Today was a day of workout exhaustion and new triumphs. There were heavy thunder storms last night in the area that disturbed everyone’s sleep with a noise and light show. However, I pushed through my workouts anyway and kept to my nutrition regime. I am extremely thankful to the co-op for having organic celery at 99 cents per head last week. With the varying heat and humidity, it’s watery crispness has been a welcome treat.
I beat my earlier circuit times by pushing on my second workout of the day and re-introduced an old favorite as the first. Twice through that one in the estimated appropriate time although my abdominals still seem a little lacking, which surprises me. I’ll watch my form a bit more carefully on all of the cores and see if that doesn’t straighten out in a week or so.
I can tell that the sessions and nutrition guidelines are really paying off. Scale keeps moving down, slowly but surely, looking at about two pounds per week. In addition to that, the muscles are definitely building, particularly noticeable to me in my arm and shoulder area. I still have a bit of a “worked out” feel in the area, but it’s all good.
On another note, Dax has had us looking at root causes for our decision (with a little ‘d’) to participate in the program which forces an examination of motivation. Not the most comforting thing in the world as I realize the devastation of two bad marriages and the way I allowed them to erode my self-confidence. I kept fighting but immature mates have a way of wearing one down. Now it is up to me to take stock of my strengths and weaknesses and go on from there.
Balance. Ever and always, it’s all about balance.
Weekly measurements and pics coming up soon! It should be interesting.
So right – it is all about balance – and confidence. So pleased you are feeling good on the program, and it sounds like the exercise challenge you as much as they are challenging me! :o) Well done you – keep up the great work.