Stats…
- Weight: 206 lbs.
In case, you haven’t followed my other P90X entries… for ease of tracking my progress, each bullet point represents the 2-digit date of the activity followed by a “:” and the 2-digit number indicating my progress within the 90-day course for P90X (i.e. – 27:01 indicates September 27th, day 1 of P90X).
October 2010 – Week 4
- 18:22 Yoga X
- 19:23 Sick, Ab Ripper X
- 20:24 Migraine, Kenpo X modified to Bujinkan Basics
- 21:25 Bujinkan Training
- 22:26 Core Synergystics
- 23:27 Rest, chiropractor appt.
- 24:28 Rest
The roughest thing for me this week, and perhaps for the past 2 weeks… is trying to keep my diet in line while feeling sick (sinus congestion, headache, overall fatigue, dizziness). I find myself going for long periods of time drinking water and tea and not eating because I don’t feel well; then, when I do eat I end up having too many carbs (even the good kinds) because I haven’t eaten for so long. My goal is to reestablish regular meals even if I don’t feel any better by the end of this week. And I restocked on Airborne and cough syrup to get me through the week along with saline nose spray. I know if I go to the doctor I’ll end up with an antibiotic… and with the viral nasties that have been spinning around my office this month the *last* thing I want right now is to completely wipe out my immune system and end up with something worse.
On a positive note, with my husband’s help I’ve still been working out as much as I can every day. I haven’t been pushing myself to the extreme in each workout, but I have been working out as hard as I can without going too far into dizziness, etc. I’m hoping in another week, between the medicine, eating healthy, and continuing with P90X I can “sweat out” whatever is causing my sinus woes. Also, icing my shoulder after the Yoga workout, along with biofreeze in the mornings after P90X when my shoulder/collarbone is tender has really been helping me manage my pain as my right side grows stronger. I am still surprised by how much stronger one side of my body is than the other, and how it flips between right and left depending which muscle groups we’re working on. I look forward to using P90X in my efforts to rebalance and strengthen both sides so they become more equal.
You’ll notice I did try the Kenpo workout this week, and I ad libbed basic Bujinkan self-training for many of the segments and kept my cardio up. I will be going back through the Kenpo workout noting down each segment and time over the weekend to directly map the basic training elements I wish to focus on while Tony talks in the background. Once I have it mapped, I’ll make a seperate post delineating how my husband and I are doing it. Since there are two of us, I’m excited that we can incorporate some waza training like Koku and Renyo from Gyokko Ryu.
A closing happy thought for this week… I am waking up by 4:30 AM consistently now (whether I want to or not), so as long as I continue to get to bed early it’s becoming much easier to wake up. Hooray!
