Are you feeling evil, pissed off, mean-spirited or just plan ‘ole depressed? These are the moods that do not mesh with fitness.

True story…. I was feeling some type of way today, like damn near “all of the above” that I already mentioned. And because of these multiple attitudes, my brain told me to “Frack those the stairs! Take the elevator instead“.

Huh?

I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard inside my head. Frack the stairs that I’ve been climbing EVERYDAY for four years? Take the elevator instead? Because I was feeling moody and borderline bitch? That’s lame.

I caught on to the self-propaganda quickly and took the stairs anyway. But what if I hadn’t? One day of elevatoring could have led to another, and another, and then another after that. There goes my functional fitness right out the window.

We always hear about emotional eating, but what about emotional laziness? When a sad mood or a bad mood tempts you to skip out on your fitness regime to couch plop amid wallowing groans, don’t do it. Fight those feelings with your usual fitness routine and there’s a good chance those ugly emotional feelings will be obliterated in the process.

That’s my quick and dirty solution to curing emotional laziness. This is a public service announcement encouraging you to be aware of those “feelings” when you sense them creeping up. Don’t fuel emotional laziness and give it more power by succumbing to it – like taking the elevator when you never do. This way, you can squash it before it has the chance to sink in and marinate, and cause you abandon all the hard work you invest into fitness.

Don’t screw yourself over and let a sh!tty mood ruin all your awesome fitness results.

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