Day 24: Kenpo X

15Apr08

Since I felt quite dissatisfied with my performance during Core Synergistics, after the chat with Tony last night (which I’ll talk about later) I did a half hour of kickboxing with Cathe’s 4 Day Split. Nothing too difficult, but it was definitely hard to do with a full stomach. Even my heart rate monitor fell off right in the middle as I was trying to adjust it because it was so tight around my full belly. Which happened So basically yesterday was a bust workout wise.

I decided to make today much better. Which wasn’t difficult because it was my beloved Kenpo X! I don’t really like the stretches in the beginning of Kenpo (I don’t like stretching w/o a warm up) so I did the warm up from Cathe’s Kickbox instead, then did Kenpo after the stretching segments. It still clocked in at an hour.

Since tomorrow is X Stretch, and I prefer to do that one in the evening, I’ll probably do some cardio tomorrow AM.

Eats. Yesterday I felt like I ate too much. I ended the evening with a really full stomach after having my chicken wrap AND a protein shake. I probably should have just nixed the shake, but I wanted to hit my target calories and protein intake for the day.

Which leads me to Tony’s chat last night. It was a little difficult to follow because there were so many other conversations going on at once, but the two main things I got from the chat were 1. Keep it simple and 2. Help yourself to make the right decisions.

1. Keep it simple. Tony’s not one for percentages of proteins, fats, carbs, calorie counting, calorie expenditure, things like that. He believes in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and healthy fat, working out vigorously 5-6 times a week. That’s it. There really is no magic formula and it ain’t rocket science.  If you’re hungry, eat.  If you’re not, don’t.  There’s no need to be shoving down food just because you feel like you have to hit some kind of target or goal.  Which is what I did yesterday.

So I’m going to make an effort to follow that advice.  I need to get to a point where it’s simple.  I remember saying that a while back.  it just got too complicated for me.  Do this!  Do that!  Don’t do this!  Don’t do that!  Eat this!  Not that!  Workout in the morning!  Workout at night!  Don’t use weights!  Use heavier weights!  Soy!  Whey!  Oy vey!  I was on information overload.  I still am to a certain extent, but I’m trying to block everything out and focus on these things:

Pushing Play every morning.

Eating as CLEAN as I can.

Stop focusing on the scale.

Have FUN!

Get active outside of the house.

Tony also talked about the right thing vs. the wrong thing.  We all know what the right things to do are (eating right, exercising, making good food choices, etc), but sometimes we don’t do those things, even when we KNOW what they are.  We make it hard for ourselves by not sleeping enough, stressing out, not being prepared, complicating things.  We have to help ourselves make the right decisions.  Get enough sleep, stop stressing out over the scale or over calories, if we have a question about something, do some research, ask questions, speak up, don’t just stand there all confused.

And that’s that.  Definitely not rocket science, but something I needed to hear nonetheless.

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Tags: 4 Day Split, Cathe, Core Synergistics, Kenpo X, P90X, Tony Horton, X Stretch