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Well, first of all, Happy Veterans Day to all the vets, past and present, who read this. OK.  So, as is my dilema, I really cant do Yoga X or any Yoga really due to the fact that you need to have a place to calm down and get your mind right while doing it.  I have three kids 2 cats and a wife which make it impossible unless I am gonna get up at 4 Am to do Yoga.  Not gonna happen here.  So, instead of gaining an extra rest day, lol, I run instead.  Today I ran a full 5 miles. Alright, I RAN 4.75, and through out the run I walked a total of about a quarter mile.  Last time I tried to run it, and I told myself I was gonna run at least 5 maybe 6, I got about 2.5 miles into it and turned back the last quarter mile for a total distance of 2.75.  I just wasnt feeling it.  The next day when I did Legs and Back, I hit that wall that is prevelent at the end of the workout right smack dab after exercise 3. It was a LONG workout.  But, today I felt really good, dont feel to bad after the run, and maybe tomorrow I will feel better to get in a good workout in L&B.  I am down about 5 lbs from starting, 25 lbs from when I started doing something about my weight about 6 weeks ago, and I am well on my way to getting down under 220.  Thanks for listening, and again Happy Veterans Day!!! 

Wow, I forgot how bad Ab Ripper X was about an hour after you are done.  But, Shoulders and Arms was a good feeling when I got done.  They felt like Jello, but good nevertheless. I think the hardest part about this whole thing is the fact that I am always hungry.  Are there any things I can snack on that wont cause me to gain a whole lot of weight but satiate my hunger?  I am keeping on, but it was so much easier in Afghanistan when I wasnt tempted so much.  Oh well, tomorrow is another day.  Thanks for listening.

Well, once agan, The Big Weave will get back on the P90X Rodeo, and get fit.  Well, at least make a damn good attempt of it.  I have started week one already, but I will restart it on the 1st to line up the workout sheduler with my actual workouts.  Mainly because it wont let you backdate anything.  Which I understand, but if you dont know to get your ducks on the site in a row first before yo work out, then you screw yourself.  Oh well, you live and you learn.  Alas, getting back in shape is my number one goal for me. 

Some of you on here may have felt the same way as I have, probably most of you.  But I will ask the rhetorical question anyway. Have you ever looked in the mirror and just been thouroughly disgusted with what you have let yourself become?  If not, let me tell, you have no idea what it is like to see yourself as a Huge big pile of flabby, unfit, lazy goo.  It was even worse for me...is worse for me.  Why, you ask?  Two reasons.  First, I am a Soldier in the US Army..more than that, I am Staff Sergeant, a Non-Commissioned Officer, and most importantly, a Leader of Soldiers. How can I lead my men/women into combat looking the way I do.  I am unfit, slow, weak, and just plain unhealthy. If I considered myself a model Soldier, I would be a liar, and if I get onto others Soldiers for being unfit, I would be a hypocrit.  But getting onto them is my job.  So, I have to get this done.  The second reason it is worse for me, is the fact that while I was in Afghanistan, and had plenty of time I did the X and got fit.  More fit than I think I had been in my life. But here is the rub.  If I only do P90X when I have all day to schedule but cant sacrifice some time to get it done at home, then i am back to being hypocritical. 

SO, enough of the sulking.  This is the time to get fit and get back on the horse.  And, just maybe I can infect my wife with the workout bug.  Wish me luck, feel free to respond, encourage, yell at me if i slip.  And if there is anyone on Fort Eustis who wants to work out, send me a message.  Thanks for listening to me rant and drone on.  I look forward to telling about my progress.

Rick