DAY 3

As I woke up this morning still tired from a fairly intense aikido session on Tuesday night, getting out of bed felt like a hard thing to do. But oddly not so much from current tirenedness, or as a result of the temptation to skip my 30mins morning zazen in order to get a bit of extra rest ahead of the morning PCP workout, but from fast forwarding and thinking, how will I cope with this 1 month down the line, when the workout is not a "Mickey Mouse" one and when the diet becomes more restrictive? I dont want to compromise my morning zen practice, which gives structure to the day, but I know I will feel increasingly tired. In my days of serious and gruelling gym workouts I used to give myself the benefit of 10hrs of sleep to avoid overtraining and help muscles recover and "grow", but then I was at university, living the careless life of a student with no commitments in my life. Now, with 6 or 7 hours of sleep if I am lucky, this is going to be tougher. As longer workouts, extra meal planning/cooking time, and increased need for rest loom ahead I feel I need to start replanning around the little available spare time that I have...It will be hard alone giving up bad food and other "unhealthy" habits to also reduce the amount of zazen, aikido, sleep or more importantly quality time with my wife; all of the things that make long and hard work hours more bearable...