Day 91

Week 12, Day 4 Triometrics done. Today was good and I did burn those quads good. I had some left knee issues today and it started 2 days ago with MMX. When doing the back kicks my knee kind of popped and I felt it. I just stopped putting any exertion in my kicks with that leg and I was able to finish the workout. Yesterday doing upper body I didn't even notice anything with my knee and totally forgot about it until that first sumo kick. I was able to do my flying warrior squats and iso squats without any issues, and moving around I don't feel pain or with walking and extension etc. I do feel it on more of the inside of my knee as I sit here hammering this post out, but I have pilates tomorrow and I am sure it will feel better on Saturday.

Saturday I will be doing Eccentric Upper and then I have a 5k to do. I don't know yet how I will do with running and am a bit anxious. Not running since 1995 because of my back and now trying to put myself into that now makes me nervous, but I am sure I will know what I can and can't do right away. I have been increasing the amount of "air" I get with jumping since starting X3 and now with the burpees, I am actually getting my body off the ground. I want to be back to that point of doing jumping moves and running and not having fear and if I get some pain, just do what I know I can do for that acute pain and get it under control quickly. I am sure that as I lose more weight, it will be easier and easier to take care of.

I have been fortunate enough to reconnect with some people from Dallas or that lived in Dallas 10 years ago that I knew and worked with in the medical field. It was nice to talk to the ones I have talked to and hope that I can reconnect with the others I have been trying to reconnect with. It seems weird to pop up on the radar all of a sudden, but I really never put much effort into staying connected with a bunch of them. One I have been friends with on FB for some time, but never really looked for the rest. I do miss some of my friends from that time in my life, which was a difficult one for me.

My life is going in a direction that I am happy about overall. I need to get working and that is something I am working on as well. I feel very good about what I am doing with my nutrition and fitness, but I can always do more there. I know that my personal development is a "work in progress" and I am completely open to the positive influences and try to be a positive influence instead of negative. If you put in negative that is what you get out. It works the same the other way. Put in positive and get out positive. Garbage in = garbage out. I try to fill myself with positive, motivational and inspirational things and in turn I hope it will be a positive, motivational or inspirational thing for others. I had been a negative person for so long. I allowed my situation to dictate how and who I was. I now dictate how, who I am and will be with my personal development that I try to do every day.