I am sore and I am tired, but I am still moving. I have missed a few days of posting to my blog, but it's for good reasons. I was off for a few days and while I was off, I had an experience. A friend of mine called me up on Monday evening to play some basketball. I haven't played basketball in over a year. I told him I think I still have it and I went to play. We ended up playing some high school guys, we beat up on them, and then I was back at home. When I got home, my back was aching, my muscles were sore and I felt like crap. The next morning was even worse. Every muscle in my body was hurting including my butt cheeks. I only felt this way because I hadn't used any of the muscles that I used playing basketball in a long time. So I told myself that in order to get through the pain, I had to workout just as hard again the next day. I pulled out my Perfect Sit-Up and my Perfect Push-up and I went to work! I did push ups until I couldn't do them anymore and I did sit ups until I almost threw up. When I finished, I was worse than what I started. My entire back was sore, my chest was sore and my abs were hurting, but my mind was relieved. It was relieved because I knew that I was making a difference with my body. Even though it felt like I was destroying it, I wasn't.
I was revitalizing it and sometimes that effort requires pain. Yes I am hurting right now as I am typing, but it's some of the best hurt you can find. It's bearable and it's motivating. This is how it is in life. When your doing right and you feel like it's getting bad, that's only because it's about to get a WHOLE lot better. But in order for that to happen, you have to keep pushing and doing what you know is the right thing. The results probably won't show right off, but you know you're doing it right when you start to feel the pain. I think God instilled pain in us to alarm us from harming ourselves. Whenever something is wrong, we feel pain and that let's us know that we need to get checked out. Pain also lets us know when the body is healing as well, we just have to know the difference in the feeling and the only way to know that is to push our body to the limits.
It's going to be rough when you first start doing something you haven't done in a long time. It's going to make you tired. It's going to make you want to stop. But you have to push yourself until you can't push yourself anymore. Then one day you will look into the mirror and tell yourself, "it was so worth the pain."
"How can there be a limit when you have nothing to measure it by-GET WITH IT!"-K.J Swint
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