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Time to get right back into the mix. Recovery week is over and it’s the holidays. Not necessarily a good combination.

As I predicted eating was definitely touch and go over the holiday. Partly because I love my gran’s cooking but mostly because my willpower wasn’t exactly where it should have been. I’d like to see if you can resist my mom and gran ganging up on you with chocolate, turkey, buns, and various other desserts and treats. Diet was really a negative the last little while.

The workouts

It was really great to be doing different exercises again and mixing up the muscle groups that were being worked each day. Progress in my chest, arm, and shoulder strength seems to be getting significantly better and it’s more noticeable now than it has been the past two months.

Where I’m not seeing quite as much improvement is in my back strength — mostly with pull ups. I’m not saying there is no improvement, it just seems like I’m not pushing myself as hard as I should be. This will change in the next couple weeks.

Yoga is becoming much easier as well. The great majority of it at least. The warrior three sequence gets me every single time. My goal was to be able to make it through yoga x with no breaks by the end of three months. That’s still a goal.

Consistency

Throughout the past two and a half months I’ve been able to keep very consistent with my workouts. Always working out in the morning. If I missed a workout in the morning I’d do it at night as soon as I could. To this point I’d only missed two workouts due to illness.

Christmas is a different creature though. I took Christmas (Thursday) off this year and skipped that day’s workout. To make up for it I did Christmas day’s workout the day after, on Friday. The rest of the week didn’t work out so well. The day after catching up (Saturday) was a travel day and I was bagged, so I skipped that day’s workout as well. And nobody likes to workout on Sunday right?

Almost finished

As I write this I’m midway through week 10. That means there’s only two and a half weeks left. My goals for the final couple weeks are:

• Push myself as hard as possible with pull ups
• Be more consistent in eating the right foods
• Finish strong

Simple goals but important nonetheless.