What Do You Do When You're Not Feeling It?

For one reason or another, today I just wasn't feeling it.  We all have those days.   Days when our bodies are tired and minds are busy and it seems like all our motivation went down the drain with the dregs of our morning coffee.  We all wish that we could wake up every day feeling like a rock star, but what do you do when instead you feel like an old lounge singer wearing the worst leisure suit in town? What do you do when you just don't feel it?

That was me today as I headed off to Step class. I was sore, tired and dragging. My problematic right quad, that seems to have a permanent strain, had me getting up from a seated position in a walk that started out like Frankenstein and ended up with a slightly less than normal half limp.  The Step routine today was new and challenging (which was awesome) but my legs started cramping halfway through and my workout pants were too long (turns out that happens when you lose weight, who knew?) so I kept tripping over them as I went up and down my step.  I just wasn't feeling it. But I kept going because:

• Quitting one time makes it all the more easy to quit the next time. 
• Any workout, even one where I'm not your best, is beneficial.
• Giving myself an out when I know I can keep going can create a snowball affect.
• If I'm moving, no matter what modification I have to make, I'm doing something. 
• Sometimes success means plugging away at something every day, so that on those days when I don't feel like working out, I just do it because that's my routine.
• Sweat always makes me feel better.
• Not even Mick Jagger is a rock star every day. Some days even he "can't get no satisfaction."