Today, I got up, went to class, came home, snuggled with the mister, did my pcp workout, baked some banana bread, worked on the house, cleaning and fixing, made dinner, and am now just finishing up with blogging and some cleaning before jumping into bed with my book. It was the kind of day that I think of when I think of life being good; relaxed and productive and really pleasant. This is my baseline for what life should be like.
Lately, things have been busy and so I haven't had as much time or mental energy for pcp. I've been great on the diet, but when working out, it hasn't been with as much care as it should be. I've done the exercises, gotten through, but haven't taken the time to really check my form and make sure I'm getting the most out of the exercises, and not going all the way to farthest amount of failure I can get to. I've been slacking. I kept telling myself that I'd get back up to par when life slowed down. But the thing is, life will never really slow down. Well will never slow down to the point at which I say, "ok, life is slow now; now is the time to do better with the workouts". It's a mistake to think that when life slows down there will be more space for well focused workouts. That's the wrong way of thinking about, because then you end up with life and working out and they're separate. They're not separate. They're one and the same. PCP/being healthy is life and life is PCP/being healthy. If try to separate them, you're only going find time for one: life or pcp. But when you realize that pcp is just another part of life and just get in there, that's when you've got it.
During the first month, I kept thinking, "oh in October when I don't have to workout ...". But no, that's not it at all. The 90 days don't matter. Well they do, I'm glad there's only 90 of them, I'm not sure I could pull off 120 or more, but they don't really matter. PCP doesn't end on day 90. By day 91, hopefully we've boosted ourselves up from our old normal to a new better normal so that when we don't have a workout prescribed or our daily grams measured out, we don't go back to our old ways, we start to find our way around daily life at our new, better level of normal.
End philosophisizing - Bicycles today were so hard. I don't know what it was but I was really struggling to get through the last two sets. Also, I did 6 sets of pull-ups with Jordan's help. He definitely had to help me way more at the end at the beginning. Patrick, is that the best way to approach them? Or should Jordan help me as little as possible so that I fail early on and then finish out the rest of the sets as inclined pull-ups?
