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.