Your Tuesday challenge…get to Rush Center for our regularly scheduled Tuesday 6:15 training session. If you’re part of the 99% who have a wee bit of trouble sometimes getting yourself to your scheduled workout, do this:
Create for yourself two cues that will help you make Queerfit part of your Tuesday evening routine. The cues can be super simple – if you keep your calendar on your smartphone, for example, you can enter queerfit in as a recurring Tuesday night appointment and set a special alarm to ring 30 minutes before. Your cue can be practical – you can pick out your workout clothes & shoes the night before, fold them neatly and set them by the door. You can pack a snack on Tuesday mornings that you know will help with your workout. You can get fancy with your cues, by asking one of your teammates to text you something inspirational an hour before the workout, or by changing your work schedule so you have plenty of time to make it to queerfit. Your cue can even be purely mental – when you wake up on Tuesdays, you can say out loud with as much enthusiasm as you can muster, “It’s Tuesday, I get to go to queerfit today!” No matter that at that moment, you’d rather eat an warthog than go exercise. It’s just a cue.
We’ll get into the psychology of routines & habits & all that later. For Tuesday, your challenge is to create a couple of cues. Post your cues to the comments.
9 responses to “Tue. – 1/20 The queerfit routine”
Cindy Lutenbacher
January 19th, 2015 at 23:07
Okay, so now you’ll know the dirt: I…um…use a paper calendar next to my computer. It’s a calendar of puppies that I buy at Dollar Tree every year. I write “Qfit 6:15” on every Tuesday (and Qfit 10:00 every Saturday). Sometimes, when things are hectic, I tape a piece of scrap paper with said cue on my kitchen cabinet over my shrine, the coffee pot.
Now you know. Promise me you’ll still love me in the morning.
efiada77
January 20th, 2015 at 13:29
I have reminders for QF on my Gmail calendar (phone & computer) through April and I made a deal with myself to at least lay out my workout clothes or put them suckers on when I don’t feel like working out! I also have to step outside of my private, introverted self and tell somebody–makes me feel even more obligated to keep my word to more than just myself.
Roan
January 20th, 2015 at 14:30
Cindy I have a paper planner! With queerfit written in by hand. Whatever, technology….
My other cue is more along the lines of waking up with a dorky grin saying “I get to go to QF today!”
On that note, I’m still in NY and I’ll miss y’all tonight ❤
Cindy Lutenbacher
January 20th, 2015 at 17:32
Roan, clearly, we were separated at birth. Be well in NYC, and be safe in your travels home!
Roan
January 20th, 2015 at 21:10
Haha Cindy, yes!!
eunicehcho
January 20th, 2015 at 18:56
Sorry to miss Qf tonight. I got food poisoning last night and haven’t been able to eat today. 😦
Lisa
January 20th, 2015 at 23:07
Oh no! Hope you feel better soon Eunice!!
Cecilia
January 21st, 2015 at 01:13
Feel better Eunice!
I too have a QF92 alarm on my calendar through April for Tuesday & Saturdays, with a 30 minute reminder to end what I’m doing. I sometimes do “workout attire Tuesday’s” to further help out.
I’ll miss folks Saturday & Tuesday… See y’all next week!
Taliba Obuya
January 21st, 2015 at 22:56
Routine was good! Woke up good sore from the dead lift.