My fitness wish list

This weeks Wellness Wednesday prompt ‘my fitness wish list‘, kind of left me pondering, so why not tackle the difficult one? The real questions would be ‘why is that a difficult question for me‘? ‘What do I wish for in fitness‘?

Ideally I would rewind the clock, I mean can I wish for anything? Can I go back to that young girl (little Mackenzie) and beg her not to throw away her dancing life. To train harder and fiercer than she can imagine. I love to dance, rhythm is inside me, I hear music and I move, I think most of us do. As a young dancer I was determined, my strive for perfection was so strong, and I was extremely competitive. I was winning medals from a very young age. I can remember feeling so alive when I danced.

The thing is I gave it up, (and I could tell you I have reasons, and I do, realistic and good ones), but the truth is I could have gone back to it, but somewhere back then I lost my way, I lost all my confidence. I became the girl that ran away from competition,. I also became the girl that ‘gave up too easily’ on many things, most of all I gave up on myself. I was scared, I was scared that I would fail. That I couldn’t live up to the impossible expectations I set for myself as a young girl.

I don’t wish I could go back and tell little me to keep dancing so I could have been the best, what I wish is that I had just kept exercising. I took on Basketball for a while. Dad installed the hoop in our backyard and I got a new ball, and I even made the team! Not because I was good, they just had to take anyone who tried out. I was very short and scared to catch a ball, so yep that didn’t go far! So I set my sights on bike riding and rode everywhere, to school, to friends, around the local tracks, I even rode all the way to the city with my friend, and then we flirted with the cute police men and they gave us train money to get home. After that bike riding was just for fun, but I was not destined for competition or a triathlon.

Then I set my sights on swimming, my brother James, 8 years my senior, would pick my bestie and I up from school and drive us to the pool. We would do lap after lap, and then eat the delicious chocolate brownies from Mrs Fields Cookies as our work out treat. (Trust me if you know Mrs Fields brownies or cookies you would understand).

Then I tried the gym and aerobics with my sister, loved it, I was in my element and looked and felt amazing, but hanging out with my boyfriend and the football team kind of distracted me after a while.

Throughout University, I became a gym junkie and was always at the beach, my body looked great, but my heart and soul were in a troubled place. Over the years my fitness has gone up and down. I ended up on bed rest for most of my last pregnancy due to a heart condition, and I guess that still plays in the back of my mind. I actually have a fear of exercise, not gentle exercise, I love to stretch and do yoga, walk and swim, but anything cardio worries me.

So now I have gone through the process of thinking this all out, I guess I now know what my fitness wish list is.

Stop holding myself back! Stop being afraid! Exercise! Get fit! Feel alive!

Stop saying “I need to exercise”, and say “I am exercising”!

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Life is truly a gift, life beautiful when you are happy, you shine, when you are healthy you glow. So I challenge you, along with myself to exercise every day this week, leave me comments, or tweet me @MacGlanville, you can even follow me on Instagram and posts your fitness pics to me! To let me know how you are going, and I will do the same. Let’s see how we feel next Wednesday!

Thanks for joining me this wellness Wednesday, love Mackenzie xx

Dance like you are free, dance in your soul and let your spirit soar, for you are beauty encompassed in dance, you are a star, a light and you shine like Heaven’s glow, sun about your wings lighting up this world, with movement, with freedom, with dance. So dance, dance and be free, glow and shine and love, and allow your spirit to soar. Mackenzie Glanville

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