The thing that always cracks me up about doing Insanity workouts is that you do a warm up that lasts 10 minutes or so and then you stretch, but the warm up makes you sweat so much that the whole time you're doing your stretching, you're creating a pool of sweat on the floor. Mercifully, we don't have carpet in the living room, or else I would probably be pretty grossed out by the amount of sweat stuck in the carpet.
Today's workout was Plyometric Cardio Circuit. I feel as though I'm getting a little better at it...it seems like the times I wuss out are coming fewer and further between, so that's great.
I'm going to use my blog to spew some thoughts I've had lately, if that's okay with you. My wife and I like to watch The Biggest Loser. I had never actually watched the show prior to this year, but since Rulon Gardner is on it this year, I wanted to watch it. It's an interesting show...thankfully, the "reality tv" parts aren't horrible (you know, the parts where people scream at eachother, or someone has some emotional meltdown or whatever). I just find it interesting/inspiring/motivating to watch these people who are moribidly obese doing something to improve their health and save their lives. The only real problem I have with the show is the intense focus on the number. You know the number I'm talking about...that number on the scale. On the one hand, I get it...it's essentially a game show where people win or lose based on the number on the scale. On the other hand, to a certain extent, people shouldn't worry/focus on the number on the scale. Yes, it's good to know where you're at...yes, it can provide good motivation to keep you going if you see the number going down. But that number can also be so discouraging to a lot of people. I hear people all the time who start a fitness program, or start going to the gym or start running or start whatever, and after a week they're so disappointed that the number hasn't gone down (worse still, what if it goes up???). I'll confess to being a scale junkie...I find great motivation in seeing the number move around...up or down...if it goes up, I think about why that may be and if it goes down, I do a little jig :) But shouldn't it be more important to guage how you're doing based on how you feel? A boss of mine once told me "perception is reality", and nowhere is that more true than in one's own self-image. When I had to take time off from exercise due to my hernia, not only did the number on the scale go up, but my self-image went down...I felt frumpy, I felt blah. But now that I'm back to exercise, I might still feel kinda frumpy, but I don't really feel blah anymore. You know what made me workout tonight when I really didn't want to, and bed was singing the sweet siren song? I was looking at my hands, and I could see the veins in my arms and hands again. That simple, little thing...a small change in my body...gave me the motivation to work my bootie off at 10:00 at night instead of going to bed. I've decided that I'm not going to stand on the scale again until day 30, because I don't want to focus on the number. I want to focus on performance, I want to focus on my perception of myself....after all, perception is reality...
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