P90x Round 2, Day 25 - X Stretch, 3 mile run

P90x Round 2, Day 25 - X Stretch, 3 mile run
Diet :
Breakfast: Oatmeal, Juice
Lunch: Salad with Turkey, Cottage Cheese, Carrots and Celery
Snack: Granola Bar, Jello Pudding, Strawberry Jello w/ Fruit
Dinner: Pork Tenderloin, Mashed Potato, Green Beans
Unplanned Snack: None

Summary:
Today went exactly according to plan. Got up early and rocked out 3 miles on the run. Probably the best run to date and I finished 3 miles in just under 28 minutes which is really fast considering my normal time. I felt really really good and finished feeling great.

The workout this morning was Stretching. It's usually my Sunday exercise, but during the "recovery week" I do it on Thursdays. It was nice to stretch out after my run and I was sweating bullets during a good portion of the stretch.

Diet 100%.

Looking forward to weigh-in tomorrow.

P90x Round 2, day 21 - X Stretch

P90x Round 2, Day 21 - X Stretch
Diet :
Breakfast: Italian Scrambled Eggs, Juice
Lunch: Leftover Lasagna, Garlic Bread, 1/2 apple
Snack: Small Pineapple/Chocolate Sundae
Dinner: Louisiana Steak from O'Charleys, Baked Potato, Caesar Salad
Unplanned Snack: None

Summary:
Stretched out today instead of resting. Felt like I really needed is and generally felt much better afterward.

Diet was a bit higher than the rest of the week but it was cheat Day and it was mostly planned.

Short blog today because it's late. Can't believe the weekend is over already.

P90x Round 2, Day 14 - Rest

P90x Round 2, Day 14 - Rest
Diet :
Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Taco Bell (Volcano Burrito, Chicken Burrito) [Unplanned Cheat]
Snack: None
Dinner: Grilled Chicken Salad, Corn
Unplanned Snack: None

Summary:
Today was a little bumpy but I survived not that much worse for the wear. It started out fine with a good breakfast, but at lunch it went a little off the rails. The family went out to run some errands and we thought we might have had a little more time to get lunch but my daughter let us know that we were out of time. We looked around where we were and there weren't any sandwich places (those are our default emergency healthy eateries). It was pretty much between Dairy Queen and Taco Bell so we went with the Bell because we hadn't been there in a while. Now old me would eat ALOT of taco bell. And when I say alot I'm saying that it wasn't uncommon to order 6-8 items and finish them all. Well I ordered significantly less to eat this time around, and I could have ordered alot less. I ate one burrito and felt sorta full. I shouldn't have eaten the second burrito, but I wasn't bursting at the seams so I finished it. I tore off as much of the tortilla as possible because I always do that because I don't need the extra shell, but it still was an unplanned cheat meal.

I thought about stretching today but really didn't feel like I needed it and after running errands and knowing that I had some around the house stuff to do when my daughter woke up from her nap I opted for the rest part of rest/stretch. Hindsight I might have done things differently but I don't regret the decision.

I have Monday off from work for Memorial Day but I'm still going to get my workout done. Looking forward to another great week.

P90x Round 2, Day 7 - Stretch X

P90x Round 2, Day 7 - X Stretch
Diet :
Breakfast: Oatmeal, Pineapple Orange Juice
Lunch: 6" Turkey Subway sandwich w/ double meat, whole wheat goldfish crackers
Snack: None
Dinner: Beef Kabobs with Cherry Tomatoes, Onion, Green Pepper, Pineapple, Mushroom
Unplanned Snack: None

Summary:
I am stretched out. I used to skip this workout and instead opted to rest on the "rest or stretch" day, but I've decided in Round 2, like Yoga, I'm going to do the stretch every chance I can get. I really was good to get all the kinks worked out that I had gathered up during the week. My back is still a little sore but overall I think it's holding up quite nicely to the week's activity. I really thought my calves were going to be killing me today based on how sore they were last night but this morning I woke up and they weren't as bad as I had anticipated.

My eating this weekend was very good considering my usual weekends. I had my one planned cheat meal for Saturday and for the most part avoided all other deviations. We went and got Subway for lunch on Saturday and while I usually eat a footlong per meal I decided to stretch it out over two days instead which was a good choice. I usually struggle to keep it between the lines for the weekends so it was a nice surprise to get through the weekend with only planned deviations.

