Set backs, how to deal!

danirosevoelkel
danirosevoelkel Posts: 511 Member
in Motivation and Support
I was doing great, in week seven of P90X3, losing weight, gaining muscle, everything was wonderful and I was alive and full of energy. Then this sickness came over me and I was useless. It's been a week now and I don't have the energy and or the stamina to do anything! I feel like I've undone everything I worked so hard for and feel like giving up. I don't want to start over but I feel like maybe I should. I'm definitely starting block two over and I hope that will be good enough. I'm also in training for a Spartan race and wanted to start Couch 2 5K and a burpee calendar... I feel like I just lost my footing and I can't get back up!

How do you come back after such a huge set back? I should be in transition week right now and preparing for block 3!! Not starting day 1 of block 2 again. I'm just down I guess. Back to the DR today since nothing is helping.

I don't want to give up! I want to finish and get back on the horse but right now it feels impossible...

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  • Amanda_Gx6
    Amanda_Gx6 Posts: 320 Member
    One step at a time. I was down for the count the other week with a monstrous head cold - not fun! I didn't go to the gym, I didn't pay attention to what I was eating nada! But once I felt better I just sucked it up and started small, light workouts eating better and then stepped it up to a harder workout kept with my food plan. You just have to step back and reassess what you need to do and get it done. Hope you're feeling better
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,077 Member
    Such is life. If everything could be perfect, there wouldn't be any need to try to improve. And that's why challenges are just that.............challenges.
    Take a step back and reassess the situation. Understand that sometimes things just happen that you don't have control over. You then just go where you can. Attempting higher intensity when you're not ready will result in ANOTHER setback. So take the low road and complete what you haven't first.

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  • oedipa_maas
    oedipa_maas Posts: 577 Member
    Tell yourself this isn't a "huge setback." It really isn't. You spent a week taking care of your body in a different way--giving it a chance to heal. Try to remind yourself that you've been doing fantastic work and in order to keep doing fantastic work you need to re-frame how you see your illness.

    Your weakness and lack of stamina might mean you're still getting over your illness. Perhaps for a week you should do more gentle exercise and ramp yourself up to more intense exercise.

    So much of this is mental in the sense that you're feeling like a failure. You're not. You can get back up there. Just don't let your brain tell you that you blew it.
  • danirosevoelkel
    danirosevoelkel Posts: 511 Member
    Thanks guys, I just feel like Karma's got it out for me. My car was also in the shop and just found out that it isn't worth it to fix it which means that I will have to get another one. I just wish life could, i don't know, be a little kinder to me...

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