PSOX:The workout blog

You will notice the title of this blog is no longer P90X Workout Journal.  I dropped the ball on this blog and P90X for several reasons ranging from sloth to life events.

I kept up the P90X through about 30 days (not consecutive though), but then disaster struck.  I was running one night, and an improperly set sidewalk segment with a very high lip caught my toe and sent me tumbling.  This wouldn’t have been catastrophic, but the segment in question angled down to the road about 45 degrees so that my upper body fell flew an additional 1.5 feet or so before impact.  I thought I broke something, and my arm was pretty much useless for much of anything for a month or so, but I just damaged soft tissue according to the doctors.  I went through several weeks of rehabilitation and got back full range plus or minus a few degrees of extension.  I credit P90X for making me strong enough that it wasn’t a worse injury.  My workout routine and motivation in general fell apart after this event.  I am wary of pull ups, and I haven’t done push ups.  However, I am using free weights again and building some strength.

Anyway, I am starting to exercise anew with the warm spring season upon me, and I want to salvage this blog and make it a home again for general exercise.  I am eschewing calorie tracking for sensible portioning and regular exercise.  If you go all the way back to the first post on here you’ll see mention of foot numbness from running.  I have finally determined that this is due to over-pronation issues on one side, and I spent so much time at the orthopedist that I know they can make some good custom orthotics for this kind of stuff.  I plant to get some of these after I move, but for now I am using the aid of some off the shelf arch supports for running.

Since I last blogged:

• I got married
• I went to Disney World (honeymoon) with a fancy dining plan (I do not advise this for those trying to keep weight off)
• I am about to move to another state
• I stopped running altogether
• A work project of over two years is culminating in a milestone (although it will probably never go away completely, see FUBAR).  It is worth mentioning that I am going to be telecommuting from my new home state to my current job.  I do not know how long this will last, but my wife and I will be living off my income alone for the next few months and the job market sucks for now so I had to do what I had to do.
• I am about to turn 25
• I am way out of shape
• My wife is graduating from law school (see sugarmama)

I noticed some readers have added this blog to their RSS feed, and I hope I didn’t let anyone down (besides myself).  I may post less regularly than I was when I started (I don’t know that daily posts are maintainable), but I will find my stride and try to post interesting health/fitness info, my personal experiences, and what has been working for me lately.