I always try to get six days in every week because it allows a full week’s workout cycle and one full day of full body muscle recovery. I typically like to schedule this workout cycle from Monday to Sat with Sun off or Sunday to Fri with Sat off. In theory both of these workout cycles sound great and both of these schedules on paper look solid but in reality they are both flawed because they rely on me making into the gym on Sat or Sun. On Friday when I’m leaving the gym I’m thinking to myself, “alright man tomorrow when you wake up, just throw back some protein water, hit the gym first thing and enjoy the rest of the day.” But when I wake up on Saturday I think to myself, “I’m already sweating tequila and I haven’t even started working out” or I think “man I just worked a 55 hour week; I can do my sixth day tomorrow on Sun and then start the six day cycle going form Sun to Fri.” And if I think the later I will wake up on Sunday and think to myself “Ah man I have a full week of work starting tomorrow I should either have a crazy wild extended weekend and suffer through Monday or I should sit on my butt and do nothing for a change and truly enjoy the day.” Both of these scenarios are killers of my 6 day cycles, which ultimately makes me disappointed and angry with myself. But they only become killers if I let them.

Now, I am fully aware that not everyone spends there weekends boozing and being counter productive like I find myself doing every so often, but I am also aware that both Saturday and Sunday are the weekend days, and no matter how you look at them, you don’t want to be doing work. You deserve that time off, truly you do, but you also know how mad you are going to be with yourself if you break your routine cycles for reasons that are trite and mundane. Lately I haven’t missed a cycle, but it’s not because I stopped getting Mexican food at 3 am on a Fri/Sat Night/Morning or that I started writing my congressmen on ways they could improve the country in my spare time. I am still that same unproductive wreck from 6 pm on Friday to 7 am on Monday morning, the only difference is that I actually stepped foot into the gym. I know this sounds like the dumbest thing ever but it is truly the only way for me to get into the gym on the weekends. I can sit there and come up with a million and two excuses as to why I shouldn’t work out on my days off, but if I set foot in the actual gym its like any other day. For example I was, for a lack of better words, hung over about five Saturdays ago, when I woke up. My head was pounding and my stomach was more than edgy and I told myself just go up to the gym and try to at least get half a work out in. The first two sets were like kicking bricks, they just plain hurt. But after that I felt a whole lot better. My body began to detoxify and my morale jumped up several levels. Not only did I complete my cycle and my workout but I had a great rest of the day because I didn’t feel like such a pile. The same thing happened to me last week, but I wasn’t hung over. Last Saturday morning I woke up, dead sober from not drinking the night before, and I just went to the gym before I could convince myself otherwise. Ever since that Saturday morning five weeks back I have yet to miss a cycle, because the first thing I do when I wake up is go straight to the gym and if once I am in the gym I don’t feel like I can do a whole work out, I don’t. And I am perfectly ok with that, because I physically didn’t have the strength not because I was just being a lazy oaf. So if you struggle with these weekend work outs, just don’t let time kill you, get up get into the gym and get on with your day…you will feel a lot better unless you really did drink too much the night before and in that case…well I’m sorry and you should seek counseling…j/k but seriously).