P90x Round 2, Day 29 - Chest, Shoulders, Triceps

P90x Round 2, Day 29 - Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
Diet :
Breakfast: Raisin Bran
Lunch: Salad with Turkey, Cottage Cheese, Carrots
Snack: Granola Bar, Jello Pudding, Fruit Cup
Dinner: Healthy Vegetable and Chicken soup
Unplanned Snack: None

Summary:
Not the best workout today, but I did give it a decent effort I suppose. For some reason I seem to have lost some strength or at least some motivation over the last week. I definitely do not enjoy this workout as much as the other workouts in the first week.

Tomorrow is the weigh-in day for Day 30. I'm actually not going to be surprised to find out that I'm down a bit from last Friday. I just don't feel like I've done enough to take any backwards steps.

Plyo tomorrow. I have to run as well, so we'll see how that goes. Might cut Plyo short for running, maybe not. Running is the focus now but don't want to use that as an excuse.

P90x Day 79 - Cardio X, 2 mile run

The last 30 days has been a very strange roller coaster in regards to my workouts. There are weeks that I start out feeling like a million bucks and by Thursday I'm done with it all and having to start over on Monday. Other weeks I get the entire workout week finished and feel like a million bucks. It's strange how things go from good to back from week to week. But regardless this last 30 days has been a significant struggle in relation to the other 60 days.

Today I got a good workout in. The schedule says Plyometrics, but I did Cardio X instead. It's a little Yoga, a little Plyo, a little of this and a little of that. I actually like this workout. It's a good quick workout that hits a bit of everything and leaves you feeling pretty good.

Today was back to running. I did a 2 mile run in just under 20 minutes. First mile was way to fast and I finished it in about 9:10 the second mile was not as fast but I had to back it down to keep from giving into the "this sucks, give up" voice in my head.

My legs are still a bit sore from Saturday's race, but hopefully this will help them out. I need to continue to stretch my calves, because I've got some every so slight heel pain in my left foot that I need to make sure it doesn't turn into something else. Overall I'm still feeling pretty good though and I'm going to try to run 2 miles Wed and Thurs of this week and get in a 3-4 mile run on Saturday.

Back and biceps tomorrow. Should be a good workout hopefully.

P90x Day 64 - Chest, Shoulders, Triceps

Starting over. It look 60 days but I hit the wall. I didn't work out the last few days of last week and on top of that I didn't blog either. But I'm past that.

I've looked up some marathon training plans and I think I'm going to an additional day to my running plan. I'm going to do 1 mile T,W,Th with 2 miles on Saturday or Sunday. I'm going to try and slow it down some by only going up .5 miles every other week. That'll put me around where I need to be by the first of June hopefully. I'm hoping this will be slow enough to get me to where I need to get. I honestly can't get any slower if I need to be running 3-4 miles by the first of June. If this doesn't work out I'm going to have to rethink my marathon.

I've decided to overhaul my diet for a short-term sprint. I can't "live" on a diet where I eat the same thing every meal for weeks and weeks but I can lose alot of weight on that and I think that's the best think for me. I'm going to target somewhere around 2000 calories per day and stamp that meal out over and over again till the first of June. Hopefully if I can lose a chunk of weight before June it'll help my overall running effort. I've done a strict diet like this before and had good results, but 3 months in I crashed. I'm hoping to get about 2 months out of this diet before I ease off it somewhat in order to train for my marathon and get some more energy.

I'm not giving up on P90x either. Today wasn't the best workout but it got done. Tomorrow is suppossed to be Plometrics, but I think I'm going to sub it out for Cardio X. Because I'm going to be running tomorrow I just figured that the extra high impact exercise was something to replace as a precaution.

I took pictures for my 60 day. I haven't looked at them.

Less than 30 days remaining. I think I've turned the corner. Although I thought that last week. If we can make it this week with no missed workouts I think I'll be back on course.

