motivation issues
Aug. 13th, 2010 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
replacementpartsI'm on week 9 of p90x, out of 13.
Unexpectedly, I had a really hard time hanging in there this week. I don't think I've been sick, but I definitely haven't been feeling in top form lately, either. Maybe it's work-related anxiety, combined with other factors.
Wednesday I got halfway through Yoga-X. Not even halfway. I did the beginning part that makes me drip sweat. I got up to the first really hard section with half moons and twisting half moons and paused to go get my laundry. Someone had started a couple loads right after I switched to the dryers and there's only two of each for our entire apartment building and I didn't want to be that bastard with dry clothes in both dryers for an extra hour, or make my neighbor dump them in my laundry basket. I got back to my room and didn't press play. Maybe I would have if I'd gotten through that hard section before breaking. But I didn't.
Thursday I was at Edwin's place most of the day, having gone down to SF late wednesday. I had my clinic appointment in the early evening, and my plan was to go home straight from the clinic and get my workout done before it got too late. Well, the way things worked out we had to go back to Edwin's place after the clinic, make a bank run, and he had to pack for the weekend (he has a similar schedule to mine, only with one huge shift from friday evening to monday morning). By the time we got to my place it was 930 and I wouldn't have been able to get started working out until 10 or 1030, which would have put me getting done working out close to midnight, and wide awake for at least three hours afterward. No thanks. -__-
Today I suffered from extreme motivation issues, and really wanting to get to spend that time with Edwin instead of working out. He did a good job of encouraging me to do it anyway, reminding me how much I like the results I'm getting, and how good I usually feel afterward. I had missed my thursday resistance training, 'Legs and Back' with Ab Ripper, so I decided to do that instead of friday's Kenpo workout. As much as I love kenpo (and gosh does it burn a lot of calories), I really feel like the resistance workouts are where it's at for me.
The workout was hard. Especially when I went to write down my chinup reps and they were consistently lower than they have been since week 5. I felt like I couldn't keep my balance in exercises where I usually didn't have any problems. 20 minutes in I wanted to give up. But I didn't. And I had chinup reps to write in at all, which today, was a success in itself. I even followed up with Ab Ripper like I was supposed to, and did as well with it as I had earlier in the week instead of going slower and doing less reps. And by the end of the workout, I WAS feeling a lot better, if more exhausted than normal.
Unexpectedly, I had a really hard time hanging in there this week. I don't think I've been sick, but I definitely haven't been feeling in top form lately, either. Maybe it's work-related anxiety, combined with other factors.
Wednesday I got halfway through Yoga-X. Not even halfway. I did the beginning part that makes me drip sweat. I got up to the first really hard section with half moons and twisting half moons and paused to go get my laundry. Someone had started a couple loads right after I switched to the dryers and there's only two of each for our entire apartment building and I didn't want to be that bastard with dry clothes in both dryers for an extra hour, or make my neighbor dump them in my laundry basket. I got back to my room and didn't press play. Maybe I would have if I'd gotten through that hard section before breaking. But I didn't.
Thursday I was at Edwin's place most of the day, having gone down to SF late wednesday. I had my clinic appointment in the early evening, and my plan was to go home straight from the clinic and get my workout done before it got too late. Well, the way things worked out we had to go back to Edwin's place after the clinic, make a bank run, and he had to pack for the weekend (he has a similar schedule to mine, only with one huge shift from friday evening to monday morning). By the time we got to my place it was 930 and I wouldn't have been able to get started working out until 10 or 1030, which would have put me getting done working out close to midnight, and wide awake for at least three hours afterward. No thanks. -__-
Today I suffered from extreme motivation issues, and really wanting to get to spend that time with Edwin instead of working out. He did a good job of encouraging me to do it anyway, reminding me how much I like the results I'm getting, and how good I usually feel afterward. I had missed my thursday resistance training, 'Legs and Back' with Ab Ripper, so I decided to do that instead of friday's Kenpo workout. As much as I love kenpo (and gosh does it burn a lot of calories), I really feel like the resistance workouts are where it's at for me.
The workout was hard. Especially when I went to write down my chinup reps and they were consistently lower than they have been since week 5. I felt like I couldn't keep my balance in exercises where I usually didn't have any problems. 20 minutes in I wanted to give up. But I didn't. And I had chinup reps to write in at all, which today, was a success in itself. I even followed up with Ab Ripper like I was supposed to, and did as well with it as I had earlier in the week instead of going slower and doing less reps. And by the end of the workout, I WAS feeling a lot better, if more exhausted than normal.
