Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Do your best and forget the rest!

So I'm declaring myself done with P90X haha. Admittedly, I did not do workouts for 90 days straight, so my brother-in-law says it doesn't count, but I'm going to go off Tony Horton's philosophy- I did my best and will forget the rest! There are only 6 days I didn't do a P90X workout. I'm taking two official sick days out of those and think that's more than fair since I needed sleep very desperately, and I missed several Saturdays and a couple Mondays or Fridays around the holiday time (never once because I simply didn't 'want' to do it but always because I had a plane to catch at 6am and would've have to have gotten up at like 3am to do a workout or I got home from vacation at 4am and didn't have the energy to wake up a half hour later to work out and then go to work with no sleep). I was initially determined to "make them up"; however, after doing my workout this morning during my now 16th week, I'm super bored and losing my "quality" just because I want to get "quantity". This is not the Tony Horton way. He says, "Don't be a hero. It's quality not quantity." So, my form is going down south which means it's time to be done. I will say that it's not like I didn't exercise on some of those 6 days. I hiked for several hours a couple of those Saturdays but technically I didn't count those since it wasn't an "X-treme" workout.

Even if I didn't do 90 days straight, it's been a great experience. I do feel accomplished and I feel like I'm in better physical shape than I have been in a long time. I'm also kinda proud of myself by doing it by myself. I normally like to do these work outs in a class with other people, but I did just fine with pushing myself alone, and I didn't mind "oooommming" alone or just laughing to myself when I attempted something new. Now I'm wondering what to do next! It feels good to work out in the morning, but I don't know if I can keep doin' the 4am gig...I've gotta do something though...I don't wanna go down hill at 30 hahha.
So...farewell P90X. I'm sure we will meet again...for SURE after I have babies!
I leave you with some great quotes from Tony Horton- he was a great instructor despite being very repetitive hahhah
"You can do anything for 30 seconds" (and...I pretty much can!)
"Variety is the spice of life you don't need to go to the gym and do squats all the time" (amen brother)
"Don't be a hero"
"Get out of your head! Clear your mind and focus on the task at hand"

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