P90X Day 64: Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps, Ab Ripper X

This is a hard one. This is always a hard one. The key thing is showing up. Even if it doesn't feel great, even if you think you didn't do that well, the fact that you showed up at all when it was the last thing you wanted to do means everything. Today was perhaps one of the most important days of my current round of P90X.

P90X Day 63: X Stretch

It's a bit like dessert.

P90X Day 61 and 62: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X and Kenpo X

Skipped Friday, doubled-up Saturday.

P90X Day 60: Yoga X

⅔ point. 30 days left.

I've been able to keep up the exercise, but it's harder because the supporting habits are hard to maintain. This part--the part where it's a matter of habit to sleep well and prepare food--this has escaped me.

Exercising affects me more than I expect it to.
Not exercising affects me more than I expect it to.

Sleeping well affects me more than I expect it to.
Not sleeping well affects me more than I expect it to.

Eating well affects me more than I expect it to.
Not eating well affects me more than I expect it to.

Hmmm...okay, this is establishing either that 1. physiological needs are underrated or 2. there's some balancing, stabilizing force that's weakened or 3. some unaddressed unbalancing, destabilizing force.

Or maybe it's like how when you have a cold you forget what it feels like not to have a cold and vice-versa.

P90X Day 59: Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X

Finally woke myself up to get this in before work! Great start to the day.

As good as I feel now, there is still a sense that there are deeper questions to be addressed. Purpose, meaning, and example. I worry I'm just a bad night's sleep away from facing down worry and regret. Before that happens  it's probably worth reexamining my life from first principles. That should help better absorb a hard night's sleep. Go go gadget Bible!

P90X Day 58: Plyometrics

There's a vast difference between the first time you do this routine and the seventh. Guess which is better?

P90X Day 57: Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X

This was an important day because I didn't really want to work out at all. These are the days that matter the most.

Sleeping and eating habits of late have not been optimal, which feeds into why I just wasn't feeling it. But I did it anyway. And I'll keep doing it. And my sleep and eating habits have no choice but to adjust.

Speaking of, better get to bed fast if I want to lock in a morning workout schedule.

P90X Day 56: X Stretch

Okay, hopefully I can get back on a first-thing-in-the-morning routine starting tomorrow.

Long weekend. Better use it. You can start calling this fall weather if you like.

P90X Day 55: Yoga X

Yoga + programming help = good day

P90X Day 54: Core Synergistics

This was another excellent opportunity to work out while simultaneously giving programming help. That's a fun way to do it.

P90X Day 53: X Stretch

Did this while helping my sister with some programming stuff. Yay for family fun time!

Had a horrible time sleeping the night previously and went way-broody on Thursday morning. Always get enough sleep, but also always address questions of purpose and maintain a focus on doing what you want to be doing. Minimize regrets.

P90X Day 52: Kenpo X

Kenpo is great. Taking the time for each workout is really the hard part right now. That's scary since there's slightly less of a time investment during recovery weeks. This is why they made P90X 3.

P90X Day 51: Core Synergistics

Rolling along, happened on schedule--just after work. Maybe I'll catch up with pre-work workouts after Labor Day.