darrell916’s BodyBlog

Hello everyone, I am thinking about ordering the P90x DVD set for workouts.  I am thinking about doing this because right now with school, work and family life I am not having time to go to the gym like I should.  I am trying to find out everyones experiences about it good and bad and if anyone knows where to purchase if it is possible to purchase in a store.

For some reason I have the hardest time keeping goals that I set for myself.  I don’t know if I am setting them too far out or am I just not doing what I need to make the goal. I am starting to think that I am not going to make any of my goals that I set.  My last goal that I set for myself was to see some change in myself by Thanksgiving and so far I have not seen anything.  I know I have 3 weeks left to get this done, I am hoping that I can achieve this one goal for myself and then maybe I would have more confidence in myself.

I am really starting to wonder if weight lifting is even safe anymore.  The reason I say that is because within the past 3 weeks there have been freak accidents wofith athletes lifting weights.  I know everyone has probably has heard about the running back from USC bench pressing and the bar slipped and landed on his neck and was rushed into imediate surgery.  Just yesterday Fransico Garcia of the Sacramento Kings was lifting weights yesterday and broke his forearm.  He had surgery today.  Makes me wonder is it actually worth lifting heavy weights or lifting at all.  I know that you should always have someone spotting you when lifting heavy, but if a personal trainer that is hired and that’s their job can’t protect you what should you expect from the person that you get to spot you at the gym.

I guess I would say for the most part that I had been doing good coming home from the gym after work and having a very healthy dinner with grilled chicken or grilled fish, brown rice and a vegtable.  Until about 4 days ago, I go to the gym after work and come home and feel like I don’t want to eat at all.  I have to actually make myself eat a small bowl of rice because if I don’t know I will wake up in the middle of the night and eating all the wrong things.  I just don’t understand why all of a sudden that I just feel like not wanting to eat anything after my workouts.  I know I need to eat after my workouts because lately they have been going between 2 and 2.5 hours.  I am baffled by this all of a sudden.

I think I am feeling the need to write this because lately I have not been doing 100 percent of what I am suppose to be doing.  I would say that I have been doing I would say close to 70 percent of what I am suppose to do.  I know what needs to be done and I critize myself about it all the time.  I am tougher on myself than anything else in my life, and now I am going to have to give a 100 percent to make sure that everything is done.  I am most criticle on myself on days that I don’t go to the gym I feel like it is a wasted day because something was not done.  I have set a small goal to see changes in my body by Thanksgiving this year.  I will do this because I am tired of making lame ass excuses for myself and there is nobody stopping me but myself.

I have spent all weekend debating if I should go back to weight lifting on monday or should I continue to do another week of strictly cardio.

I have been working on a workout plan that I have been pretty consistant with for the 3 weeks, but this week has been the toughest week for me.  It is suppose to be a 3 month program, where this month I am lifting 4 days and doing cardio the other 3.  What I have noticed with myself when it has come to this week I have been struggling getting my cardio in and I just lifted for the first time today. 

And the past few days I have noticed that I beat myself up if I don’t go workout or I feel guilty.  I guess it is good to be that person because it makes sure that you go to the gym.  The funny thing is I went to the gym this morning a little later than my normal time and a guy that I normally just say hi noticed that I was a little late and just asked me if I was running late this morning.  I guess it is good to have that accountability from people at the gym.

But after all of this the good things that I notice is that I am now consistantly working out, even though I missed some cardio this week I will just have to push that much harder.  I am feeling alot better and that my diet is getting so much better.

I just want to thank everyone who leaves messages saying that you are doing a good job and keep up the hard work.  You really don’t know how much that can help someone push forward and not give up.

First, I want to say thank you to all the people in the gym who go by and say keep up the good work to the people that are working their butts off to lose weight and get into shape.  I actually had this happen to me yesterday morning when an woman came up to me and said great work.  That made me feel so great, that someone notices that you are working hard.

I have been doing great with my workouts and working hard.  I have noticed that my times in the gym are changing.  I have noticed for the past month I was getting to the gym at 7:30 in the morning and for the past week it has been becoming later and later.  I don’t know if I am getting lazy or if I am just not getting enough sleep and sleeping more.  I have started a new workout plan that has gotten me working hard and starting to think that it is finally going to work.

I have been using the Superpump 250 for the past month and a half consistantly in the morning before my workouts.  I have noticed that my eating habits have seriously changed.  I noticed that I am not as hungry as I was in the past.  For instance, I get up have my superpump on my way to the gym and when I get home I will do a packet of oatmeal and only eat half of it.  The next meal I will have will be lunch and then dinner.  My question is, is the superpump surpressing my appetite?

My biggest pet peave is cell phones at the gym.  I think that it is so annoying to be on your cell phone when you are working out, especially when they are on a machine that you are waiting for sitting there talking on the phone or texting.  Another think is talking on the cell phone when you are doing cardio, how are you suppose to get a good workout in distracted by the cell phone.  To me the time at the gym should be time away from your cell phone and in your own world.