P90x Round 2, Day 17 - Shoulders and Arms, 2 mile run

P90x Round 2, Day 17 - Shoulders and Arms, 2 mile run
Diet :
Breakfast: 2 pumpkin muffins, orange juice
Lunch: Turkey and Roast Beef Sandwich, Carrots
Snack: Granola Bar, Jello Cup, Mixed Fruit Cup
Dinner: 6" Subway Club, Baked Lays
Unplanned Snack:

Summary:
I didn't sleep very well last night and it reflected this morning when I woke up. I almost skipped my workout and had rationalized it to the point of acceptance before I realized that it was fruitless to try and avoid it and got out of bed. I got a good workout in spite of not originally wanting to do it and then got a good run in.

I only got in 2 miles this morning instead of the three I had planned, but I felt pretty good after 2 miles so I'm sure I could have gotten in 3.

I'm not sure what is up with my diet for this week, but we'll see how Friday's weigh-in goes. Last two weeks I put up great results but had pretty low energy. So far this week my energy has been really high and I'm wondering if that means my results will suffer.

I can't believe it's only Wednesday this week is going so slow. Yoga tomorrow. I'm sure that will be even slower.

P90P90x Round 2, Day 10 - Shoulders and Arms, 3 mile run

P90x Round 2, Day 10 - Shoulders and Arms, 3 mile run
Diet :
Breakfast: Bowl of Raisin Bran
Lunch: Salad with Turkey, Cottage Cheese, Carrots and Celery
Snack: Granola bar, Jello Pudding, Oranges Fruit Cup
Dinner: Irish Chicken Breast, Broccoli and Cauliflower
Unplanned Snack: Granola Bar

Summary:
Today went by very fast. Waking up this morning seemed like a bit of a chore but I ended up with a really great Shoulders and Arms workout. I absolutely regret not keeping a workout log during my first Round of P90x. I honestly can say that probably cost me some results I could have had in the first go round. Today during my workout I referred back to my previous numbers several times to see what reps I should try to improve on or what weight I used last time and based on my log inputs from today compared to last week I can tell I got a much better workout overall. I've only got up to 20's right now for dumbells and I'm going to have to very soon make the decision to either buy more weights, or invest in something like the bowflex dial-a-weight.

Running was very difficult this morning. I wanted to quit running at almost every point along the way but I kept going and finished my 3 miles in around 33 minutes. Not the fastest time I've posted, but I could definitely tell that my legs were still feeling the 3 mile run from the day before. I'm suppossed to run 3 tomorrow as well before taking Friday off from running but I'm not sure how that is going to work out. I keep telling myself during the runs to keep going because the urge to quit is only going to be stronger as I increase the mileage and so far that's keeping me going when I really want to give up. I mean if I can't do 3 what makes me think I can do 5 this weekend, or 10 two months from now. It's not the best logic, but it's helping me at the moment.

Meals went good today. I went out to hang out with some friends tonight. I was feeling a little hungry when I left the house and I knew that bar food was going to be too tempting to not grab some fries off somebody's plate or something. So I grabbed a Granola bar from the cabinet before I left and ended up having to eat it when I was there to avoid cheese fries and nachos that my table ordered. But I ended up leaving only eating that bar and drinking water so I'm pretty glad that happened. I weigh in again this Friday and after last week's super amazing results I'm hoping to put up another week of good numbers and the closer I get to Friday the more I want to resist cheating. I'm still getting really hungry about 2 hours after meals and sometimes even after I eat I'm not really "full". I know alot of this is because my calorie count is low but I'm hoping as I lose weight this will sort itself out. So far it's not dramatically affecting my workouts or my overall energy so until then I'm going to stay the course. I would be easy to increase my snacks to something more substantial if need be.

Overall things are going well. Yoga tommorrow. I'm sure that workout is going to drag on forever and then I still have to run. What a long morning I'm in for.

P90x Round 2, Day 3 - Shoulders and Arms, 3 mile run

P90x Round 2, Day 3 - Shoulder and Arms
Diet :
Breakfast: Sausage Sandwich, Apple Juice
Lunch: Salad with Ham, Cottage Cheese, Carrots and Celery
Snack: Granola Bar, Pineapple Fruit Cup, Jello Pudding Cup
Dinner: BBQ Chicken Breast, Broccoli and Rice
Unplanned Snack: Impulse eating of French Fries

Summary:
Got a great arm workout in today. I think I've figured out the trick to the weight workouts to keep me from skipping or shortening workouts. It's the logbook. I didn't keep the log of my workouts the first phase of P90x and I regretted it, so I made sure to get it set up this time. And so far it appears to be keeping me in line.

I can already feel it in my shoulders and upper arms and I'm sure tomorrow I'll be sluggish. Tomorrow is the worst day of the week... Yoga. P90x Yoga is the hardest most sadistic thing ever. I hate it so much and last round of P90x I skipped most of them. Can't do that this time around.

I missed Ab-Ripper today. I simply ran out of time in the morning with lifting and running and would have been late to work if I tried to shim in another 15 minutes. I'm disappointed, but I get 3 tries at it a week so hopefully I can make it up to myself.

