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It's been a very busy week, but that's no surprise. I knew Sunday, that this week was going to be off the scale crazy and that it would leave me in a challenging position. My challenge this week, absolutely no time to schedule my daily exercise for five consecutive days!
I can already hear the sympathetic comments of many......"you poor guy" and "so hard done-by, how do you get by?" So, before we start the violins of empathy and break the Kleenex out to help hold the tears back, let me explain further. I learned a long time ago through ADD coaching and self growth, the most important priority in my life has to me. I don't mean this from the perspective of being selfish or self centered. This is about taking care of me to ensure I'm in a good place and in turn, capable and able to give myself to the other parts of my life that require me to do so. Things like career, parenting, friendship or a relationship. Being on day four of no exercise for a guy with ADD means I'm climbing the walls right now!!! I'm going insane!! I'm not getting that physical or psychological release. I'm not getting that air and blood pumping through my body and brain. My brain isn't producing the normal levels of dopamine I manufacture every day based on my typical exercise routine.
For anyone with ADD, exercise is such an important part of life. No matter what level you are capable of working out at, if it's a five minute walk or a five hour bike ride......the need for exercise is paramount! So, knowing I would be going through a five day period of not having the chance to exercise, I had to develop a strategy to get through this time. I've focused on staying very close to my nutritional habits with food and water. I've given myself a few breaks throughout the day to ease the burden and I've made sure bed time was early each night. Gotta get that six to eight hours of beauty sleep a night ;)
Here I am, it's the last day of my five days with no exercise and I've been coping pretty well. However, I'm ready to walk straight up a wall, climb a mountain and wrestle a bear! Tomorrow is dopamine day!!! I can't wait to get back on track, I'm sure things will start to feel normal again once I'm a few minutes into my anticipated run.
