Relax and Reset

Wow… what a start of the year!  Whoever I have chatted with, had some sort of a crazy story about January 2024.  The good news is that it is now in the past.

As the days of January were going by, I was thinking of relaxing so that I can get ready to reset.  It was definitely a roller coaster of a month but reminded me to pause.  In our daily lives, we often pause to reset without even realizing.  For example, how many times have you started to write an email and then deleted a sentence (or a paragraph) to re-write it? Or how many times, right before dinner time, you have realized that you don’t have the correct ingredient so that you changed plans?  These are just small examples of “reset”s and before each reset, there is usually a period of time that we breathe and think. I visualize that time as “relax”.  So as I was thinking through some of the setbacks that we went through in January, I decided to apply the concept of “relax and reset” to our family.

As athletes, both Derek and I are very used to “keep going” - like the energizer bunny.  Even though, we take good care of our bodies, there is only so much that the body can put up with. The challenge of being on the go constantly is that it feels like there is no time to “relax” so that we can reset.  Therefore we go until we hit a wall.  My wall wasn’t as hard but still it was hard enough to let me pause/relax.  The reset process is exciting but at the same time a little nerve wracking because we both want to make sure that we come out of the reset stronger than before.  And that’s why the concept of “Relax and Reset” became the part of this year’s resolution.

Workouts are a perfect way to show case our new year’s resolution.  The body gets used to certain moves and certain workouts - even if they are hardcore workouts.  Therefore pausing from time to time and reseting to basics can be very helpful for the muscles.  During one of our Train and Smile sessions in January, we focused on the theme of “Relax” and we used a “dining chair” as our tool. As a tribute to a crazy month of January, below is the video of the moves that we did in one of our classes where we focused on “Relax” theme.

High Five to you all for leaving January behind!!

mother and son “relax” time before he turned 9

when the family was not hitting a wall… :)