I went to my current* favorite gym class after finishing my assignment and working on my research paper. It is a high energy, high rep weight training group class. I am motivated by groups of sweaty people...what can I say. There is always a lot of people in the class and as such a swarm and often a bottleneck as everyone attempts to put their equipment away at the same time without poking eyes out with bars, or smacking others in the face with mats. Unlike how I try to carry 8 bags of groceries into the house from the car I attempted mindfulness at the end of class. I estimated the area that would have the least traffic in the put-away zone and I returned that (cardio deck) first. Then I gauged the success at carrying everything else over...low...so I took my time in gathering up the appropriate items to put away in some logical sequence. When I arrived with my hands full in the last trip, I was carrying an armful of heavy weights, some gadgets that stop the weights falling off the bar and the four stack of risers. As the weights were the heaviest I attempted to put those away first. Unfortunately, with full hands and sticky center pieces they wouldn't neatly fit on the rod. So, I had to re-evaluate. I swiftly realized that if I put the four stack away first I would free up my other hand to assist me with noodling with the weights. Odd place for an epiphany but I realized that sometimes I want to drop that heavy thing that I perceive as weighing me down. But if I consider alternatives, If I think of an alternate plan...put down some lighter things first, do those small things...then when I arrive at the weights I am well able to support them onto the rod...without dropping them, without damaging anything. And those weights that were so heavy in one hand, fit neatly in to two.
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AuthorI used to live in Canada, work in forestry and dream about a career in medicine. Now I am studying Nursing and Midwifery as an adult. Archives
September 2017
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