Day 15: It’s All About The Journey

After a couple weeks of doing these new routines and habits, they are certainly starting to get easier to remember to do, and I can already start to feel the compounding positive benefits. Mondays are generally my day off from exercising, and I find my mind and body wanting to fill any potential extra time in my day today with more meditation, earthing, motivational speeches, etc., getting creative in how to add them into my day while still doing my normal duties (such as working with my remote personal training clients and doing laundry/work emails/child care, etc.) by inviting my kid to try meditating with me and by listening to a motivational speech while taking a shower.

Morning stats

Yang/firing up:

Yin/cooling down:

  • morning mantra: “My body is rested and my mind is clear. Today is going to be a great day.”
  • 3 minute meditation
  • 20 minutes earthing
  • 10 minutes of foam rolling and stretching

Day 14: Celebrate Small Victories

Grateful for my best mountain training run ever (16 miles with nearly 4,000 feet of elevation, in under 3 hours) yesterday, followed by an hour and a half run with hill sprints today. Sometimes setbacks help us appreciate how great things are when there aren’t any setbacks!

Morning stats

Yang/firing up:

  • high-five in the mirror
  • stood on one leg while brushing teeth, to activate glutes
  • cold shower
  • motivational speech https://youtu.be/_u2qggffbYM
  • 90 minute run with hill sprints worked in

Yin/cooling down:

  • morning mantra: “My body is rested and my mind is clear. Today’s going to be a great day.”
  • 3 minute meditation
  • 20 minutes of earthing (while reading – what a wonderful combo to sneak in while my child entertains herself making mudpies!)
  • 20 minutes in compression pants
  • 10 minutes of cupping, gua sha, and trigger point therapy work

Evening update

  • One hour of strength training and Higher Grounds Athletics mobility work, including 3 x 18 pushups (54 total)

Day 13: Getting It Done

Morning stats

Yang/firing up:

  • high-five in the mirror
  • stood on one leg while brushing teeth, to activate glutes
  • motivational speech https://youtu.be/2GS_gsd98r4
  • 3 hour mountain run

Yin/cooling down:

  • morning mantra: “Today I take bold action to upgrade my life and raise my standards.”
  • 5 min Hypervolt muscle massage session
  • forgot to meditate in the morning so I challenged myself to do a “moving meditation “ for 2 minutes while I ran, just focusing on my breath (it lasted about 15 seconds)
  • 10 minute stretch

Day 12: Making Progress

In less than two weeks, I’m already doing significantly more push-ups and pullups, but even more important, my focus feels improved, thanks to meditation, earthing, and getting top priorities done earlier in the day. Good energy, good vibes. Thanks for reading this and helping to hold me accountable!

Morning Stats

Yang/firing up:

  • high-five in the mirror
  • stood on one leg while brushing teeth, to activate glutes
  • cold shower
  • motivational speech “Why Am I Even Alive?” https://youtu.be/LIF5BnugxYM
  • one hour cross train (spin bike with a bit of incline treadmill hiking)
  • pullups 3 x 14, 11, 9 (34 total)
  • pushups 3 x 17 (51 total)

Yin/cooling down:

  • morning mantra: “I have enough time and energy for everything I need and want to do today.”
  • 2 minute meditation
  • 8 minute foam roll
  • 6 minute Hypervolt muscle massager
  • 5 minutes yoga (on the carpet in the hallway, listening to my daughter sing and splash in the bathtub)

Day 11: Getting in a Groove

Starting to look forward to my daily motivational speech, some stretching/yoga, and my latest addition to the day: earthing. (As for cold showers, I can’t say I look forward to those quite yet, and meditation is still a struggle, through I certainly feel good when I’m done with both. )

Morning stats

Yang/firing up:

  • high-five in the mirror
  • stood on one leg while brushing teeth, to activate glutes (this is turning into a habit, and no longer takes any thought)
  • motivational speech: https://youtu.be/UpVOZXMzCwQ
  • one hour and 25 minute run, with some sandbag carry practice worked in
  • cold shower

Yin/cooling down:

Evening update

  • One hour strength/skills workout at Cerus Fitness
  • 10 minute stretch/mobility work