My Journey With Health And Fitness – Adapting To Mexico

We left Vancouver at 11:05pm on Saturday arriving in Cancun at 6:45am. When I booked this trip I thought this timing was perfect as we would be at the condo by 8:00am, have a quick breakfast then head off shopping. Once the shopping was done we would be able to kick back and relax the rest of the day. This was a very bad plan. I was so exhausted that when I did my shopping list I forgot 1/2 of what we needed and then in the grocery store I forgot 1/2 the things on the list. Seriously, I came back to the condo without milk and butter! I then got to the point in the early afternoon that I was literally falling asleep at my computer. I’d do the red eye flight again but next time I’ll get one of our neighbours to pick up a few necessities for us and hold off shopping until the following day.

I’ve posted before about how challenging it is to work out while I am here. This time I am more determined than ever to avoid giving into the urge of being lazy (I’ll have more to say about that when I get back home). I do hate running here in Mexico because it is so hot and humid but I can work around this. I have committed to 2 hours of walking at least 5 days a week while I am here and in a perfect world I will actually do 6 days a week. I do still want to do at least do a few days a week of interval running which is a good compromise at getting in some decent cardio workouts. I am also hoping to do some bike riding but I’ll be honest, I get a little bored riding around the complex and there is no way I will ride in the crazy traffic down here.

One of the obstacles I have already found is with regards to doing my weight training. At home I have 8 lb weights and I am up to doing 3 sets at 8 reps on my 4 weight exercises. Unfortunately here I can’t find any weights above 3 kg (6.6 lbs) and I don’t want to lose the momentum I have built using the heavier weights. So, I have changed it up to doing 3 sets of 15 reps. I’m pretty sure it is a fairly equal workout to what I have been doing at home because today by time I finished the last set my arms were really feeling it. I just have to make sure I keep at my weights at least 5 days each week and I should be fine.

Yesterday was a long day in terms of shopping and I admit there may have been a little to much alcohol involved. When my alarm went off this morning I was so tempted to just go back to sleep but then I thought hell no, if you give in this early in the trip your goals will be sunk. So up I got and off on a brisk 5k walk. Really, I felt better for it when I was done. So here’s to keeping to my commitment.