It all makes sense | Elin Härkönens blogg

. I. A M. S O. M O T I V A T E D ! That little period of my "motivation drop" didn't last long... haha! It feels like I want to climb the walls in here, I just want to run, jump, sprint, climb, lift heavy, do acrobatics, play and have FUN. I want to be active, I want to do the what I love the most. So good to have this feeling back, (which I normally ALWAYS have), but on the same time it is a bit frustrated because I am still sick and should just be resting....... Come on immune system, repair... get strong and make me healthy and ready to work HARD again!! ~

I don't know if I wrote it here on the blog, but last week was the first time I had lack of motivation for training. It was such an unusual feeling for me and I couldn't understand what was wrong..?!

"Why do I not feel like working out? Why do I not come up with any fun workouts? Why do I just want to stay in bed? What am I training towards?" The fact that I had these thoughts made me really sad.. It was so NOT me to think like that. I just didn't feel like doing anything. And I couldn't understand WHY.

~ Well now when I have been thinking through the situation it all make sense. My back was really bad last week, I had more pain than what I have had for years.

PAIN = brings you down = lack of motivation

And I also know that I had a virus in my body last week, which shown up last Friday when I got fever, sore throat, nose and all that... With these conditions it is not that strange to have a little bit less motivation, right? ~ Why I am writing this is because I am sure there are people like me out there who are way to hard on themselves sometimes.. If you really don't feel like working out and you normally do, it is probably just your body's way to say STOP. If you have more pain than usual and training just makes it worse, please REST. That is probably also a way your body is trying to say STOP. Next time my body give me these signs I will try to listen and not push myself through it. Because now with the fact in my hand I know I should have listen more carefully. Well at least I learned from it. Now I just want to get rid of this cold!! #Breakitandyouwillmakeit