Pumped!

I've discovered that going to the gym only once a week works out much better for me than even going twice a week, because when I go I am actually really excited to work out and I can give more energy during my workout. I still have all my other physical activity during the week but actual gym workouts seem to be best once a week, I'm not sure why but I guess that is just where I am mentally. I've been going to the gym now for over 3 years (maybe 4 - I'm not sure) and I've gone from 7 days a week to where I am at now (and also zero days a week when I was lazy). Since I've started writing poetry regularly I've been thinking about writing a gym poem, but I have not been success as of yet. I think it is partially because very little of my poetry is really serious and the stuff that is still fairly light or is inspired. Perhaps I could write a funny poem about the gym (actually it would be pretty easy considering the amount of crazy that goes along with the gym) but it hasn't felt right yet. The serious poems about the gym though have been ever worse - they just don't work for me. And there is lies one of my biggest problems in writing poetry is that I can't take it seriously. It isn't that I don't think poetry can deal with serious issues (because it clearly can) but that I just don't feel I have the wordcraft to put together a poem that is to be taken seriously. So I am issuing myself a challenge to write more serious poetry. As they say practice makes pretty good and perfect practice makes perfect. I think I am okay with just pretty good, but we'll see where this goes.