Ok, so it's Tuesday morning... Just finished my workout and man is it easy to get off track after 11 days off!!! I made it a goal to do even or +1 to what I did last week to try and make some progress and for 90% of it I succeeded in doing so! The problem came around my 18th-ish set, I was just getting too pooped to continue on, so there were 4 sets left unfinished, and 2 that were 1-2 reps below my first round of sets.
Felt really good overall, and now it's time for some b-fast. I bought some mixings for a yogurt which I'm going to try. Unfortunately it contains some carbs, but so would cereal...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Day 11 - Day 22: Epic Failure
Ok... so it's been a total of 11 days since my last post, and also 11 days since a good P90X workout :-(
Why you may ask? A few things:
A) Starcraft 2 was released July 27th. As this is the sequel to one my favorite games of all time, many hours have been put into this, which resulted in less sleep at night.
B) Company move. I volunteered to help move my company to its new building over the previous weekend and I used that as an excuse to not work out. Poor excuse.
One good thing is that I've been pretty consistent with my diet over these 11 days, and I only faulted with some pizza after helping with my girlfriend's move, and we split a medium gelato the other night, but boy was it delicious!!
I've grown a bit more accustom to Tuna sandwiches loaded up with spicy mustard, and I've been enjoying baby carrots more and more, except for the fact it takes an hour to eat a bag of them and I feel like a bunny rabbit.
Now that this is all in the past (except SC2, but I'll try to regulate), it's time to start back up where I left off (day 11 of P90X program Chest+Back!)
Why you may ask? A few things:
A) Starcraft 2 was released July 27th. As this is the sequel to one my favorite games of all time, many hours have been put into this, which resulted in less sleep at night.
B) Company move. I volunteered to help move my company to its new building over the previous weekend and I used that as an excuse to not work out. Poor excuse.
One good thing is that I've been pretty consistent with my diet over these 11 days, and I only faulted with some pizza after helping with my girlfriend's move, and we split a medium gelato the other night, but boy was it delicious!!
I've grown a bit more accustom to Tuna sandwiches loaded up with spicy mustard, and I've been enjoying baby carrots more and more, except for the fact it takes an hour to eat a bag of them and I feel like a bunny rabbit.
Now that this is all in the past (except SC2, but I'll try to regulate), it's time to start back up where I left off (day 11 of P90X program Chest+Back!)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Day 10: Shoulders/Arms + AbRipper
Back on track with Shoulder/Arms. Again, I'm doing this workout with Bethany who brought her weights this time. This workout would be much harder if I had a bunch of dumbbells, but I'm stuck with the bands. I tried doubling up bands (Red + Yellow) for some easier ones which made it a bit harder because of resistance and awkwardness.
Bethany opted out of Ab-ripper, but I did fought through it. I definetly feel the results from doing Ab-ripper more consistently than I did the first round of P90X!
Feel some soreness in the back and chest from my more intense chest/back workout; feels great!
Day 10 weigh-in: 183.0 (hunka bunka), granted I ate and had 1.5 scoops of protein shake just prior.
Bethany opted out of Ab-ripper, but I did fought through it. I definetly feel the results from doing Ab-ripper more consistently than I did the first round of P90X!
Feel some soreness in the back and chest from my more intense chest/back workout; feels great!
Day 10 weigh-in: 183.0 (hunka bunka), granted I ate and had 1.5 scoops of protein shake just prior.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Day 9: Damnit I slacked.
Ok, I didn't do PlyoX this morning. For some reason, I felt super tired even though I got close to 9 hours of sleep. It must have been from workout out in the late afternoon that I'm not used to.
I'd like to draw your attention to the new background (if it wasn't drawn already). Thanks Carl for making me this Tony collage, speckled with Dreya! I'll have to rework some of the other layout so it's more viewable but it works for now.
Tomorrow will be Arms/Shoulders!
Day 9 weigh-in: 182.6 (stay down damnit, I'm not eatting bags of raw green beans and carrots for nothing).
