As I was going through my upper body weight workout this morning, I was thinking about how hard it was & how sore I will be tomorrow.  But I got through it & I was happy with what I had accomplished (I was able to do a few more reps on some tougher exercises I just started!).


As I started doing the household chores, I was reminded of WHY I am exercising and pushing myself physically...


Last week I was at Costco by myself & knew we needed a couple of bags of dog food. Normally, I wait until my husband can join me on a Costco run so that he can load the 40 lb. dog food bags into the cart, the car & then bring them into the house.  I decided that day that I'd get the bags of food on my own.  I was so excited that I was able to lift the bags off the pallet, then up & into the basket!  TWICE!


Today I saw that the bags were not emptied into the dog food containers as they should be.  Again, this is a chore I normally leave to my husband due to the weight of the bags.  I figured, if I was able to lift those bags into the cart & then into my car, I could just as well pour the food into the containers.  And I did!


Seems like a small accomplishment, lifting bags of dog food.  But the point of exercising is so that I am ABLE to do these type of things on my own.  Functional Fitness--I love it! :)