Greener Pastures ….
I’ve been thinking, recently, about getting involved in something like ChaLEAN Extreme or Insanity over the last few weeks. Just something NEW to keep me focused and fresh, you know?
But there is ONE simple obstacle that is standing in my way: I have not yet graduated with a complete cycle of P90X under my belt yet!
I’m sitting here, on the eve of another restart, thinking that this will be my third time, doing the P90X thing again. But unlike the last time I did it, I KNOW it’s only a temporary attempt – simply so I can get back into playing shape for my basketball team. But from where I am standing, I feel like I simply can’t do a one hour workout per night combined with 3 weekly hours of intense basketball. It’s just not possible right now …. or is it?
Most of the time, I find that I do my workouts in the night. I guess it’s a hold over from when I was a work monkey. Nine to Five. Come home, eat, work out, sleep.
But now I’m a stay at home dad and my days run differently. By the time 8 or 9 rolls around, I’m exhausted from chasing my kids around all day and working out in the evening seems like masochism to me.
Maybe I need to rethink my schedule …. but the thing is that I literally cannot find the time, right now, to fit in a full P90X workout in the middle of my day. And I’m not an early riser – nope. Not a morning person. So, clearly, something has to give.
I can’t just keep starting and stopping the program over and over, you know? I HAVE to finish it eventually …. right?
Tomorrow, at some point, I’m gonna have to do my scheduled Chest & Back workout. I just don’t know when that will be and how that will fit in with my next 30 or 40 days. Maybe it’s something I just jump into and worry about on a day to day basis ….
In a LOT of ways, it almost feels like I am fenced in right now. Like I am trying to find a way out of this “can’t do it” situation, trying to get to the other side to the greener pastures. You know what they say about greener pastures, though ….
And seeing that I can’t even make heads or tails of this right now makes me second guess committing to a ChaLEAN Extreme or Insanity routine …..
But it is something I definitely wanna try out for myself. I just have to get my stuff straight on this side first before I cross over.
