Day 72 and 73 Recap

It is amazing to witness how quickly the time passes by when you are working on major goals and objectives. Here it is the early hours of Thursday morning and literally feels like the week just started.

I remember when I was working in my old career and was not super thrilled about the job, the week would go by SO slowly. Thursday afternoon was sort of a mental target for me. Once Thursday afternoon hit, I would get more excited and know that there was only 1 work day left until the weekend. Often, Fridays would be lighter in terms of workload so it was usually an easy progrssion to the weekend.

Now, I honestly can not differentiate between a Saturday and a Wednesday. The concept of 'weekend' doesn't really apply to me anymore. I work every day of the week. I also have the freedom to not work any day of the week so it is a new mindset altogther. For the record, the new way of living is WAY better :)

I just published my latest article that touches on this topic. I really enjoyed writing this article because it allowed me to reflect on some of the personal development I have done on myself.
Here is the article: http://www.igniteyouressence.com/trading.html

As for my 90 day challenge, I was back to the gym again for days 72 and 73.

Day 72 was the first time in a long time where I focused only on muscle development and weight lifting. I did not do any cardio (my legs needed a break). I did about 40 minutes of medium weight arm exercises followed by a number of sets of abs.

Now that is Day 73 and I have had a chance to recover from that workout, I am surprised that my muscles do not really hurt at all. Having not really worked them out in a few weeks I was anticipating at least some soreness. I guess my recovery rate is much higher now that I am on this 90 day program.

As for fitness on day 73, I did about a 30 minute basketball workout. Shootingm running and jumping drills. I definitely did not push myself as hard as usual but I also noticed I was running out of steam faster than I typically do. I'm guessing it is more a sign of fatigue than anything else. The other factor is that is extremely cold and snowy in Ontario and the cold air sometimes takes a few workouts to adapt to.

Day 74 will be back to my regular Thursday night men's league basketball so I am looking forward to that. But it also looks like I will have at least an hour of snow shovelling to take care of before I do that (it has been coming down for a few days now).