After completing your workout, use this test to decide whether you aced your workout. When you ACE your workout, you will feel:
- Alert—mentally
- Calm—emotionally
- Energized—physically
If you feel mentally tired, emotionally upset, or physically exhausted, you probably did too much (in an unhealthy way). If you just feel bored or uninspired, you probably didn’t do enough. When you ACE your workout, you will feel better afterward than when you started. That’s part of the magic of exercise. Exercise can make you feel better, even if you felt nauseated, exhausted or sad before you did it. You can control feeling better afterward by customizing your exercise movements to match how your body is doing on any given day.