Do You Have A Holiday Hangover?

Do you have a holiday hangover?

Pbbbt, how the fuck would I know?!?!

You having one or not depends on how familiar the following familiar scenario sounds.

And what exactly is that familiar scenario?!

Well, the familiar scenario is that the holidays are over but you’re still laying on the couch and cursing Santa to high hell for not bringing the discipline to help you get back into the gym after taking some time off because it was impossible to work out during the holidays.¹

Not only is working out during the holidays an impossible feat a lot of people somehow don’t find all that impossible but you definitely have a holiday hangover and should take the following steps to get back on track!

GET OVER IT

The technology for time travel has existed for years now but that’s info you don’t have the security clearance for and should probably pretend I never told you. Anyway, because time travel doesn’t exist and you can’t fix what’s already happened in the past, dwelling in guilt about the time out of the gym serves no use.

TOUCH YOUR (INNER) SELF

Get on that new age shit about remembering your “why”, the reason you were going to the gym in the first place before you let your very busy imaginary life get in the way.

FEAR NOT

If what’s keeping you out of the gym is how hard it’s going to be to get back to where you left off, just remember that you haven’t lost much strength — not that you were ever strong to begin with.²

PUT IT ON THE SCHED’

Set a gym date with a specific time on your calendar and don’t cancel it like people have a tendency to do when it comes to doing shit with you.

DON’T BE NORMAL

If your regular number of training days is five, for example, instead of trying to muster up fucks 5x during the week, only commit to having to make it to the gym on one day then keep adding one more day every week until you’re at five.³

Glossary: discipline, gym, work out

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Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.