short and sweet

Tonight was Sculpt 5-6 of Power 90 Master series.  Yesterday went for a couple short hikes with the family in our closest national park and it was a great day.  I had to work this Holiday Monday (in Canada) and I worked out tonight after work.

I am dead tired so heading to bed, hope to post something a little more substantial tomorrow, lol.

Great day today

Today was one of those days that everything comes together. Eat on plan, get your water in and get lots of exercise activity. I biked to and from work for 9.8km biked. I walked nearly 14000 steps, and I did Power 90 MS Cardio Intervals tonight! Was a great day. Now, just fit in 96 more of these on my little 100 day mini challenge and I will get to where I wanna be.

I am really going to bare down this summer and make it my most active summer in quite some time. All these years lately, the aches and pains, the poor health, family responsibilities and just plain laziness have all been used as excuses to sit on my ever expanding butt and sit on the side lines of life! No more. Back to the things i love, hiking with the family, the occasional game of golf with the boys, some pickup basketball and tennis, and loads of other activity. I wanna get past the days, where with including work, i spend 12 hours a day in front of the computer. That is no way to get anywhere.

My neck/shoulder pain is all but a memory, aside from the normal stuff I deal with. I worked out after a good warmup with zero limitations tonight. I will continue to keep an eye on it but i think i dodged a bullet this time. All for now, time for bed.

Getting my head back in the game

So with all that has been going on in my family life, the last week has been a rough one.  Unfortunately, I have been around a lot of death in my 38 years.  It is as they say a part of life.  I have lost uncles, friends, neighbors, grandparents, 2 nephews and a niece to name but a few.  The following quote by Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee has always stuck with me.  Eerily, I saw an interview with him weeks before he died when he said the following

“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.”

The little bit of me you have read, you have probably figured out I am in my head a lot.  I struggle with proper mindset but I work tirelessly at it.  I have read Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Ziegler and other giants of the self-help/motivation/mindset  for years.  I took Anthony Robbins course Personal Power when I was 19 years old and I may not be over stating it that it may have saved my life.  I guess what it comes down to is, as big a part of the transformation I am setting out to complete is as much on the inside as the out. 

The viewing for my grandfather is Sunday, and the funeral Monday.  I am not using this week as an excuse to go on some booze or food bender, and I am not sitting on my ample behind either.  Today I worked out for nearly an hour and a half, doing the Insanity fitness test just out of curiosity (I stunk, haha) a Power 90 Masters series workout, and to top it off then did the beginner workout of the Jillian Michaels Yoga dvd.  I got 3 Jillian Michaels workouts today for 20 bucks!  Always looking for more workouts, and since I started Power 90 I have gotten over the macho “I am a guy, i lift weights not do fitness videos” thing I used to fall victim to. 

Eats have not been 100 percent this week, and we’ll see where I am tomorrow when I return to weight watchers.  I am looking forward to getting back to the meeting, and I am looking forward to getting back in the groove and start progressing again.  I have been working out on and off for a few weeks on some goals and I will post about that soon.  I also have been working on a picture post showing some of the probably 100 “befores” I have taken over the years. 

All i got for now, going to watch a movie with the family.