#dearmarch

>>---- Journal Entry for March 1st, 2016 --->

Hey everyone! Welcome to another crazy month of 2016

So, I tried to post a video on YouTube to tell you the down low of this March’s shenanigans, but unfortunately my phone isn’t really inept in speed and efficiency that it should be so I had to give it up and just come straight here!

Not a bad thing, actually it forces me to communicate in the best way I can, so I guess the universe isn’t TOTALLY against me.

ANYWAY!

This month marks the last official month of me being a civilian. In just a little over a month and some days, I will finally be all packed up and ready to ship out to Lackland AFB, TX on April 19th for BMT. I’m super stoked and I couldn’t feel more ready but of course my mind doesn’t like to take consideration that my body needs a bit of down time to fully grip what I’m about to get myself into. 

This month, I will be officially done working for Vans (so bittersweet.) so I will have an entire month to myself. During these now freed up spaces of time, I will be filling them with much needed down time to do things that I enjoy like spending it with family, reflecting, working out and training, studying/reading, and writing! 

This is my month! I’m about to take it DOWN and OWN IT like a Boss Stage that got nothing on me! LEVELS, my friends! 

To much of peoples knowledge, military discipline and training is much more than a physical aspect. Of course it’s gonna help me out A LOT being physically fit to perform exercises for PT, but I’d be burned out FAST without endurance. Everything at BMT is mind games, including PT in the early AM (Usually around 0500 or 0600 every morning.) so that means being able to be connected and in control of my brain at all times is very important for me to survive the 8 week game. EVERYTHING at Basic Training is time sensitive, there is literally so much to get done in a day that it has to for things to be done in time.. so to be able to tell yourself to keep pushing even when your body is literally screaming to give up is crucial for success.

So, how the heck am I gonna prepare myself for that!?

Well, let me tell you exactly what I have gotten myself into THIS month.

So I am partaking in my VERY FIRST FITNESS CHALLENGE this March!

This challenge is going to kick my endurance, strength, and confidence into SUPER SHAPE! My main objective also includes that this will up my positivity levels as well since it is so important to stay hopeful and determined during long exhausted periods of time. It’s what helps you keep going and helps you perform at your best even when it seems to be dragging..

The Challenge of the month will be 28 days of CRAZINESS to put my body through torture it has never known.

I’ve been working out for a while now, I recently got back into it when I moved down to Arizona last summer and since then, I guess you can say I’m already pretty fit. Well, let me tell you also, that I have kind of been cheating my body and not getting in as much cardio endurance as I should have because time has just not on my side. So that’s totally gonna change since NOW I only have free time and because I have committed my time (and money) to sign up for the #PIIT28 challenge created by one of my favorite people in the world: Cassey Ho from @Blogilates .

For the next 28 days of March, I will be only working out for 28 minutes and 40 seconds a day for 6 days a week for 4 weeks. I know, it sounds easy... But let me assure you...it’s not. PIIT is a program that was created by Cassey and her awesome team at Blogilates HQ for those of us who have the constant excuse of “not having time.” (I know. me too..)

 If you are a part of the fitness world you should know what HIIT is, so it won’t be hard to explain that PIIT is pretty much Pilates + HIIT. It’s basically mixing in cardio with the no-equipment body strength training that Pilates is in HIGH REPS.

H.I.I.T. is --> High Intensity Interval Training

P.I.I.T. is --> Pilates Intensity Interval Training (Pretty self explanatory it you ask me.)

So anyway, this stuff is NOT easy and keeping your body from stopping is so difficult to do, especially when you’re seeing the sweat off your body just drip all over the floor. 28 minutes is surly enough to kill your muscles. But I am so stoked to be a part of this amazing program to get my body and mind ready for pretty much world domination. (I’m pretty excited for that.)

In order to track my progress and keep my motivation up, I have made my very own fitness Instagram apart from my personal one, so if you wanna check it out and help support me on this endurance challenge, go ahead and hit me up @PIITPrincessinVans on Instagram!

& If you want to join me and the POPster community you can check out Cassey on her YouTube channel Blogiates or go straight here---> https://www.piit28.com/a/788/2yKzoCnk  to learn more about the #PIIT28 Challenge and what exactly it entails. If you join me, I promise you’ll hate me but love me & thank me in the end. (;

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So besides all that, I will be using the rest of my free time packing my things into moving boxes, because after I come home from Technical School, it’ll be yet another uproot from another home. But as a military brat, I am conditioned to know that home is where the heart is and where the love is, and my heart is with friends and family all over the place that I know that I will always find home where ever I am.

So until later, Arrows. Wish me luck!

And good luck to all of you in your life everyday. No matter how small and insignificant a moment may seem, make sure you DO NOT take it for granted and to live your best life. You are all beautiful, wonderful...

& Remember;

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