Back on Track - Cycle 1 Phase 1 complete

Throughout my life, my parents and other family members have been great role models for my career, my moral values, and what I strive to be like one day. Physically, however, they have never been an inspiration. While neither of my parents are overweight, due to the daily exercise they do during their jobs walking, in addition to moderate exercise outside, neither has ever been in particularly great physical shape, or participated consistently in any sport since their childhoods. My sister, while again not in bad shape, has never been very consistently active.

Based on this, they actually view my desire to participate in the amount of physical and athletic activity that I already partake in as "too much." However, throughout high school, college, and my graduate career, I have had physical role models. Starting in high school, I had a friend who's dedication to basketball and physical fitness improved him from a very average player his freshman year, to a Division I scholarship on a team that would make the NCAA Sweet 16 his junior year. In college, I had a good friend and roommate who, despite his limited stature, showed such dedication to baseball and physical fitness, that he was consistently the one of the fittest people on the field, and led to his success his junior and senior year. And while in grad school, I had a very close friend in undergraduate, who's physical dedication since a very young age, in addition to freakish athletic ability, led him to great success in football and track and field.

Throughout my years, I have these people to look up to, as well as many others. They have led me to push myself, and achieve decent success throughout, as well as consistent improvement of myself. However, at this stage in my life, as I live at home, I must look to my friends of the past, as well as within for further motivation. I have mental images to strive to be closer, physically, to where they all were. Whenever I feel a bit lazy in focusing on P90x, as opposed to doing a more fun, and less intense physically activity, I can always look back to where their consistent hard work got them physically. P90x has many testimonials as to where their users have gone from day 0 to day 90. I completed the first cycle the second time with no hitches. Tomorrow is my off day, and then cycle 2 begins on Thursday. All systems go.