I'd like to draw your attention to the new background (if it wasn't drawn already). Thanks Carl for making me this Tony collage, speckled with Dreya! I'll have to rework some of the other layout so it's more viewable but it works for now.
Tomorrow will be Arms/Shoulders!
Day 9 weigh-in: 182.6 (stay down damnit, I'm not eatting bags of raw green beans and carrots for nothing).
Day 8: Chest/Back
I'm getting off-track on posting here. Fricken weekends.
Monday morning I had a dentist appointment which went well, so I had to push off my workout until the afternoon. Suprisingly, I was actually really motivated to do the workout once we found out the SC2 servers were down until July 27th!
Boy did I sweat! It was an awesome workout. I set my goal to do 1-2 more than I had last week for the first round, then do as many as possible for the second round. Worked out generally well, but at the end I was pretty pooped and couldn't push out as many Diamond pushups or Dive bombers as I'd like. But it felt really good when I was done!
Monday morning I had a dentist appointment which went well, so I had to push off my workout until the afternoon. Suprisingly, I was actually really motivated to do the workout once we found out the SC2 servers were down until July 27th!
Boy did I sweat! It was an awesome workout. I set my goal to do 1-2 more than I had last week for the first round, then do as many as possible for the second round. Worked out generally well, but at the end I was pretty pooped and couldn't push out as many Diamond pushups or Dive bombers as I'd like. But it felt really good when I was done!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Day 7: KenpoX + Bonus Ab Ripper
Sunday morning I was really motivated to do a workout. I really like KenpoX, it gets me sweaty and it's not a total killer workout. I think I'll have to try Carl's suggestion and use small weights to make the workout a bit tougher.
Sunday night I traveled to my parents for a home cooked meal. It wasn't the healthiest. I had 2 hotdog rolls filled with italian sausage, cheese, peppers and onions. I had a scoop of pasta salad. For desert, I had some zucchini cake and 2 scoops of Sorbet. I had enough splurging for a week, back to reality now.
I'm posting this on Monday, day 8, after my dentist appointment. I wasn't able to do my workout this morning and I hope to bust it out when I get home!!
Sunday night I traveled to my parents for a home cooked meal. It wasn't the healthiest. I had 2 hotdog rolls filled with italian sausage, cheese, peppers and onions. I had a scoop of pasta salad. For desert, I had some zucchini cake and 2 scoops of Sorbet. I had enough splurging for a week, back to reality now.
I'm posting this on Monday, day 8, after my dentist appointment. I wasn't able to do my workout this morning and I hope to bust it out when I get home!!
Day 6: Nothing!
Ok, my first Saturday while doing the workout, and I slacked off because I was up later than normal.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Day 5: Golf
Ok, Ok... I didn't do a workout this morning, because I had a tee time at 6:46. The planned workout is legs/back, but it MAY get pushed off til tomorrow if I don't get the energy to do it this afternoon.
My golf round was "ok"; Started off horrible, ended up my typical play. I lost my part of the match, as did my partner which means we dip even lower in the rankings! The one good thing that came out of it was a chip-in birdie on one of our leagues toughest par 3!
Day 5 weigh-in: 181.7
My golf round was "ok"; Started off horrible, ended up my typical play. I lost my part of the match, as did my partner which means we dip even lower in the rankings! The one good thing that came out of it was a chip-in birdie on one of our leagues toughest par 3!
Day 5 weigh-in: 181.7
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Day 4: Yoga (But really Core Synergistics)
Day 4!! Which is slated to be Yoga but I hate yoga... So here's the deal:
Yoga = ~90 minutes. Which is 30 minutes longer than all the other workouts. Because of this, I get bored towards the second half (the balancing postures). My plan was to edit the video file and weed out a bunch of the balance postures, and things like corpse pose and child pose but I hadn't gotten to it.
