June 23, 2012

2012 | Day 171: You make me SMILE


MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

YOUR Journey

Your life is YOUR life. Your Journey is YOUR journey. You are YOUR competition. You are the ONLY one who knows exactly what is going on with YOU.

Never mind what anyone else’s life is like - concentrate on your OWN. Everyone has their issues - trials and triumphs - but you need only concern yourself with your OWN. You may feel tempted to interject your opinion in another’s life - look instead to your OWN and see what you can scrutinize. There is no one else making the decisions in YOUR life - only YOU, so do not look to anyone else, because it is not their role to play.

Only YOU can walk your journey in life. You are not given what you are so that you can COMPARE it to another, but so that you can GROW and BECOME what you are MEANT to be. The challenges you face along the way, every experience you go through, are all intended so that you LEARN and ultimately to CREATE A BETTER YOU.

When you focus on making YOURSELF better, then you help OTHERS become better. The sum of your life experiences makes you UNIQUE, gives you something no one else has, so that you can USE those experiences to hold OUT a helping hand to others who may have or be experiencing a similar situation. You are meant to SHARE NOT COMPARE. Life is meant to be walked through WITH others, not AGAINST them.

Quote for Reflection:

TRAINING

HIT:
a. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
b. Burpees (into push-up) x 1 min
c. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
d. Ab Rollout x 1 min
e. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
f. Skip x 1 min
g. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
h. Push-Ups (with alternate side rotation) x 1 min
i. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
j. Deadbug (with 10-pound medicine ball) x 1 min
k. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
l. Skip x 1 min
m. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
n. Single-Leg (Right) Deadlift (with lateral twist and reach) x 1 min
o. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
p. Single-Leg (Left) Deadlift (with lateral twist and reach) x 1 min
q. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km x 1 min
r. Plank x 1 min
s. Treadmill @ 3.75 min/km
t. Skip x 1 min

Stretch 20 min

OTHER NOTES

Sleep: Did not go to bed until just before 0400, unable to get to sleep until then, and even still, well awake for quite some time after, getting only a few hours sleep, waking feeling completely shattered and not feeling like doing much at all.

Mood: Someone noted today that I seemed happy, not at all like I used to be when they knew me "before". Must be all the smiling

Energy: Picked up a little as I worked today, but after training I was just so exhausted I didn't feel like doing a thing. Started feeling better after eating in the evening.

Joints: SHOULDERS - especially anterior deltoid and right posterior deltoid.

Quality of Training: What can I say - I did it, a wet and dripping mess from half-way through, struggling to breathe at times.