Day something (I don't want to count)

So I've fallen off the blogging wagon but not the workout wagon. I only missed one video / exercise so far this week, but i think the inordinate amount of yard work and wii time have made up for it.

Next week is my "Rest" week. Stretching, yoga, core... easy stuff I might throw an ab in there to make up for not doing it the first week.

I'll check my calendar and see what section 2 has in store for me.

So completely off topic.

Keeping Our Minds Supple

Questioning Everything

A lot of people feel threatened if they feel they are being asked to question their cherished beliefs or their perception of reality. Yet questioning is what keeps our minds supple and strong. Simply settling on one way of seeing things and refusing to be open to other possibilities makes the mind rigid and generally creates a restrictive and uncomfortable atmosphere. We all know someone who refuses to budge on one or more issues, and we may have our own sacred cows that could use a little prodding. Being open-minded means that we are willing to question everything, including those things we take for granted.

A willingness to question everything, even things we are sure we are right about, can shake us out of complacency and reinvigorate our minds, opening us up to understanding people and perspectives that were alien to us before. This alone is good reason to remain inquisitive, no matter how much experience we have or how old we get. In the Zen tradition, this willingness to question is known as beginner’s mind, and it has a way of generating possibilities we couldn’t have seen from the point of view of knowing something with certainty. The willingness to question everything doesn’t necessarily mean we don’t believe in anything at all, and it doesn’t mean we have to question every single thing in the world every minute of the day. It just means that we are humble enough to acknowledge how little we actually know about the mysterious universe we call home.

Nearly every revolutionary change in the history of human progress came about because someone questioned some time-honored belief or tradition and in doing so revealed a new truth, a new way of doing things, or a new standard for ethical and moral behavior. Just so, a commitment to staying open and inquisitive in our own individual lives can lead us to new personal revolutions and truths, truths that we will hopefully, for the sake of our growth, remain open to questioning.

Kenpo Day...

Well, kenpo got replaced with an hour of punch out on the wii with wrist weights, and 15 minutes of ab pwnzing.  Tonight is bowling.  

Tomorrow, legs and back.

Ok so I've been slacking.

I fell off the wagon, then used early morning shift as my excuse to not do anything the 2nd week, so I'm going to punish myself one week.  I'm back to week 2 of p90x.  Shoulders and Arms today.  I slowed down and worked on form today on my reps today, which really made my arms start to burn.   I think I need to get bigger weights again for some of the reps.  Chair dips are a killer though, I hope to be able to do the straight leg version next week at least for the first set.

Works Active for Life starts today.  10 weeks of logging all activities.  And if they count mowing, that leaves a lot open for interpretation.

I also started playing punchout on wii.  I need a balance board to make it an even more tiring experience.  :)

Kenpo tomorrow.

2 weeks in. Thoughts.

So I'm liking most of this so far, though there is the occasional morning where I am not quite feeling it.

I think I'm going to make some modifications to my current schedule.

I'm going to move Cardio from Tuesday, to Sunday, and not do the video except on weekends where I don't have a soccer game.  Soccer becomes my cardio workout.

Move Core from Monday to Tuesday.

Move Rest day from Sunday to Monday.

Let's see how that works for week 3.

Day 12 Legs and Back.

So I need to find a way to get my chin up bar higher.   I have a hard time doing large numbers of pull ups and chin ups when my feet touch the ground a third of the way down.

The leg stuff... I was sweating... didn't quite complete today, but that's because I just wasn't feeling very energetic or driven this morning.  I didn't want to push through.  I only had about 10 minutes left.  

I did notice a little while later though my legs were already feeling weak when it came to going downstairs, so at least there was some good work out accomplished.

Tomorrow Kenpo... and anything else I can con bobby into doing.