P90x Day 59 - Shoulders, Triceps, Biceps

Feeling really good today. Got up again this morning and knocked out a great workout. I got up a tad later than I wanted to this morning and if that happens tomorrow I won't have enough time to get my Yoga X workout in because of the additional time sink.

I took my dog into the Vet this morning so I hope everything is ok with him. He's got a bump on his snout that's very tender to him that's been there for a couple of weeks. We've watched it and gave him benedryl thinking it might just be a ant bite or something, but it's still there. In light of the things that went on this month with John Stone's dog Turtle I'm going to go ahead and get him a clean bill of health.

Workout today was Shoulders and Arms. It's nice to get back to this workout as I've been "push/pull" for the last month. My arms are really tired today, and it's funny how you can do the same exercises, but based on what order you do them in or what you pair them with you can get entirely different results.

Anways, Yoga X tomorrow. I'm going to be disappointed in myself if I miss this workout.

P90x Day 43 - Chest, Triceps, Shoulders, Ab-Ripper

So far so good for this week. With the help of my lovely wife going "Are you going to get out of bed or not" this morning I was able to get up and get a workout in before work. I'm still so tired when I wake up regardless of how much I sleep, but I have to believe that's going to pass shortly. Yesterday was the last day of anti-biotics so I'm declaring myself officially cured. I've still got a bit of a random cough sometimes, but I think that's more clearing out the junk from last week than an actual illness.

Today's workout was Chest,Triceps, Shoulders or "Push day". I can't say that I'll miss this workout too much when I get back to "Push/Pull" but it's a real doozy of a workout. I'm still amazed at how much of a workout you can get in simply doing different types of pushups. It's amazing that the fitness industry has convinced us as a nation that in order to build muscle and get fit you have to have alot of fancy or expensive equipment. But the honest truth about that is that it simply isn't true. Using your own body weight you can get a better workout most people do in the gym. It's all about determination.

Not the best Ab-Ripper workout today. But I can feel it for what little I got done.

Diet this weekend was decent and got this morning started right nutritionally. I'm hoping to ride the wave of new energy for the last two weeks of this phase and hopefully put up some decent results.

Plyometrics tomorrow and running. My legs are still warm from Saturday's Kenpo workout so I'm sure tomorrow will be a great workout. Hopefully my lungs are catching up to the rest of my body as far as conditioning.

P90x Day 36 - Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps / Ab-Ripper X

I can't believe that 5 weeks are behind me already. It's funny because the first 2-3 weeks of this process were so difficult and I was often so worn out or so sore that I couldn't imagine feeling good. That "recovery week" really did alot to stretch everything out and since then my energy has been amazingly high.

I got in a great workout this morning. It's still funny to be at how just with push-ups I can get to the point where I can't even push myself off the ground and how little that still takes to accomplish. But I can say that it took more this week than last week to keep me down. Today's workout was one of the first where I felt "stronger". I made it through the first set of push-ups with perfect form and didn't struggle. I wasn't until the second exercise that I had to break form to finish the workout. My arms are still "wobbly" right now, so I'm sure the DOMS for this workout come Wednesday is going to be the suck.

I FINISHED AN AB-RIPPER X WORKOUT! Now I didn't get all the reps that they did on the screen, but I did my best and did some for everything. That's never happened. Usually I'm so tired that I start the Abs, and when my abs are screaming I just stop rather than put in the 6-8 reps I'm able to get per exercise. But today while they were doing their 25 reps, but gutted out my 6-8 and finished the whole thing. I was pretty stoked about that.

I was very tempted to weigh-in this weekend, but figured after last month's disappointing (to me it wasn't what I had hoped for) weigh-in I'm going to keep the same plan as before and just weigh at the end of phases. So only 3 weeks left to go.

Running again tomorrow. I think I might bump it up a bit to maybe 1.5 miles, but I might do another week of 1 mile runs. I didn't really feel like I was solidly back up to 1 mile being "easy" and with the illness still sticking around it might be good to give me another establishment week.