Day 85 - Final Week

This is it!! The beginning of recovery week #3. When this week is over, I will have officially completed P90X!! CRAZINESS!!

Today was a Yoga-X day. The Yoga workout is both one of my favorite and most dreaded workouts. The only cause of the dread is that it's so stinkin' long!! ...well, that and the Yoga-Belly-7 section of the workout. It really is incredible, though. I fully believe nothing has helped my flexibility and overall strength more than this workout...just the vinyasas alone have helped my ability to do push-ups more than I can describe. It's really pretty cool stuff. ...But when you're 30 minutes into it and you realize that you've still got 15 more minutes of working poses, plus 45 minutes of balances poses after that, it's very dis-heartening.

Day 84 - Ultimate Frisbee + X-Stretch

Today was a great day! Stuck with the diet pretty darn well (except for 4 or 5 bites of chocolate ice cream again tonight, lol...I've gotta get that finished off and out of my fridge). In addition to doing the X-Stretch tonight, today at noon I played Ultimate Frisbee with people from work for an hour. It was awesome!

Tomorrow starts my last recovery week!!

Day 83 - Moments of Weakness

This has been the toughest week for me at following the diet. I don't know what it is, but I keep getting the most intense cravings for sweet things. My sweet tooth has been begging for cookies and ice cream this week! Although to my credit (I guess...) I've only caved twice...in 3 days. Okay, so that's not such a great track record. Although really when you look at my day, having a little bit of ice cream tonight won't hurt me too bad.

Today:
Breakfast - protein shake
Morning Snack - a protein/energy bar
Lunch - a salmon sandwich on whole wheat bread
Afternoon Snack - some pistachios & string cheese
Dinner - turkey breast fillets and broccoli
Workout - Ran 2 miles at 6 mph on the treadmill, then 30 minutes on the elliptical
Moment of Weakness - chocolate ice cream

Even with that moment of weakness, today was really a pretty good day.

Day 78 - Almost to the End

I can't believe how close I am to day 90!! The other day at work somebody was asking if I was on track to have my "perfect body" by day 90...I don't really think I am. I still don't quite have the abs I'm hoping to eventually get, and I definitely would like to bulk up my chest and shoulders a little more. But still, day 90 will be a great milestone to hit.

Today was my last Chest/Shoulders/Tricep workout before day 90...all I've got left as far as resistance workouts is Biceps, Legs, and Back...then of course the weird week of Core Synergics and stuff.

In this 3rd leg of the program I've been really good about doing the Ab-Ripper-X workouts...It's brutal, but good stuff.

Day 66 - Ugh...what happened to my blogging??

The bad news: I apparently completely forgot this blog existed or something.
The GREAT news: I've been sticking to the program this whole time!!

I'm feeling AMAZING!!! I've lost approximately 24 pounds since I started and I'm fastening my belt 3 holes further-in than I used to...It's really pretty awesome!!

This week I had my end-of-2nd-round pictures taken and when compared with my Day-1 pictures it's quite amazing.

The one result I've not yet gotten that I'm hoping for is at least a somewhat defined 6-pack. I don't demand abs of steel or anything, but I do hope for visible abs by day 90.

Day 31 - Back & Biceps Workout

First day doing Back & Biceps. It's been over a week since I'd done a pull-up and it was tough. I'm still having to rely on having my foot on a chair to do them...one of these days I'll be able to do workout routines without the chair.

This is a really fun, although really tough, workout. The back exercises are basically doing a pull-up variation followed by a bent-over dumbbell raise variation. Working biceps are always a fun workout, and this routine has tons of variations of bicep curls. You don't have to be too far into the routine before you start really feeling the burn and having a crazy-tough time doing exercises that you know wouldn't normally be too hard if you hadn't been pounding those muscles so much already.

Day 30 - Neighbor issues...

So today I was 5 minutes into my plyometrics workout and I get a call from apartment management asking me to - as a courtesy to my downstairs neighbors - keep it down with whatever I'm doing up here.

Now I know that my working-out isn't silent down there (inspite of the mats I bought to try to dampen the sound), but with most of my exercises there only 5-10 minutes of warming up where I'm doing things like jogging in place or jumping jacks that they'd hear down there. And when they called it was about noon...not really a time when I'd be disturbing people sleeping. Ugh...I just really annoyed me.

I'm going to try to do my plyometrics workouts somewhere else (probably at my parent's house) from now on, since it's the only workout I do that is constant jumping around. As far the rest, I don't know...Maybe do the warming up bare-footed would help? Or I could step outside into the stairwell for the warming up jogging in place & jumping jacks? I dunno...