You’d think that with the running and playing lacrosse, I’d be in great shape. Well, I think that I’m in much better shape than I was a few years ago, but I still feel very far off my fitness goals that I set out for myself since I got cancer. So, I decided to embark on this P90X program to see if I could jump start my body into better fitness. I had heard some great reviews from friends and family on the program, although most of them seem to be a bit more relaxed on the diet aspects of the program.
I’m only on day 2 of the program, but I’m already feeling results from the exercise part of the program. It has been pretty hard, and maybe I’m not as fit as I thought I was. Granted, I haven’t really done any lifting in a while. The first day was chest and back and I’m definitely feeling it. Today was plyometrics. I actually thought this was a bit easier than some people make it out to be. I think that this could be due to the marathon training, during which we did a lot of these exercises.
I definitely see how, if I stick to the program, I can benefit. In particular, I feel like I can be a better lacrosse goalie and get back some of that reaction speed I lost during the last 11 years. I also hope to start another training program with Team in Training in December, and I have a goal of being able to be even more ready the third time around (the second time around, the training was much easier than the first one).
Now the real question is, given my history of sticking with diets and workout programs, how I can stick with the program without failing. My main concern is the diet aspect of this program. There’s no absolute way that I can completely cut out alcohol or coffee, but, of course, I can moderate. I probably need to cut back for a while since there were so many things going on during the last couple of weeks and there was enough alcohol consumed. So far, it looks like quite an adjustment just to manage my schedule so that I can eat properly at the proper times. And because the diet is a little different than what I had been accustomed to, I still have to figure out how to eat the right things with what I have in my kitchen. Not to say that I have junk, but I don’t have the right things to make complete meals. And of course, there’s the whole making food thing that I’ve not been doing much of for a while now.
But I guess the nice thing is that the program has a light at the end of the tunnel, and there’s not much anticipated disruption to my schedule until the end, with the exception of Thanksgiving. Maybe that’ll be my treat to myself.