That being said, and since I was at Bethany's, we did Core Synergistic in place of Yoga. Core S. is a good workout I must say. I had trouble with the lunges because I didn't have proper sneakers, and on Bethany's rug my foot wobbled a bit making harder to stay balanced. Boat and Banana were easier than I remember, probably because of Ab-ripper work.
We were sweaty as balls, and I only skipped the Dreya Rolls because I hate Dreya.
Tomorrow is golf in the AM so if I'm being bold and spicy, I'll attempt to do legs/back in the afternoon, but if not, friday will be my off day for the week.
Day 4 weigh-in: 183.0 lb
Yoga = ~90 minutes. Which is 30 minutes longer than all the other workouts. Because of this, I get bored towards the second half (the balancing postures). My plan was to edit the video file and weed out a bunch of the balance postures, and things like corpse pose and child pose but I hadn't gotten to it.
That being said, and since I was at Bethany's, we did Core Synergistic in place of Yoga. Core S. is a good workout I must say. I had trouble with the lunges because I didn't have proper sneakers, and on Bethany's rug my foot wobbled a bit making harder to stay balanced. Boat and Banana were easier than I remember, probably because of Ab-ripper work.
We were sweaty as balls, and I only skipped the Dreya Rolls because I hate Dreya.
Tomorrow is golf in the AM so if I'm being bold and spicy, I'll attempt to do legs/back in the afternoon, but if not, friday will be my off day for the week.
Day 4 weigh-in: 183.0 lb
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 3: Arms/Shoulders + Bethany
Ok, Bethany wasn't "part" of the workout, ho ho... but she did today's workout with me at my place!
Typical Arms/Shoulders day, which tend to be the easiest, partly due to my bands being mostly too easy, and the "hardest" bands which are red, don't give me a real burn until 12+ which is higher than Tony's recommendation of 8-10 for size which I'd prefer. I have been better about recording my reps/weight from the worksheet that came with the program. Last time I used pieces of scrap paper each morning, then re-typed it in an Excel spreadsheet. Problem with this was I ended up with a stack of 15 little papers and forgot what days they were for or got to lazy to enter them into Excel.
Bethany was new to the bands, because she typically uses 2-10lb dumbells. She didn't like them as much, and I'd have to agree... dumbbells are far superior, but you pay for that superiority in both $$ and Pain to transport/store.
Good workout overall, did ab-ripper pretty well. Now my chest/hipflexors/arms will all be sore tomorrow. I walk kinda funny when my hipflexors are sore.
Typical Arms/Shoulders day, which tend to be the easiest, partly due to my bands being mostly too easy, and the "hardest" bands which are red, don't give me a real burn until 12+ which is higher than Tony's recommendation of 8-10 for size which I'd prefer. I have been better about recording my reps/weight from the worksheet that came with the program. Last time I used pieces of scrap paper each morning, then re-typed it in an Excel spreadsheet. Problem with this was I ended up with a stack of 15 little papers and forgot what days they were for or got to lazy to enter them into Excel.
Bethany was new to the bands, because she typically uses 2-10lb dumbells. She didn't like them as much, and I'd have to agree... dumbbells are far superior, but you pay for that superiority in both $$ and Pain to transport/store.
Good workout overall, did ab-ripper pretty well. Now my chest/hipflexors/arms will all be sore tomorrow. I walk kinda funny when my hipflexors are sore.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Day 1 + 2: Back into the swing of things!
Back to day one, sort of a deja-vu feeling to be honest. Having the same thoughts as before: "How bitching is this going to be? Can I make it 2 more months?" I tried to take Tony's pointer for Chest/Back and paced myself through the first 12 sets. I did 8-10 reps and a lot of times use a chair for pullup excercises (because my back muscles are still lacking) instead of the typical 12-14 I'd strive for before. I knew I had to do this so that I wasn't BURNED by the second round, especially after slacking off and being on a vacation where I stuffed my face with Ice cream sandwiches. I made it through the workout and it felt great. Finished up with some Ab-Ripper, still hate those damn Obliques, Heals to the Heaven, and Fifer Scissors only because they're reaally tough for me.
