Thanks to Julie I am going to start the P90X workout this Saturday and I decided to make a blog to track my progress. This is a 90 day commitment and although I have the worst follow through of anyone on earth, I really hope to stick to this. At first I will try to write every day to give my impressions of the workouts and then at least once a week to keep it updated. Mostly I want to be held accountable somewhere, so here it is.
In case some rando reads this and doesn't know my fitness background I will lay it out for you here. About three and a half years ago I weighed 230 lbs and was a lazy ass lump. My exercise consisted of yoga once a week and taking walks sometimes. One day some people in my office decided to organize a "health challenge" so I joined up and lost 40 pounds right off the bat. I started doing a whole bunch of different workout dvds, mostly pilates based ones by Ellen Barret. I lost about 45 more pounds over the course of the next couple of years. By last summer I was super into working out, was 10 pounds away from my ultimate goal, and felt great.
For some reason, in pretty much every aspect of my life, whenever I get that close to a goal I begin to slack off or backslide. Diet and exercise seem to follow that same pattern. Since then I have slowly gained back about 15 pounds, and although I have continued to work out pretty regularly it has not been to the extent I was doing it back then. So, I really want to whip myself into real shape and finally reach my goal. I think this might be a way to do that.
Tomorrow I will be doing the fit test. I am getting kind of excited about that for some reason. I think it's because I like seeing actual, quantifiable results in the form of numbers and achievements. Three months isn't that long. I can do this!
I will post my before pics and fit test results tomorrow. Public embarrassment should be a good motivator!
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