What’s your favorite part of your body? Or what used to be your favorite part?
I miss my triceps. I’ve been mourning for them since I got pregnant.
Besides my triceps, I appreciated my calves and my clavicles–really, the whole front area around my shoulders and clavicles. I’ve been missing all these parts, then not doing anything to get them back.
Not anymore. A few days ago I started doing five push ups a night before bed. It’s not many, I realize. One night I actually did eight, but my goal for now is five. I’ll just do five until that’s too easy and then I’ll add some.
I’ve also started doing calf raises, standing on a stair and lifting up on tip toe, then letting my heels drop. Since I started running at the beginning of the year, I’ve developed shin splints. I remembered something about them being caused by the muscles at the front and back of the calf developing at different speeds so that they pull apart.
The back of my calves are looking pretty good these days, but the fronts ache. They are tearing from underdevelopment. Before I go upstairs to do my five push ups, I do anywhere from 25- 50 calf raises.
Soon, I will have the triceps and calves that went missing four years ago. I think the clavicle/shoulder area will take more work but I’ll get to that later, along with the sit ups. For now, five push ups and calf raises until the muscles in my butt and lower legs burn is plenty. Sometimes a little resolution is enough. If I were trying to do 50 push ups or even had 50 as a goal, I would feel discouraged. Five is totally doable.
The running I’ve been doing fixes more than my body. That running is jeopardized by shin splint pain. Getting rid of that pain is enough motivation for me to tip toe/drop over and over.
Once I get two of my favorite muscles sets back to beautiful, I’ll set another fitness goal. For now, I’m happy to have something that I can accomplish in less than one minute. It’ll add up.
What’s the smallest fitness goal you ever set for yourself? Did you meet it?
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