Round 2 started!

This week is the 2nd round of p90x and wow is it pretty hard!  The workouts are more intense than I could have imagined.  Big pain leads to big results though and I couldn’t be happier with the way things are going!  My body is sore but still responding very well to the workouts that i’m doing.  It’s all part of the “muscle confusion” technique that is facilitated in the workouts.  It switched up the workouts.  Instead of the chest and back routine, it’s not chest and shoulders etc.  I’m doing different muscle groups on different days and also doing totally different exercises that are ridiculous.  I’m doing one armed push ups, one armed pull ups, insanity!!!

The pics will be up soon and I will keep it updated a little better.  The diet is going superb and so is the slimming of the midsection!

 

Cheers!

No worries….recovery week!

Hi all!

It’s been a very long time since my last post.  This week is the recovery week and simply doing a lot of stretching and preparing the body for the next phase in the workouts.  I’m excited to start next week…it totally looks crazy hard.  The diet has been going fairly well.  The hardest part is the evenings.  I love to eat at night and that’s the worst time to eat   O well i’ll just have to try harder.  At the end of the week…Sunday…I post the 30 day pictures!  Hopefully you all can see results!

Cheers!

Day 16 & 17: Plyos, shoulders, and arms

Hey all…

This is another delayed blog b/c I was trying to upload the pictures and put them side by side for the two week mark…but of course it wasn’t working.  I got frustrated, quit, and forgot to blog of my experiences.  So as of today, February 26, 2009, I have lost 10 pounds.  I am doing very well on the diet and continue to work very hard on the workouts. 

As for the past 2 days of workouts, I noticed that I upped my weight in the dumbbells by 5 lbs in each exercise and did more reps in the exercises such as tri-rise and also chair dips.  I’m really feeling good today about my progress.  I have gone from a big 171 to a nice workable 161.  I hope to maybe be around 155.  6 more lbs is all I need!  It will be hard to hit that b/c as I continue weight training I will gain some muscle mass and put on the weight (I hope).  So it will be hard for me to get down to the 155.  The important thing is putting on lean muscle mass and continuing to diet and eat right! 

Also in the plyos I have picked up the intensity of the workouts.  They are super hard and yet I really enjoy them b/c when you work hard you sweat a lot and get results.  This weekend I am going away so it will be another rough test on the diet and the workout, but i’m sure I can do it.  I’m not going to let 2 days of leaving jtown ruin what i’ve been working on.  Then again, a cheater meal is always ok as long as you don’t overdue it and work hard the next day during your workout! 

Also, i’m going to switch out the yoga on Thursdays and do it on Sundays.  I wanted to do cardio on Thursday b/c the yoga I don’t think burns enough calories and is a great recovery workout!  Until next time…

Cheers!

Day 15: Chest and Back

So this will be the last time I do this workout until week 9.  Chest and back was one of my favorites in that it really let you gauge how well you are doing w/ the program.   I can say that since week 1, I can do more pushups and more pullups, as well as upping the weight on the dumbbell exercises.  All in all I would say that this has been a successful first 3 weeks.  I still have the rest of the week to go until I hit week 4 which is the recovery week which focuses on streatching and doing core work. 

As far as the actual workout, I did great.  As I said, I upped everything that I did before as well as did as good if not better on the second round of the workout.  In case I didn’t mention before the workout is in 2 sections, you do the first section then the second is the first just reversed.  So to go w/ a lot of intesity and then continue to keep that same intensity as well as surpass it was awesome.

Then came the ab ripper which of course is terrible.  I have to say that I dread this workout the most out of all of them.  It is so freaking hard, and the video doesn’t really inspire you very much.  They can keep their balance and also do everything sooo quick.  Hopefully when I graduate from the 90 day program I can say that I will do the same too, but we’ll see.

The diet went fairly well until the evening.  I went to the bistro and had a taco salad (not bad really) and 2 wing dings . WOOPS!  I blame kevin for that, b/c he had 4 and I wanted one sooo bad.  It shouldn’t hurt too bad though.  I will burn off those calories and then some w/ the workout today.  Until tomorrow…

Cheers!

Day 12, 13, 14: Legs, Kenpo, and Doubles

Hi all!

I decided since it was the weekend to take a break w/ the blogging and just keep working out.  I’ll update you on the entire weekend now! 

I have to say that I think the carb deficiency is getting to me now.  That and I have only had 6-7 hours of sleep over the last couple of nights.  It has effected the intensity of my workouts I think.  As a result, I have been struggling.  Saturday was the worst probably.  During Kenpo, done at 6am, I felt sluggish and heavy.  I didn’t have th pep that I normally do.  Boo hiss!  After that we went to the Men’s bfast down at the church.  When I got back I felt energized and did the Cardio X workout and was super satisfied.  It was super tough and combined all the core elements of the workouts w/o resistance.  It was a truly great cardio workout! 

