My 1st week of 2012

So how did everyone do their 1st week?  Its a given that everyone has the best intentions to get started this time of the year.  Personally, this past week was quite interesting for me!   I realized I babied myself this first week because it was new routine (Les Mills PUMP).  I felt I needed to get acclimated to the barbell, probably could have gone a little heavier and added cardio in (if only my legs didn't feel like cinder blocks on Day 2).

According to the schedule, you do the PUMP Challenge 3 times the first week.  Its a half hour workout which covers all the major muscle groups for total body training.  After going through the 1st workout, I realized I was not working my quads/hams nearly enough.

What I realized by the end of the week was that I was missing the intense cardio from TurboFire and that started to mess with my head.  Over the past 4 months, I was able to build a foundation through my workouts/nutrition/mindset that worked for ME.  It served as my bulletproof vest against all that went awry in my life.

Yesterday (Saturday), there were too many things going wrong.  I consider myself a very flexible and adaptable person; but there were too many things to deal with.  I knew I was slipping and felt like I was losing my grip.  I have a confession to make.  I had a set back and binged last night.  I think allowing myself to experience this type of behavior made me realize I am not perfect.  No I never claimed to be, but I got into this competently conscious mode of functioning.

“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”

So I will chalk this up to this being my hard thing that was put in my way.  No, its not gonna stop me.  What it is doing is allowing me this chance to grow, learn and regroup so that I may get back on track and move on.  Today I'm all about dusting myself off and moving forward.  Lesson learned.


Interestingly enough, I am grateful for this opportunity to re-evaluate where I'm at.  I will not dwell on what went wrong.  The past is over.  I learned I must be present in the moment now and work on what I could.  How many times do we get caught up looking in the rear view mirror (of life) and not pay attention to where we're going and the road ahead?


Today is a clean slate.  You can follow along as I continue through the 30 day challenge, join us here:    http://bit.ly/w0k2ty