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If you took Thanksgiving off from working out, you may have some catching up to do. You probably ate too much, rested too much, and therefore found the week afterward to have been extremely difficult. But it has been a week since then, so you should now be back to doing what you usually do. That slow down did not have to happen. You could have worked out Thanksgiving Day. If you would have, you would not have eaten the third helpings and the pieces of both the pumpkin and the pecan pies. You might even have gone out for a brisk half hour after dinner walk. That would have left you at the right place for the next day's workout. It also would have made this last week far easier. Talk like this is considered by many to be nothing other than the laying on of a guilt trip. That became very unfashionable in the seventies when it was commonplace to think that we all were suffering from having to do far too much for others, and therefore not enough for ourselves. When it comes to recovering from the holidays, however, it is difficult to see how taking off to over eat and sit around is at all something anyone would really want to do. Michael Phelps multi-Olympic gold medalist could not remember when he had a day off,and it was clear that he didn't care. His interviewer was shocked at this, appearing to feel sorry for someone so driven. But Phelps really did not care, because he is a champion, who loves what he does. That means his daily workouts, or athletic lifestyle as much as standing on the platform at the final ceremonies. Most of us do not understand working out like he does. We think it is drudgery, if we even do it at all. Generally that's because we do it for others like our MDs, who threaten us with diabetes and heart trouble if we don't drop the excess poundage. In some cases it's even for our spouses who want us to look more like we did when we first started dating. They provide are the real reasons that the holidays are so welcomed. No one, not even them, can expect us to do anything so onerous on these special days off. All due respect to the Normal Majority of folks who are like this. But special appreciation should be shown for those like Phelps who want to do what they excel at. If more of us were like that, there would be far less gritting our teeth to get back up to speed after a big holiday blowout. Then we might all get more trim, resulting in far less diabetes, heart and cholesterol difficulties.
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