Flexibility is the key to consistency

My kids came up over the weekend it was my Daughter’s birthday and we had a party planned for Saturday. We woke up early to get everything ready for her party. The two of us went to the store to pick up her cake and get a couple of other things and the other three kids stayed home to clean the house. (The two oldest wound up playing HALO instead) My daughter and I got back from the store and everything was going great until 1pm I went downstairs to check on some stuff in my office and my carpet was wet not just wet but like stepping on a sponge wet. I opened the water heater closet and found the water heater was leaking and leaking bad. I called my Landlord who also in my Dad told him what I had found and he said he’d be by in a while to look at it. So I turned off the hot water and waited till he came with the shop vac. I moved all the furniture out of the area and when my dad arrived I began to pull the water out of the carpet. It turned out that the water heater needed to be replaced and he couldn’t get on till Monday. No big deal I thought we can go that long without hot water  besides I take contrast showers all the time anyway I’m used to cold showers, and we can just live off of paper plates and all that. So my dad left I finished up pulling the water out of the carpet and came upstairs to get a drink and my phone rang. While I’m on the phone my oldest son yells up the stairs that his little brother is throwing up all over the downstairs bathroom.” Great just what I need” I thought I hung up on who I was talking to rushed downstairs to survey the damage and to make sure he’s ok. Luckily he didn’t get anything on him…. Yet… I get him all cleaned up and carry him up to his room and get him tucked into bed and resting comfortably.  Two hours I think to myself I haven’t even done my workout yet and I have so much to do. I have to pick up my Fiancée from work still order the pizza and finish cleaning the house. Two hours later everything is done and my family is over to the house for the party we had a good time and my son rested comfortably in his room until the party was over. He again started to throw up and continued until around 3am when he finally started to feel better which was a good thing we were running out of towels and blankets and had no way to wash anything (remember the water heater from earlier?) Sunday morning 9am. My son comes in and wakes me up asking if there is any pizza left from the party he hadn’t thrown up in several hours so I figured it’d be ok for him to have a slice. He ate that and then wanted a leftover piece of cake and some milk which he did great with so he was feeling better finally and we could finish the weekend on a good note. Anyway the kids went home on Sunday night my new water heater was installed on Monday and I finally have all the dishes and all of the laundry caught up from the weekend.

How does any of this relate to a fitness blog? (I can read minds as well) even though I missed my scheduled workout on Saturday I was able to push things around and took Saturday as my rest day and did my workout on Sunday after the kids went back to their mothers house. If you are determined to get healthy and improve your health you won’t let anything stand in your way. The key is to be consistent even if it means pushing things around on your schedule and working out at odd times of the day or in odd places. Don’t be afraid to be flexible with your workout schedule or you will start missing workouts when life gets in the way.