Sunday wasn’t too bad.  After church I went and did another Cardio X and then did some Yoga X  It was a long 2 and a half hours, but it was good to know I busted my tail this weekend even though my diet lacked a little bit.  I went to Chiles and even though I ate a lean meal, it still wasn’t as good as I could have eaten.  O well!  I’m going to take 2 week p ictures and see if I can notice any results from my hard work.  I think I might!  Until then…

Cheers

Day 9: Plyometrics

Hi all!

Day 9 was filled w/ more jumping and squatting and breathing a lot.  Plyometrics round 2 was up and it was a lot more fun than last week.  I had more energy to do it this time seeing as how the routine was the same and I knew what to expect, and I pushed myself a lot harder this week than I did last week.  It’s definitely easier come week 2 b/c knowing what to expect out of the workout, you can gauge your energy levels and your intensity of your workout.  This week for plyos I went a lot harder to start out.  The routines called for faster and harder movement if you could, so I did.  By the middle of the workout I was sucking lots of wind and really feeling the burn in my legs and hips…but it was awesome.  I like sweating a lot and working hard for good results.

For the diet I really focused more on cutting out the carbs.  I had only 2 pieces of toast and the rest were carbs that were naturally in other foods like carrots.  The rest of the day consisted of salad w/ egg white and chicken, more chicken and more carrots.  It’s not a lot of variety, but it works for me b/c it’s what I like and what I can eat a lot of w/o getting sick of it.

Day 10 is another good one…shoulders and arms.  Eat your heart out.

Day 8: Chest and Back

YAY! ONE WEEK DONE!!!

As for today, I felt good and was ready to tackle the new week of workouts.  When I was working out I was remembering how tough the first day was for me.  I had a ton more energy and was a lot stronger in doing this workout than I was last week that’s for sure! 

I did more pushups, and could do more pullups w/o the aid of the bucket for support.  Although the tail end of the workout was getting harder, I could definitely tell I was pushing harder on this day than I was 7 days ago!

For diet:

Bfast: Egg whites and turkey bacon

Snack: baby carrots

Lunch: Lean chicken breast grilled

Snack: Banana and some popcorn YUM!

Dinner:  Salad w/ egg whites and ham, grilled chicken w/ bbq sauce and some chile

Not too bad today.  I had all water and tried to stay away from the protien drink.  It adds a ton of calories that I might not be needing for the midsection!

 

Cheers!

Day 7: Rest

Wow what a great day!  No workout, just some good eating and then i’m done!  I couldn’t ask for it better than that.  Since there is no blog I guess this will be a short one.  I had some soup for lunch as well as some oatmeal for bfast.  Those were my big meals.  Other than those two, it was just some protiens here and there and nothing too major.  Hope you all enjoyed your weekends!

Day 6: Kenpo

HOOO!  HA!  HIYAAA!

This was the majority of what I did for kenpo.  It reminded me of the cardio kickboxing on steroids.  We were jumping and kicking and punching until the cows came home.  I worked up quite the sweat and loved it.  It was fast paced and continued to pick up intensity and difficulty as the workout progressed.  By far this was the most fun, but not the most challenging.  In terms of a workout, it focused on more cardio than resistance.  You used a lot of quick reps to build up your heart rate and shed off some calories.  It made me feel worthwhile since I did it super duper early too.  They recommend that you work out first thing in the morning so you are starting w/ your best foot forward and shedding off old calories instead of the ones you put on that day.  This workout was about 1 hour long and was a lot of fun.  I look forward to next Saturday!

Diet was a little off.  I figure that it’s ok seeing as how it was the weekend and also Valentines day.  O well one day will not hurt but I am def still sticking to it and still working hard!

Day 5: Legs

Hi all!  It’s been a while since my last post so i’m going to update day to day again through Monday.  Day 5 was legs and it was another tough workout.  This one again, used very little weight resistance and instead you were doing some dips, and lunges and all kinds of other crazy stuff.  Probably the worst was when we got to wall sits…that’s where you put your back against the wall and drop down to 90 degrees and act like you are sitting on a chair again the wall that isn’t there.  If that isn’t bad enough, it went to 1 legged wall sits where you have to raise up one leg….ridiculous.  My legs were like jelly after this. 

Thrown in on top of the legs was back, so you were doing a bunnch of pullups and flys w/ dumbbells.  Very hard when I think of it.  I really struggle w/ the gay pullups, but soon I will be able to do some…hopefully.

As for the diet, it went fairly well.  Since it’s later I can’t remember what I had, but I made efforts to not eat junk..and I did  

Cheers!