I hit a magic number on the scale this morning and I’m very excited. And it really won’t make sense to anybody except me. But with all of my roller coastering over the last 7 to 10 months I’ve never been able to get it down to 217. I have been as high as 230 lb and as low as 218 pounds but I’ve never been able to see 217 in over a year. And this morning when I got on the scale it was  217.6 and that made me very happy.

Then I saw myself in the mirror and got all pissed off again. What are you going to do?

So I’m getting a little bored on my workouts. And that’s to be expected as we are approaching the end of week 3. And I need to do something new anyway because my body will have adjusted to everything that was going on. Having a tough time getting motivated to go out and hit the bag like I have been. I kind of want to start mixing something else in. So I have ordered myself a speed bag, which I needed to do anyway. That will really help with the variety. And I have ordered a set of 1 1/2 in., 40 ft long battle ropes. I know from experience that those will thoroughly kick my ass. It’s kind of a weird thing because I can’t wait for them to get here but I’m also dreading the fact that they’re on the way.

Now all that being said, I let my frustration get the best of me today and I went a little too hard. Instead of using the 16oz gloves on the heavy bag, I switch to the 4oz MMA gloves so that my hands were free to skip rope. And I hit the heavy bag for 90 seconds as hard as I could and then skipped rope for 90 seconds took a one-minute break and repeated all of that 10 times. At least I tried to get to 10 times. On number eight I almost passed out so I had to stop. So yeah, that was pretty stupid.

It was just a good reminder that this is a marathon and not a Sprint. Frustration can slow you down. Overdoing it can make it worse. If you’re having a bad day don’t take it out on your workouts. Try to stay focused. Try to stay in the moment. Something is better than nothing. Every single thing that you do positively will affect your body positively and everything you do negatively will affect your body negatively. It is really that simple. Is what I’m doing or what I did today good for me or bad for me? That is what this is all about.

I’m going to go drink a big glass of water and watch some basketball. I hope you guys have a great Tuesday. Also I can’t believe it’s only fucking Tuesday.

Peace