April 20, 2012 8:16 PM HKT

Day 60

Patrick's training note from yesterday was dead on.  I went into this week ready to rock and feeling really good about how my body felt and where I was going.....and then this week life (work mainly) got into the way and I found myself falling into some of the traps Patrick described. I haven't done cardio the last three days (although I have done the mats...these new exercises have discovered muscles I didn't realize I had and made them ache.) because I have been busy and I have sold myself on the "Well....I really have been all over the cardio, I am really doing well there, a few days missing won't be a big deal."

Similarly I have been good about the diet, but I have had a few moments of weakness.  A dinner party last week where I ate sensibly but off program and had a beer.  A team lunch with Thai food this week where I ate mainly vegetables but still had rich sauces and probably a bit more than my allotment, a beer with an old colleague.  Little things like that where I am "letting myself off the hook" because I wake up and I like what I see.  I feel the belt notches off.  I'm in as good a physical condition as I have been in a long, long while.  I need to reinforce to myself that even though things are starting to look good I am still at a weight and body fat percentage that is just not healthy.  There is a lot of work to do.

I am still having this problem with my trap and shoulder.  I am doing the push exercises but I am going light - for the triceps dip I am using benches that come about halfway up my butt (ahem......phrasing) and I am not doing any "ground" push ups, just the deep incline.  The trap really seems more tied to travel on public transport - which I do constantly - but I have to figure out how to get rid of this, it is hurting my sleep.