Finding Balance
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 4:55AM While competing it can be tough to find balance between your training, family, friends, and your regular job. So often, we start off juggling our strict training regimes pretty well and throughout our preps as everything becomes a bit more intense (i.e. our workouts and diets) it can be quite exhausting to also satisfy everyone else in our life. But let’s be honest, without our friends and family, we have nothing!
If you aren’t enjoying life through your prep, you may be putting too much unnecessary stress on yourself. If you allow yourself to have a still have a life outside of the gym, by fighting the urge to hide away because you are tired, hungry, grumpy ect… and just be yourself, by going out and having a little fun, you may notice that your results will come even faster. You may even notice more significant changes in your physique, mostly related to your cortisol levels!
Balancing everything out can be tough, but you need to sit down and figure everything out because without the balance you will wind up losing out on what this journey is all about. Can you still go to a party? Yes, you just can’t eat the cake, chips, alcohol ect…, but you can still partake in all of the great conversation. Can you still go out dancing with the girls? Absolutely, you may not be able to drink, but you can have fun without it J Instead of putting your life on hold during your prep get out there and flaunt your hot, lean body! Don’t just wait to strut the stage, go strut the town! It takes so much work, dedication, determination and persistence to get up on that stage, why wait for those few minutes, when you have 12 weeks! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am going to show off my hard work, if people judge me, oh well! I am going to be ME and continue living this life I have built for myself! I will prep myself harder than ever, through the assistance of the best coach, Kim Oddo, and I will make time for all of the other important things in life!
Jessica Jordan
Reader Comments (4)
Can we please live near each other so we can go out dancing and steal all the boys' hearts?!?!
I'm in my last month of prep and honestly, the diet is making me slightly miserable. I really do miss sushi and the occasional cookie or bowl of cereal. However, the weekends and the social thing is so not an issue for me! I have a birthday party at a bar every single weekend of this month, plus I'll be hanging at a bar all day long Marathon Monday in Boston while my boyfriend is running and all of my friends are drinking beers.
I really don't miss drinking. Last weekend at a going away party a couple of people asked if being there was hard, not being able to drink or eat anything. It really wasn't. They had pizza (I am super picky about my pizza anyway, so I didn't want theirs), chips, dips and junk food... eeew... and they were all drinking beer and playing beer pong. I don't miss drinking at all. So it was easy. And when for one second it does become difficult, I am always so happy to know I won't be hungover in hot yoga the next morning or feel like crap when everyone else does!
Jessica's Blog is so valuable that I'd love to receive further Blogs of hers. I have already shared her "Finding Balance" Blog. Thanks Jessica.
Thank you both for commenting! I am so glad that you find my writing so inspiring, it makes what I do that much more enjoyable! I appreciate you all!
I have just recently become interested in being a bikini competitor. I have begun a training program at home, and am hopeful to be at the shape to compete in the next year. Its always great to see posts like this one showing how everyone struggles and must find their balance.