Hello again - I have spent the past year viciously doing extreme things with my body including Supreme 90 Day, P90X, and Insanity. I learned a lot about fitness an increased my belief in myself. However, continuously banging my body without a significant break had taken its toll. I have a recurring pain in my left shoulder that I did my best to try and ignore for months. It is not new but I'm sure that I have irritated something inside. I want to change my focus. These things I know: I LOVE Yoga and Running.
This New Year I am rethinking the way that I do things. I want to eat a plant-based diet - NO MEAT OR DAIRY! Can you believe that? Me? The Meatman? It's been a long process of slowly weeding out red meat and pork and only eating fish and poultry. Slowly changing things. Instinctively I know that my body will operate better without these things. Besides I watched this video: http://youtu.be/pNxcylWLEH8 . I really feel strongly about what I saw there.
So here are the objectives: I want to develop a daily yoga practice. I own several different yoga videos and have access to hundreds of podcasts through iTunes (check out yogadownload.com they have some 20-minute yoga sessions you can download and take with you - enough to do one per day for almost 2 months without repeating). I also ordered a couple more from amazon with a gift card I got for CHRISTmas.
The other goal is to train for a half-marathon. I don't think that I will be able to start a real training program until march or so but I want to maintain/regain the ability to run for 3 miles w/o stopping. This is the basic requirement for the 10-week plan I found.
I want to keep my goals focused on the input not the results. The goal is not
To do yoga everyday am achieve something through that - the goal is to try to do yoga in the morning. And listen to my body. The goal is to increase my running through the structured training program with a benefit of being able to run 13.1 miles. The increased running, increased yoga and better food choices should also affect my body composition but I do not want to make weight loss a goal this year. I want to come from a place of loving myself, not from a place of lack or not good enough. I have an intention of becoming more "mindful" and aware of the present moment. I want to live my life and enjoy it.
