With Orangetheory Fitness, we offer what’s called a Transformation Challenge. It’s changed over time, how long the contest is, the prizes, how the winners are chosen, but the premise is the same. It’s not just about weight loss, it’s about the mind body connection and realizing what you are capable of in a specific span of time.
This TC is eight weeks. We are doing a staff challenge with nearly a dozen team mates; each of us with very different goals. What’s the craziest, is how we all see ourselves versus seeing one another.
Sure, some are smaller in stature, some more fit and conditioned, some facing mental blocks and some just enjoying the motivation and chance to win some cash.
Although we are just beginning as this group, it’s exciting to see the support and encouragement. We are all in it to win, and from how this is starting, it seems that financially, one of us will get the prize money, but many of us, if not all, will be winners by the finish.
Since January, there’s been two ladies that I chat with daily. We check in. Plan workouts. Share our screw ups and text through the why’s behind them. Once again, we are so insanely hard on ourselves and basically accuse each other of lying when there’s no agreement on how fat/lazy/chunky/gross (insert any negative adjective) we see ourselves.
How does this happen?
Why is it so hard to accept a compliment?
Why is it so hard to accept ourselves?
Gym Girl Dana 