The last couple of months I’ve been feeling stagnant.  I injured my knee and haven’t been motivated to work out.

In December, I decided that enough was enough and that I would push myself. I joined Equinox in Woodbury and started training with a personal trainer two days a week.  On the other days, I decided I would force myself to either run or go spinning.

Every day it’s a struggle.  I have an internal fight with myself.  I don’t want to go and work out. I’d rather do anything else!

But yet, once I push myself, I end up taking that class or running on the treadmill and when I complete my workout, I feel amazing.  I feel like I can breathe better, my stress level goes down and I’m totally relaxed.

The trainer started to teach me how to box.  I always wanted to be a boxer.  I used to admire photos of my grandfather boxing in the 1920’s and 30’s and thought that it looked so cool.

The other day, I had my first lesson. I’m probably one of those uncoordinated people, because when he taught me the four boxing punches, I just couldn’t get them right. A hook? Cross? Jab? Upper?

“Now do them altogether,” he said.

I tried but I was jabbing when I should have been crossing and so on.  I joked to the trainer and told him this was the reason why I was always last to be on a sports team in school. He smiled.  (I knew he was agreeing with me internally but knew that if he agreed externally, my motivation would go way down!)

So what I’m looking for from you are strategies and tips on getting myself to go work out.  I know when I’m finished I feel amazing so why is it so hard to get there?

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For the last three weeks, I’ve been getting up at the crack of dawn and feeling compelled to crow like a rooster – “cockadoodle do….”

But I don’t.  I’m not sure what’s holding me back but I know if I do that, I’ll get thrown out of the house by my kids and my husband!  So I hold it in.

Why like a rooster you ask? Well, the last few weeks, I’ve been getting rooster injections into my knee.

Apparently, these injections puts a natural pad between my knee so that when I exercise, I have a natural cushion.  I’ve been going to this doc in the city.  It’s a bit of an ordeal but I’m hoping that it will work and I’ll be able to run again.

Marti, let’s sign up for the next half marathon!

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The other day, I attended the Long Island Association annual breakfast meeting with both Nassau County and Suffolk County Executives – Ed Mangano and Steven Bellone.

I was really impressed with both of them.

As they spoke, I checked in on Foursquare.  I noticed that there were three other people signed in from a room of more than 500 people. I wondered why no one else checked in.

Ed Mangano signed in, but I don’t think he actually checked in because I wrote him a message and he didn’t respond to me.  It led me to believe that although he may be on this site, he has someone else managing it.  (If I were County Executive, I would certainly check and respond to comments, but I guess that’s me…)

I looked at Twitter to see if anyone was writing anything about what the two execs were saying. You know what I found?

NOTHING!

I was shocked.  We live in a digital age and here there are 500 people in the room and no one has anything to say?  I really found that hard to believe.

I also checked out their Facebook pages and you know what I found?  A lot of self-promotion!  I’m surprised that they didn’t learn anything from President Barak Obama.  He and his staff knew how to engage an audience and develop a following.
I have nothing bad to say about either Ed or Steve.  I think highly of both of them.  They are both good people.  But when Ed says that he’s gotten a lot of flack about proposals, don’t you think that wouldn’t be the case if he knew how to use social media the right way?

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