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Instructions: create or pick one or more reasons to train that have personal meaning. Write them down in a list, and make several copies if useful. Post the lists as reminders for why you are getting after it. A pdf version will also be available soon.
I'm training in order to:
• Feel energetic and alive
• Feel and look attractive
• Do well or better in a race or other competition
• Keep up with somebody (friend, kid, grandkid, other)
• Enjoy challenging physical activities
• Bond with a dog or give it a serious workout
• Get or stay lean
• Prepare for zombie and/or alien invasions
• Increase productivity at school or work
• Increase mental clarity
• Increase brain function (ability to concentrate, solve
• problems, etc.)
• Make the _____ team (name the sport and level)
• Have more fun in sports
• Make some kind of comeback
• Get better at a sport or other physical activity (like being able
• to ski more terrain)
• Dunk a basketball
• Drive a golf ball farther
• Climb things (mountains, stairs, hills, rocks, cliffs, frozen
• waterfalls, etc.)
• Rehab or avoid an injury
• Get rid of back pain
• Break a cycle of getting sick or injured
• Prevent or eliminate stress
• Improve immune system function/get sick less
• Feel good about self/build self-esteem
• Learn about perceived and “actual” physical (and mental) limitations
• Be able to pick up heavy things (toddlers, weights, loads of wood, etc.)
• Move faster than ever (or than before) - on foot, on a bike, in water, etc.
• Enjoy nature
• Enliven physically intimate activities
• Enjoy more amounts or kinds of foods while staying in energy balance