Yesterday my daughter came down while I was finishing working out. Usually I am done as they are waking up but if they are up they always come down to watch/join/make me nervous they are going to drop a weight on themselves or me.
But my daughter’s first sentence really stuck with me. “Ma you working out, your strong, I see your muscles”. This is what my daughter saw and what she views as the reason of why I am doing it, which I couldn’t be happier. She didn’t see it as torture (though she did tell me your face is getting red), or doing it to be smaller.
I have tried to instill in my children is that we exercise/stay active to get healthy and stay healthy. Something that Hazel has taught me never to take for granted. No ones health is a guarantee.
We may never be the instagram fitness model but that we are always going to be able to hold our own. I joke but I mean it, I don’t want to be the smallest woman in the room. I want to be the one that if you looking to see who you can stuff in your trunk, I am last on the list. The pillar of strength and not just muscular strength but strong willed as well. By doing hard things we make ourselves stronger and exercise is just one example of that. But it does teach us that lesson.
I want Hazel to be the strong, fierce one in the room, always. And I want Arlo to always know that women are just as strong as men, respect that and appreciate it. Haha and never to underestimate a strong willed girl/woman!
So the next time you don’t feel like exercising don’t look at it as torture, look at it as finding your strength. To make yourself the pillar in the room. To make yourself a force to reckon with. To show yourself that you can do hard things.
*I also learned that you too can have a fan club, you just need to birth them first haha and yes she is using a miniband as a head band…..
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