Once again, I am back at the running and working out again. Yes, I fell off, but it happens. You just can't stay away from it. I also started drinking protein shakes as well. While I was running I began to think about how painful it is when you’re starting over when working out. The first couple of steps when you first start jogging are rough. The next few steps are worst, and the last few are worst than any of them. Bottom line, it's hard and it hurts. But you have to take into consideration what's happening to your body. First, if your body isn't use to exercising, it's going to react to it. The first reaction is pain. Pain is not always bad. In this scenario, it's good. Once your body gets use to exercising, there will be no more pain. This is usually why most people stop working out. They feel this pain and think that they will hurt something more if they keep going. Well, I am here to tell you, you won't hurt anything more; you will only help something...your body!
You have to persevere through the pain in order to make things better. When you feel like stopping, you have to keep pushing. While I was running this morning, my knees started aching and I wanted to stop. They were hurting so bad until I changed the way I was running. I refuse to stop because I wanted to go ahead and get it over. You can't let pain stop you. Think about this for a minute. When doctors operate on people to make them better, they tear things, break things, cut things, etc. When that person wakes up from the surgery, they are in pain! They are bruised up and they have to endure the pain for weeks or even months before they can get back to normal. This is the same way working out is. You have to go through it to make it better.
To really understand it, think about this. Jesus had the power to turn water into wine to make a little food into a lot of food. He had all of this power but yet when he was hanging on the cross, he just suffered. He had to endure the pain in order to make things better. So, I look at it this way, if he could endure the pain that he endured, then the pain that we endure from working out, is nothing. This lets you know that pain is ok to endure if it's for a good reason or good cause. Working out is a good cause!
"Pain is the only sign that lets your body know that change is happening"-K.J Swint
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