My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Change Is As Good As A Rest

I’m back to setting goals for each week to help push myself. This week it is walk 20 km a day at least 6 days. I like having goals because I find that it forces me to push myself harder. And, the harder I push myself the better I feel at the end of the day. Besides, with everything going on in my life it is really helping to reduce my stress level.

My Dad used to say to us ‘if you get tired of walking start running because a change is as good as a rest’. He had a litany of these sayings my favourite of which was ‘your arse is sucking slough water’. I was never really certain what that meant. Anyways, a change is as good as a rest really came to mind during my fitness class this morning. It’s not like each class is the same particularly when I mainly deal with 3 different trainers. However, they each have their own sense of style when it comes to working out but in general each of their classes follow along similar lines.

Today the instructor opted to do a completely different class which she named One Weight Wonder. Now this is a strength and mobility class and today the focus was really on the strength part of it. She set up a number of complex exercises (and by complex I mean having to do more than one move often times while at the same time trying to balance). However, the exercises tended to be unilateral meaning working one side at a time. I found that I was having to concentrate far harder than what I do in most classes and when we were done I felt like I had really accomplished something.

Doing a class so unlike what we normally do was really enjoyable. It made me hope that I see more of these unique classes that bring a new level of challenge. So yeah, a change did feel as good as a rest.