One of the best decisions I made after moving to Canada was starting to work out.
I always hated work out and physical activities and considered myself more than a lazy person. But maybe more than being lazy I would say it has been always a burden and have given me zero to little enjoyment and engagement. I would rather enjoy more using my brain and activities that are intellectually stimulating rather than heavily physical and sportive.
Thus I hate gyms and sports since I remember as a kid and I think this has had a few draw backs on my health and confidence.
I understand that we are inherently different. I might enjoy reading a whole long novel so much while someone else find it so boring to finish one paragraph. Writing is something I enjoy as well and can’t imagine living without it.
And so, since I moved to Canada I decided to change my lifestyle and as well my identity. I remember I started doing this more and more seriously and for about a year I was constantly hitting the gym.
Three main reasons were what helped me to start to going to the gym and eventually for other three main reasons I gave up until now that trying to go back to my previous gym routine.
Moving to Vancouver was a great inspiration. A beautiful modern city, surrounded by nature was the main reason I wanted to start working out and become more active. After all, it is one of the most liveable cities and municipalities encourage using bike and public transport (One other reason is that it is very unaffordable to have a car here).
Second reason was that I wanted to boost my confidence and become more physically attractive and healthy as well. I knew that I had to put on some decent amount of work and that is when I decided to go for it and do my best.
Last but not least was a very modern public gym facility in the vicinity of where I first landed in Canada and it was an amazing spend some time and work out.
That was when I initially started and glad I continued, so much regrets since I stopped going to the gym.
Why I stopped?
First was I moved to another city and far away from my favourite gym and that took away from me the motivation I had for working out and going to the gym as I was so conditioned to that space and that environment for working out. Even I had a certain route for going for a walk or run and all was ruined after I decided to move. Which I think it was overall a bad decision.
Second was I took it so hard on myself. I was calorie counting and dieting at the same time and that was really hard during studies, working a physical job and at the same time trying to go to the gym most week days. I initially had a lot of energy, because I moved to a new country, with a world of opportunities in front of me and I was so excited that managed to burned out all of that passion and energy.
Last was association and socialization with people that working out and eating healthy wasn’t a core value for them. And it was mainly my fault that I openly talked about that instead of shutting my mouth and keep doing what I was doing. That is not only limited to working out, but I believe shutting your mouth and being able to do so is an important underrated skill that people learn it a hard way. I strongly believe that you should give people enough information that they really need to know. They are not supposed to know everything, and they can easily kill your motivation and energy for doing the work.
My final word is that we all make mistakes. We all start new projects and in the middle we fail, we collapse, we give up. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It has to keep going forward. We need to have to courage to start again, stand up and start again. No matter how hard it is. we just need to start.