Feeling good today….

03Jun08

I’m getting there, slowly but surely.  I’ve tried to think about what happened and how I can get myself back on track.  I think the big thing for me was the eating.  I slipped up with the eating, got really lax with it and let that derail the workouts in the process, instead of just pushing on with the workouts at the very least.  But in the end I realized P90X wasn’t for me.  At least not right now.  I did love them initially  but then the second phase I wasn’t really feeling and started to get that dread factor getting up at 5AM which is never a good thing.  So I stopped.  Right now I’m just trying to find something that’s gonna work for me. (Oh My God!  How freaking many times have I said that on this blog.  I feel SOOOO pathetic.)

My goals are to get the eating together and get back to a consistent workout schedule.  I realized that I pretty much literally forgot how to eat.  So I went back to my old fitday days when I had just started P90X and that gave me some ideas.

I also went back to my old reliable - Cathe.  I mostly did her cardio, but never used to like her strength workouts because I thought that I wasn’t really WORKING.  I always preferred cardio over weights because I felt like i wasn’t getting any benefits from strength training.  How wrong I was!  The one thing that P90X taught me was that weight training does have it’s benefits (I LOVED my arms in my 30 days pics!) AND that I should always challenge myself and left as heavy as I can.  This morning I did Pyramid Lower Body for the first time in years and really made an effort to lift heavy.  I think I matched Cathe’s weights on a few of the exercises.  I KNOW my legs are gonna be in pain tomorrow!

I want to lift 3 times a week and do cardio and HIIT 3-4 times a week.

Yesterday I did something I have never done.  I went outside to run.  Just in my neighborhood, early morning, around 5:30.  20 minutes.  I have no idea how many miles I ran, but it was nice to get off the treadmill, outside in the air, and to have hills instead of just a flat surface.

Anyhoo, that’s that.

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