A brief first-person monologue by Katie McManus about her recurring tendency to over-plan workouts. She outlines an ambitious weekly plan (gym three times, additional runs and yoga), then realizes the schedule overlaps and is unrealistic for a non-athlete who sits most of the day.
So I have to catch myself on this all the time. And this happens at least once a month. I'll make a workout plan for myself. Three days in the gym. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Here's the workout plan I'm going to follow. Oh, I have four more days in the week. Great. What if I ran two of them and did yoga or Pilates the other two? Oh, but now I want to look at the schedule for that yoga studio. They have a yoga class at night, but that's on a Tuesday or Thursday. Okay, cool. I can do two workouts that day. Oh, yeah. Well, if. Now if I want to do. If I want to run two times a week now, it kind of has to overlap with this thing. Okay, so I'll work out three times that day. Two times this day. That's not gonna happen. I'm not an athlete. I'm a normal person who sits most of the day.