21/10/2022
What an awesome morning to finish of a week of gratitude! After Saturday’s floods and watching the water rise to within 5 mm of the gym floor (my gosh! Talk about someone watching over us!) we kicked of Monday morning in party mode and ran the theme of testing our limits and celebrating our wins all week.
This morning we reran our fitness test and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to see any improvement in our results. After a really tough winter where most of us battled chest infections and fatigue due to COVID, Flu and other health challenges, we all felt like we were lagging in our cardio capacity and even in staying consistent in our workout routines. But we all have done what we could, when we could and though our performances on the gym floor didn’t feel like groundbreaking moments, getting together each day left us all feeling better mentally and kept us from backsliding even further.
What an amazing and pleasant surprise when we smashed through the test - all of us reaching new personal bests and recovering so much faster than our last test in Autumn! The improvements each day felt so small we barely noticed them, yet the cumulative effect was profound! I’m not lifting my heaviest ever, weighing my lightest, looking my most sculpted or jumping my highest, or even feeling my youngest. But I am the fittest, most flexible, able to do the widest range of activities for the longest and fastest to recover than I have ever been! Not all progress comes with bells and whistles, but the best rewards come quietly, bit by bit, almost unnoticed.
And best of all, I get to share the experience with my crew of awesome people who train with me! Such a wonderful catch up this morning at our breakfast ar Rosie’s where we all realised how far we have come over such a dark time, and how much brighter the future is before us. Not because our circumstances changed, but because we kept plodding on in spite of our circumstances. True Strength - mental and physical is gained in the ordinary when surrounded and inspired by extraordinary people. Love my tribe!