I'm on Week 5 of P90X
I have not posted in awhile because of I had gotten lazy to post. But Here's an update. During the first month of workouts I did so-so. I dropped 8lbs from 257 to 249 but that weekend where I was at 249lbs I went on vacation for 5 days in San Francisco. Luckily I only gained 6lbs back from the vacation but it took me 3 weeks to get rid of it. Now I'm back to 249 and still feeling motivated. I have to work out today with Chest Shoulders & Triceps.
Yesterday I was supposed to do Cardio X but my cellphone was dying because I had forgotten to charge it. I decided to jog/run. I jogged/ran 2 miles without stopping. About midway through my 2nd mile the area between my achilles and calve muscle begin to tighten but I decided to push through it and finish my 2 mile. My goal was to do 5 miles but I was only able to achieve 2.
Afterwards I felt like I was done for the night and I'll work out again today. I ran into a friend. Now this friend of mine, we got into an argument in the middle of the gym. He was saying that I don't put enough effort into my workouts. Now I've been going to the gym for a month and a half. Putting my time in with the P90X. I started off with my ultimate reset detox then hit the P90X a week afterwards. So for him to say I haven't put in the effort is really messed up. He says that I don't have the "Killer Instinct" to come in everyday to workout. I was explaining to him, when I did the P90X a year ago, I injured my shoulder and how I was in the middle of depression stage in my life, we never got into details. People handle depression and injuries their own way. Obviously everybody does not think the same way. This "friend" of mine has been skinny all his life and he decided to lecture me about not having a "killer mentality" to workout. I explained to him that if I jumped into something so fast rather than gradually work myself into things then I might fall off the wagon much faster than how I got on. Each time I go to the gym to workout I push myself further than I did the previous time before. For me I don't think I'm wrong for taking a slower methodical route. He was telling me how he was at a weight of 140 and went up to 180 and back down again. I want to see him at 275 and try to bring it down with the same mentality. The whole point of the way I workout is to eventually live a healthy life. He works out just to workout and eats whatever he wants. So he sits there doing his ab workouts on the machine while there's a can of coca cola sitting right next to him.
I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and work myself to the best of MY ability.