the notebook
Working out with P90X: Part 7
The holidays isn't the best or easiest time to follow the P90X guidelines but I've tried my best. Mix in a little work craziness and things got interesting.
Time to get right back into the mix. Recovery week is over and it's the holidays, which is not necessarily a good combination.
As I predicted, eating was definitely touch and go over the holiday. Partly because I love my gran's cooking but mostly because my willpower wasn't exactly where it should have been. I'd like to see if you can resist my mom and gran ganging up on you with chocolate, turkey, buns, and various other desserts and treats. Diet was really a negative the last little while.
The workouts
It was really great to be doing different exercises again and mixing up the muscle groups that were being worked each day. Progress in my chest, arm, and shoulder strength seems to be getting significantly better and it's more noticeable now than it has been the past two months.
Where I'm not seeing quite as much improvement is in my back strength — mostly with pull ups. I'm not saying there is a complete lack of improvement... it just seems like I'm not pushing myself as hard as I should be. This will change in the next couple weeks.
The vast majority of yoga is becoming much easier for me. The warrior three sequence gets me every single time. My goal was to be able to make it through yoga x without any breaks by the end of three months. That's still a goal.
Consistency
Throughout the past two and a half months, I've been able to keep very consistent with my workouts. Always working out in the morning. If I missed a workout in the morning, I'd do it at night as soon as I could. Up to this point, I'd only missed two workouts due to illness.
Christmas is a different creature though. I took Christmas (Thursday) off this year and skipped that day's workout. To make up for it, I did Christmas Day's workout the day after; on Friday. The rest of the week didn't work out so well. The day after catching up (Saturday) was a travel day and I was bagged, so I skipped that day's workout as well. And nobody likes to workout on Sunday, right?
Almost finished
As I write this, I'm midway through Week 10. That means there's only two and a half weeks left. My goals for the final couple weeks are:
- Push myself as hard as possible with pull ups
- Be more consistent with eating the right foods
- Finish strong
These are simple goals but important nonetheless.
