might be coming on so I have been careful about lifting weights over my head. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and my left shoulder was bugging me. I started to worry that I was getting myself in real trouble here until when I got up and felt my left arm I realized the pain was from getting my COVID shot yesterday. Phew, it was a relief when I figured that out.

I don’t deal well with change. Don’t get me wrong, I dealt with it a ton during my career and with the medical issues in my family I often have to change directions. I don’t know why but those things I can handle, what I can’t is significant changes to my routine.

There is an awesome book, Who Moved The Cheese, which talks about why people don’t like change. It also deals with how to implement change management to try and understand why this stresses people out. And I acknowledge that I used to be involved with implementing changes in the workplace and being one of the managers doing the change management plan. Still, that does not give me a lot of comfort.

It was announced last week that changes were being made to class schedule at my Fitness Centre. A lot of the changes had to do with some trainers leaving and new ones coming on board which I can live with. What shook me up was the fact that I have a routine of what type of classes I do each day and now they are totally different. I voiced some concerns about how this would impact me but I was gently talked off the ledge and assured I would still get the awesome workouts I need first thing every morning.

Changes like this are hard for me and trust me when I say my husband can tell you many stories of me freaking out when things go off schedule. But really, if the end result is going to be the same then I am just going to have to deal with it.