Day 2 was back to Plyometrics, and boy did it kick my ass. There were a few exercises where I got 20 seconds through and the last 10 seconds I did Pam's version (usually the easier one) so that was disappointing. I also skipped the Sports Bonus round, and the last 2-3 sets of exercises.... But I still think this first week is going to be a "getting back into" week, so I think I did a good job if I think of it that way, and I definitely burned a ton of calories still.
Tomorrow will be Arms/Shoulders!!
Day 1 Morning weigh-in: 183.7 lb
Day 2 Morning weigh-in: 183.0 lb
Day 2 was back to Plyometrics, and boy did it kick my ass. There were a few exercises where I got 20 seconds through and the last 10 seconds I did Pam's version (usually the easier one) so that was disappointing. I also skipped the Sports Bonus round, and the last 2-3 sets of exercises.... But I still think this first week is going to be a "getting back into" week, so I think I did a good job if I think of it that way, and I definitely burned a ton of calories still.
Tomorrow will be Arms/Shoulders!!
Day 1 Morning weigh-in: 183.7 lb
Day 2 Morning weigh-in: 183.0 lb
Monday, July 12, 2010
P90X Part Duex
I have decided to try and blog about my P90X adventures for two reasons: 1) Writing about my progress and thoughts about the program will keep me motivated for this second part. 2) Spread the wealth of information to others because I feel like this program really works.
I'll start off by explaining my history with the program. About 3.5-4 months ago, I must have seen a lot of P90X infomercials or something because for some reason it got stuck in my head, "I could be hardcore and try this, because I've been at a plateau for well over 6 months with my normal gym routine".
I mentioned the program to my friend Carl (who back when we were out of college actually motivated me to start hitting the gym in the first place). Being the person he is, he was up for a challenge, and helped motivate me even more to go ahead and do it.
I obtained the video's, as did he, and bought some gear (resistance bands, pushup bars, doorway pullup bar, protein powder, ~$100-120 all together) and started a 90 day journey.
I planned to Blog my first 90 days of the program, but I failed to do so, nor did I have any progress pictures, or measurements. I hope to at least has progress pictures for this shortened round (2 months instead of 3, but possibly 3).
I weighed about 210-215 lb when I started, and I had been plateaued at this weight for what seems like forever. I'm 6'4" and my initial goal was to get to 190lb by the end of the program.
After the first painful month, sticking to the diet and exercise as best as I could, except for maybe Saturdays, I was already near my goal and weighed in at about 192-193lbs. I was really excited to lose over 15 pounds, and be under 200 pounds for the first time since I can remember. People had been noticing the results, and I felt a lot more energetic. I think the energy came from the low carb, high protein diet they put you on in the first month; That, and waking up at 6:45 to start an exercise that lasts over an hour. My goals were updated and my new goal weight was 185.
The plowed into the second month, increasing my carb intake a smidge, and lowering my protein to hopefully give me more energy for the workouts to do more reps/weight. I'm not sure if this helped or not, but I tried to stick with it. By the end of the second month, I had reached my 185 goal. Total weight loss at that point was 20-25 lb!!!!
Now for the bad news... The third month was a total SLACK month for me. I stayed up late on a lot of nights, so I wasn't able to get myself up to do the workout, I did on average maybe 2-3 workouts a week instead of the 6 they have you do. However, I did stay pretty healthy on the diet, so all-in-all, I sort of stayed level through the 3rd month, my final weigh in after 90 days was 180-182 lb!!
I was really happy with the results of p90x. It sparked alot of interest in co-workers and friends. My girlfriend is still doing the program and really likes it, and she has gained a lot of lean muscle.
But I crave more. If I hadn't slacked the 3rd month, I would have gotten into even better shape. After a week vacation lounging around, I feel like it's a good time to start a second round with new goals!