Week one is in the books and so far I'm feeling pretty good. I'm ready to make it through the next week and see what progress I can make on next Friday. I'm hoping that my running goes as planned this week because I really need to start making progress on that front if I have any chance of doing my marathon training in June. It's taking alot of mental stamina to get through my runs now and I'm hoping that goes away or I can find a way to mitigate that. Otherwise running for 4-5 hours is going to be like pulling teeth.

Overall, week 1 going great.

P90x Day 74 - Stretch X, 2 mile run

What a great fitness day.

I ended up not doing Yoga today. I know, harbor your surprise a little longer. Instead I did Stretch X after my run and I feel really good right now. Hopefully this will keep up and I'll continue to feel good for the future weeks.

Anyways, I got home and got in a really good 2 mile run. Got 2 miles in right at 20:00 which is right about my normal pace. I was a bit faster on the first mile than the second, but it averaged out.

I'm taking tomorrow off from running, but I'm supposed to do legs and back. That'll be in preparation for my 5k Saturday morning.

Anyways, so far so good. Almost 2 weeks left.

P90x Day 67 - Stretch X, 1 mile run

Starting to feel like the old me again, or at least the cobwebs are gone and I'm starting to get a bit of that energy spark back.

Today's workout was supposed to be Yoga, but I woke up and instead did Stretch X. I can't say for certain if that was the right move, but I still feel pretty good today. I actually got my stretching done in the morning and did my running at night, which puts me close to my desired schedule.

Got another run in tonight. 1 mile in 10:45 is off the pace I want to be at, but really not THAT much slower than where I want to be overall. Once I can get a steady base of running under my belt I'm pretty confident I can shave any time that I want off of my time and get me down to where I want to be. For now this pace is getting the miles I need under my belt and I'm still feeling pretty good.

Tomorrow is Back and Legs. Need to keep a mental focus on my lower back and make sure I don't do anything to set me back. No running tomorrow so it'll be nice to rest up.

P90x Day 52 - Stretch X

So today was the first day that I can recall that I deviated from the "plan". For some reason it's bothering me, but I know it was the better decision.

I swapped Kenpo which was supposed to be today's workout, with Stretch X which was tomorrow's workout. I really needed the stretching as my back is really bothering me and I didn't think Kenpo would be the best decision even though it's not really high impact.

Plus this will allow me to stack my cardio workout with my run tomorrow instead of putting my run with stretching that might lead to more injury if I stretch it all out and then go compact it with running.

I'm really waining on energy and motivation right now. I think I'm hitting that 2 month "wall" that people talk about when they do NYE resolutions. I need to find a way to refocus and recommit myself to this endevear.

Anyways, Kenpo tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be feeling better soon.

P90X Day 25 - Stretch X

So this morning has turned into a bit of a free-for-all based on my assuming that blogs were the gospel. I had read in a blog about P90x that the stretch dvd was only 30 minutes long. It's not. It's an hour like the rest of them. So anyways, because of this I hadn't done the stretch before, I figured it's only 30 minutes, I'll take the rest over the stretch. But today I wasn't given the "rest or stretch" option on the calendar, there was only stretch.

Well because I thought it was only 30 minutes I decided to go ahead and just wake up later than usual and get a few minutes of extra sleep. So instead of waking up at 5:45 i got up around 7 and put in the DVD. Imagine my surprise to see it was a full hour. So I did the whole DVD, got in my breakfast and just called in and told them I'd be a few minutes late to work. I've been so ahead of the game for the last month that it's not an issue it's just annoying.

So I'm not sure if I'll be skipping the stretch on the "stretch or rest" days, it all depends on how I feel. I got a good stretch today, but my lower back is still sore today from all the core work this week. Sometimes the extra rest isn't a bad thing.

I really really wanted to weigh in this morning. I went to bed pretty hungry and work up feeling lean. I know I have 3 more days until weigh-in but I really felt that today would be a good day to get it in. Hopefully I'll feel this way on Sunday.

It's getting hard to avoid all the dietary temptations this week. I've found myself surrounded by free food all week and I've almost avoided all of it. Yesterday somebody gave me some Arby's curly fries they didn't want and I said I'd have one or two. Usually that's enough to get the taste in my mouth and my brain will quit screaming for them. Well before I knew it I'd eaten a handful of them and had to put them down and walk away from them. I didn't even realize I was eating them all which doesn't surprise me. I don't think I ever really noticed the food I was shoveling in when I'm in my "unhealthy zone".

Anyways, feeling good today. Core Synergistics tomorrow. That's such a strange exercise routine. But it was fun last time so I'm looking forward to pressing play on it tomorrow.