For those who have been reading this week it will come as no surprise that I've missed out on sleep that I needed this week and fatigue is absolutely a factor in follow through. last night, I just wanted to go straight to sleep and skip prayers and scripture study. I reminded myself that I can keep it simple and read one verse, which while not ideal, is still making sure I'm keeping up that pattern at all and keeping a vote for my identity as a Child of the Covenant who makes time for these matters. My workout yesterday was also blunted by lack of sleep, but I worked in some running on my lunch break and on my way to work and a brisk walk home while also working in some bike riding and core work. Today I have have 3-5 sets of pull-ups to get through of which I've completed four sets already. I've also worked in some cycling sprints getting up to 32 MPH on my bike's monitor which is faster than my usual 30, so that's nice to see.

This morning I woke up at around 3:00 AM and really never fell back asleep. By 6:00 AM I figured I might as well get up and start my workout for the day. I started out with a set of 40 push-ups  and felt exhausted. I pushed on through a set of 40 kettlebell swings and a two-minute static squat (held a horse-stance pose for those familiar with this from martial arts). I found I was really struggling, but pushed through another two sets of forty push-ups each over the next hour. I spent a lot of time just sitting and thinking and being amazed how much time ticked by with so little to show for it. I decided to take some creatine this morning to help off-set the fatigue and help me power through my work day.

Going strong. I did have a disruption to my evening schedule that left me missing my evening scripture reading last night. I'll have to do better, if I can justify it to some extent. Morning prayers are getting stronger and daily exercise in small bursts is seeming reasonably locked in. Today was more pull ups, a set of 10, followed by a set of 9 +1, and then 6+3+1 with less than 20 seconds of rest between additions within a batch of ten. between sets I did cycling sprints and back extensions. This has me on the right schedule for these as last week I made some adjustments in the week that weren't perfectly scheduled for my routine.

Workouts have been pretty consistent in a minimal fashion. While I'd shifted to greasing the groove, I wasn't always doing enough round through the day to make up for the smaller amounts of work per work period - I'm thinking I should return to a greater focus on single bouts in the mornings again as my mornings should be able to be back on track here right away as the worst of my home repairs are now complete and no longer keeping me up into the night and squeezing out my morning time by forcing later sleep.

This morning I was back at it with greasing the groove activity for the morning (I did two rounds of 20 push-ups this morning and two rounds of 5 pull-ups with a few minutes of stretching between rounds and will return to doing more small bouts throughout the day of each). I made sure to get my bed mad and kneel for morning prayer and listened to 1 Nephi 21 as I was loading up the dishwasher that wasn't loaded last night. I also read a couple verses before last night. I'm hopeful to be back on track fully shortly as I think I'm beginning to see an end to my bathroom and kitchen repairs following our plumbing adventure.

Just a quick post this morning to state that I'm more or less staying on track, it's making the time to report on everything that is my limiting factor for right now. This was however the first morning in a while that I listened to scripture while unloading the dishwasher as my mornings have been squeezed and our kitchen hasn't been set right yet after our plumbing adventure. I've often been up late into the night finishing some mudding, sanding or painting sections and needing to clean things up again enough that my family can use the space enough to function the following day. These late nights have left me with later mornings and less time, so I've been doing grease the groove style workouts throughout the day and still reading my scriptures at night and saying my prayers.

My mornings have been thrown off with the kitchen being torn up. I've switched to a grease the groove style for my micro workouts for the time being. Throughout the day I aim to do at least four and ideally closer to six sets of push-ups and pull-ups using 20 repetition sets and 5 repetition sets respectively. I also sprinkle 2-minute wall sits throughout the day. It's not terribly hard, but it should be enough to make some progress or at least stave off losses and keep up the newly created habit.

Well I've really been putting these tiny habits to the test this last week or so as I've just had a lot of demands on my time and energy. I've managed to stay with things at least 90% throughout.