Becoming Better

I definitely was NOT sedentary this weekend!  Eeesh! 

Saturday was my ResoLOSEtion group at the gym.  Wow.  This was the first session I have been to this round.  (I missed the first one while I was up in Wisconsin.)  We are doing the Insanity:Asylum workouts.  Wheeeee!  The format is the same in that it is sets of movements done for a specific amount of time each. So: five movements, and you do each one for thirty seconds.   It is different in that this time there are resistance bands or weights incorporated into the workouts.  It is intense - you SWEAT doing this workout even though we are not necessarily doing as much "cardio" moves.   Whew!   

Here is what I am noticing about myself in these workouts:

1. I've so missed doing things with a group of people-this group of people in particular.  They spur me on to continue pushing myself. 

2. While I am definitely not what I would call "in shape", I am in better shape than when I started in February.  And I am more willing to try out a move than I was then.  I even gave "Mountain Climbers" a try this weekend and I would have NOT done that when I started.   I can't do them great but I did them the best I could. 

3. My shoulders and arms are still pretty okay strength wise even though I haven't danced in forever.    I'm not like Ms. Universe or anything but I'm not rubber-band-arms-girl either.  :) 

Sunday was the day STAG moved all of his big stuff into my - OUR - house.  I packed boxes, carried them, moved them around etc.  It was a day of hard work and a lot of stairs. By the end of the day, all I wanted was a shower to get the dust off and to go to bed.   And that's what we did!

Neither of these days included the P90X workouts.  Especially on Saturday, I felt like I got a good workout in.  Tonight I am going to do it though.  STAG will be at class and I will be on my own.  But I feel like if I get in the workout while dinner is cooking I will feel good and can just hang out and do some house stuff tonight.   Slowly, I'm trying to make this a part of my everyday life...

"You can always become better."

-Tiger Woods

P90X - And so it begins!

Okay,  I haven't posted here in a while but I haven't given up or stopped working on my health for this year
There's a lot to tell and I'm not sure how well I will be able to convey everything here , but I'll try.  For this post I'm going to focus on the Physical Health aspect of my life (If you hadn't already figured that out from the title...)

This all starts back about two weeks ago when I went up to a pagan gathering called "Earth Conclave".  One of the things I came away with from the weekend is that I should be doing a daily devotional to the Morrigan  and the Red Dragon that was physical. No saying a little prayer or lighting a candle for me! My daily exercise is to be my devotion.  Which,makes sense as I've been bringing my spiritual path into this work on my self and makes even more sense because the Morrigan has been encouraging me to feel like a warrior and claim that strength and determination that is within me.

SO, I rested on my laurels for a few days after the gathering, and those few days stretched into weeks.  Then, yesterday, I got my P90X set back in the mail from my cousin who had borrowed it.  And there it was: a box full of stuff that said "No More Excuses".

I really had no choice, I went home last night and did the first workout on the Lean program.  It's called Core Synergistics.  It's all core muscle work.    I am sore.  It was tough.  I only made it halfway before the muscle in my back that I pulled a few weeks ago was warning me to stop - and I took its advice not wanting to EVER be in that much pain again.

I did it though.  And tonight I'll do the next workout. It's Cardio X - but don't think that means cute women in spandex bopping around on the screen.   I'll update tomorrow.

I'll do it as much as I can the best that I can.  In 90 days we will see what changes have occurred.  I think my inner warrior is going to love it!

"If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed"

-Danny Paradise