Regularity
and punctuality are two virtues which I have always been chasing but could
never get hold of it. This has been demonstrated through so many things in my
life. I could never get up early any day and would always be punished for coming
late to school. I have almost missed my flight couple of times, almost missed
bus and train countless number of times. I have always ended up been SIT i.e.
Somehow In Time (a mutation of JIT where the delay is unintentional and
unplanned).
This has
always failed me in having a long lasting fitness regime. Long back I tried
working out in a gym every day. I started doing it in the morning. By the time
I had barely finished two weeks, I realized that I got up late 4 days and could
work out for barely half an hour. For two days, I got up so late that forget
about working out, I had to go to college without even taking bath. So I
started working out in the evening. But even that could last for hardly 2
months while bunking gym in between for all kinds of reasons including stomach
pain, fever, raining outside, going out with friends, attending wedding
receptions, birthday parties, watching movie, finishing college submissions on
last day, etc. Gyming in the evening meant that I had to take shower after
that, which meant that bathing in the morning is not essential. And that meant that
I could sleep till last in the morning. :D Then came my university exams and that
provided me a perfect excuse to take a break from gym. Never thought that break
would be so long that it would last till today :(
Then it was
the turn of jogging and cycling. Simple routines constituting repetition of a
physical activity again and again till you get exhausted. But that could not last
long as well. Now I don’t even remember why I stopped jogging altogether.
The latest
victim has been swimming. Started it with lots of enthusiasm and noise and it
fizzled out as quickly as it can. Barely two weeks into swimming, had I hurt my
2 fingers and knee. The latest injury has been to my left leg where I got a cut
on my leg thanks to a broken tile in the swimming pool. Now it’s been almost 3
weeks since the cut has healed. But I have not even gone near the pool.
My dad, couples
of friends and Salman Khan through all his shirtless movie appearances keep on encouraging
me to start exercising and maintain a fitness regime. Also the fear factor
plays its role here. The site of pot belly, overweight people in the office
also makes me think about it. But it hasn’t worked for a long time till now.
I happened to read an article in one of the
issues of Men’s Health magazine last week.
That makes me think of doing Yoga now. God knows for how many days that will last
even if I start doing it at all ! Fingers crossed !