Eating was pretty good today, but I can tell I'm burning off what I eat because I found myself eating french fries today while out playing cards and I didn't even want them. They were way to salty and not that good but I kept finding myself going back to them. I tried drinking alot of water to keep my mind off it and I'm actually still starving now which means I probably should have something to eat before going to bed, but I'm likely to just try to get to bed.

Running today went really well. Got 3 miles in which is the first time I've gotten that in the last few weeks. I'm still not sure this weekend's 4 miles is going to come very easy, but I'm going to give it my best. Right now my legs and body seem to be handling the running well, but if I'm going to try to run some distance I need to get my breathing and my mental game stronger. Those were the two areas I kept noticing today.

I haven't decided if Fri, Sat, or Sun is going to be weigh-in day. I usually try to get my weigh-in recorded before any cheat meals so the numbers look better so maybe that leads me to weigh in every Friday. But the "week" ends on Sunday so maybe that's better. We'll play it by ear.

P90x Day 17 - Shoulders and Arms

I enjoy shoulders and arms day. It's probably because of all the workout days it's the one that I can keep up with the most. I think that's why I like Kenpo too.

I went up in weight on some lifts from last week and still feel like I was able to get 100% out of my workout. The only things I didn't do well are the dips and the lying tricep extentions. I don't really like dips because for some reason they always hurt my shoulder. No matter how close I stay to the chair when I'm dipping it never goes well because I can't go very low without shoulder pain.

Ab-Ripper X was rough today. I didn't get that far in it as usual, but tried to give it my best. My abs get so sore during it that I can't do alot of them after about 1/3 of the exercises. But that's probably to be expected going from almost no core strength.

Diet is going well. I have to go out and eat tomorrow night with a friend to celebrate his 1 year anniversary of sobriety. I'm hoping I can eat well. I picked a place I believe will make that place possible.

YOGA TOMORROW! It'll be crazy fun I'm sure. Looking forward to pressing play on that.

P90x Day 10 - Shoulders and Arms

Wow, I almost didn't get today's blog in before my self imposed deadline. I'm only going to allow myself not to blog on days that I rest because I really have nothing to blog about then. An hour left in the day is just inside the deadline. Man that alarm is going to be early tomorrow morning.

Today was Shoulders and Arms. I felt like I got a much better workout today than last week. Last week I was so shredded from the Chest and Back day that I couldn't do much without pain. And after this disc last week I was in agony. But all those things are behind me now and while my arms are sore, it's the good "I got a great workout" soreness and not the "what have I done" from last week.

I will admit that I went up in weight on most exercises today, but over-reached on some workouts and had to humble myself back down to lower weights. But I really do like this disc. I'm looking forward to being able to do this workout with some heavy weights and really get those glamor muscles popping.

The only "injuries" I'm dealing with right now is that my lower back is really sore and the side where I blew out my disc a ways back is sore too. So I skipped Ab-Ripper today. I know that it's great for my core and that helps the back, but it's so tough to do right now that I just figured the added strain wouldn't help.

Diet has been pretty good so far. The only workouts I'm getting so far are the P90x discs. I'm not supplementing it with any additional cardio, so hopefully we'll see good results at the end of Phase 1. I'm eating alot more but still find myself hungry after a period of time which is good. I have to imagine that the furnace is burning more and I'm definately so far giving it a better chunk of fuel. I can't tell the difference yet visually, but I'm sure it's coming. I'm in such high spirits right now that I sorta doubt the mirror because I think my outlook is tinting my self-image. I know when I feel lousy I think I look lousy, so I imagine it's the same for good thoughts.

I'm looking forward to Yoga tomorrow morning. I'm going to try the 1 hour disc I have of YRG because I feel I can do that and still have it beat my butt for an hour. But I won't be standing on my head or twisting into painful positions. I think this will be a good workout. Once I can rock this, I'll bet I can just barely start to keep up with the Yoga-X dvd.

Looking forward to pressing play tomorrow. Even if it is going to seem way to early.

P90x Day 3 - Shoulders & Arms

I hurt.

I hurt everywhere.

I woke up this morning and felt like I had fallen down the stairs in my sleep. Every single muscle was sore and all I wanted to do was go back to sleep.

So what did I do? I got up. And I got busy.

Shoulders and Arms today wasn't that bad. I need to go up in weight on some of the exercises but I think for week one and breaking down the muscles to make room for new ones it was ok.

I can't tell if I did better on the Ab Ripper or not. I can do the first 4-5 exercises and then my abs hurt and I'm exhausted. I think if I can ever make it through the entire Ab Ripper it'll be a huge milestone. Right up there with my first set of 3 pull-ups. In that category of "stuff I never see myself being able to do".

I can't extend my elbows much past 90 degrees without being in agony. But it can only go up from here eventually.

My buddy Jeremie is starting P90x with me this round. He's "done" it before, and I only put it in quotes because he picked and chose what he wanted to do and substituted the cardio discs for running. So he did more like P60x or something. Anyways he decided to double up on the discs to catch up to where I am since he missed Monday. I haven't talked to him today, but from the looks of his facebook status I think he's thinking that was a less than ideal idea today.

The wife did P90x Yoga today instead of her normal Yoga. She said it was ridiculously challenging. So I've got that to look forward to.

Anyways, 3 down, 87 to go. Gonna press play again tomorrow.