TheLegendsLeague | Bryan Espiritu

Aight guys and gals, it’s been a long time since The Beer Weight Experiment, The Sober 165, and The 5 Minute Me. You’ve been incredibly patient, and I’ve been waiting and waiting to see what I could do for my next LegendsLeague Project. I’ve thought to do this for almost a year now, but to be honest, I’ve been scared to commit to it. But after spending all of May in California and realizing that I have gotten into some of my worst habits in my day-to-day living, and definitely into the worse shape of my life, I’ve decided to take on my poor practices, my bad routines, and the grueling P90X workout in a project I call, “The BS of My Life”.

From June 1st – September 1st, my goal is simple – Get rid of The Bull Shit of My Life and get into The Best Shape of My Life.

The plan is as follows:

Cut out what has brought me down, and enjoy what brings me up, all the while dedicating my physical fitness to completing the P90X Fitness DVD set that I got nearly a year ago.

Over the next few months I will be giving you guys weekly updates on my progress towards my most serious goal to get to my own personal bests physically and mentally, and be truly, truly happy with my way of living.

I have taken very serious considerations into my dietary choices for this project, cutting out all red meat and pork, taking multivitamins and supplements to assist my cardiovascular health and overall physical wellness, and taking note in regards to my daily caloric intake. I am not following the P90X Nutrition Guide to a tee, but I am using it as a guideline for my choices.

My routines in my daily life in regards to partying, socializing, and drinking will also change. The feeling of necessary attendance at events will be replaced with only being out if and when I feel I need and/or want to be. I will spend more quality time with the friends whom I value most, and drink in a responsible fashion rather than bingeing. My old routines of buying 6 packs of Heinekens at the bar will come to an end, as will buying rounds for groups of people who would never do the same for me. I have considered quitting drinking altogether for this project, but I think I’ll go absolutely insane if I do that, so we’ll see. The goal is to keep drinks down to a maximum of 3 times a month.

One basic life rule has been implemented in my way of living:

Consider when the value of something is worth less than the space it takes up.

With this in mind I will not keep things around the house that are unnecessary, I will clean things up as soon as they need to be cleaned, ie. dishes, laundry, dusting, sweeping, etc., and I will bring old and/or unused clothes to the Salvation Army box rather than keeping them around for sentimental value or the promise of fitting them into some nice outfit I’ve got conjured up. Yeah, this all seems basic enough, but I guarantee you 90% of the people you know don’t do this. (I’m lucky my girl is amazing at keeping shit clean, so I’ve got the best role model).

My goals for the P90X program will be based on what I find I can and cannot do once everything has been started. I know from having the DVD set for so long and doing a few of the workouts that I can’t do everything in the Ab Ripper X workout and the Yoga X DVD, so one of my main goals by the end of this all is to be able to complete those 2 workouts front to back, doing all reps and movements/poses. In regards to my weight, I’ve given myself my toughest goal out of any project I’ve done on the blog – 160lbs. I haven’t been that light in a while, and I am giving myself arguably the hardest starting point I have ever had.

Everything else within The BS of My Life is mental. How do I cope with stress? How do I respond to frustrating scenarios? What am I holding myself back from? I recently stumbled upon a set of 2 CDs that I was given by my old friend Mike Mulligan almost 3 years ago. I had never listened to them or read the attached note. The note said that when the time was right to listen to the CDs, I should do so on my own, in a quiet place. When I put them into my iTunes, I realized it was something called, The Psychology of Winning. The irony of my coming across these CDs and my goals for The BS of My Life is amazing, and I’m sure that I’ll be using much of what I hear in those CDs for motivation to continue on with what I’m putting myself up against.

This isn’t only the most difficult project I’ve given myself, it is also the longest in terms of time which make the probability of struggling and relative failure or faltering a little higher. I’ll need quite a bit of determination, patience, and focus to get through this, but something that I’ve said in the past is helping me through it all:

Sometimes it’s easier for us to avoid what we don’t want to be than it is for us to get to where we’d like to be.

When the times get tougher, I have my starting point in mind. We’ve gotta fall before we get up. But it’s time.

If any of you are interested in doing this with me, or have any questions, please post them in the comments section. I’ll be more than happy to answer what I can.

I’m stripping my life down to bare essentials and the things that keep me motivated, happy and inspired to do more with myself. Everything else is unneeded and unwanted bullshit.

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