Unfortunately I don't know my body fat % now, I'd put a guess at maybe 16-17%?? could be way off here, which I'd like to find out really soon, so my weight goal for the 2nd round is 175lb, or 10-12% body fat. I'd like to gain a little bit of size in some areas, so I'm not quite sure if 175 is realistic to offset any muscle gain, but that's what I'm setting for now.
Another goal would be to get through the same exercises a little bit easier, or try some of the advanced moves that I hadn't the first round. There were times in the first round where I just had a horrible day and didn't make it through the whole workout, it wasn't often and it was mostly in the 3rd month when my body kept getting used to being lazy but I want to make it strong through the workouts and increase my reps/weight by the end.
Today was my first day back, and I'll be posting about that a bit later! "I hate it, but I love it"
I'll start off by explaining my history with the program. About 3.5-4 months ago, I must have seen a lot of P90X infomercials or something because for some reason it got stuck in my head, "I could be hardcore and try this, because I've been at a plateau for well over 6 months with my normal gym routine".
I mentioned the program to my friend Carl (who back when we were out of college actually motivated me to start hitting the gym in the first place). Being the person he is, he was up for a challenge, and helped motivate me even more to go ahead and do it.
I obtained the video's, as did he, and bought some gear (resistance bands, pushup bars, doorway pullup bar, protein powder, ~$100-120 all together) and started a 90 day journey.
I planned to Blog my first 90 days of the program, but I failed to do so, nor did I have any progress pictures, or measurements. I hope to at least has progress pictures for this shortened round (2 months instead of 3, but possibly 3).
I weighed about 210-215 lb when I started, and I had been plateaued at this weight for what seems like forever. I'm 6'4" and my initial goal was to get to 190lb by the end of the program.
After the first painful month, sticking to the diet and exercise as best as I could, except for maybe Saturdays, I was already near my goal and weighed in at about 192-193lbs. I was really excited to lose over 15 pounds, and be under 200 pounds for the first time since I can remember. People had been noticing the results, and I felt a lot more energetic. I think the energy came from the low carb, high protein diet they put you on in the first month; That, and waking up at 6:45 to start an exercise that lasts over an hour. My goals were updated and my new goal weight was 185.
The plowed into the second month, increasing my carb intake a smidge, and lowering my protein to hopefully give me more energy for the workouts to do more reps/weight. I'm not sure if this helped or not, but I tried to stick with it. By the end of the second month, I had reached my 185 goal. Total weight loss at that point was 20-25 lb!!!!
Now for the bad news... The third month was a total SLACK month for me. I stayed up late on a lot of nights, so I wasn't able to get myself up to do the workout, I did on average maybe 2-3 workouts a week instead of the 6 they have you do. However, I did stay pretty healthy on the diet, so all-in-all, I sort of stayed level through the 3rd month, my final weigh in after 90 days was 180-182 lb!!
I was really happy with the results of p90x. It sparked alot of interest in co-workers and friends. My girlfriend is still doing the program and really likes it, and she has gained a lot of lean muscle.
But I crave more. If I hadn't slacked the 3rd month, I would have gotten into even better shape. After a week vacation lounging around, I feel like it's a good time to start a second round with new goals!
Unfortunately I don't know my body fat % now, I'd put a guess at maybe 16-17%?? could be way off here, which I'd like to find out really soon, so my weight goal for the 2nd round is 175lb, or 10-12% body fat. I'd like to gain a little bit of size in some areas, so I'm not quite sure if 175 is realistic to offset any muscle gain, but that's what I'm setting for now.
Another goal would be to get through the same exercises a little bit easier, or try some of the advanced moves that I hadn't the first round. There were times in the first round where I just had a horrible day and didn't make it through the whole workout, it wasn't often and it was mostly in the 3rd month when my body kept getting used to being lazy but I want to make it strong through the workouts and increase my reps/weight by the end.
Today was my first day back, and I'll be posting about that a bit later! "I hate it, but I love it"
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