P90X Day 42 XStretch/Rest and a Run

Been pouring out so I rearranged all the furniture in the bonus room today. Now the exercise equipment can see the TV so treadmilling shouldn't be such a drag. No Sunday group run because of the rain and cold so I did a mile as per the schedule and called it good for today.

P90X Day 41 Kenpo

My glutes are hurtin'. Looks like I finally brought it enough on Legs and Back to make myself sore. Hopefully Kenpo will help loosen me up some.

Ah, that's a little better. Kenpo and a shower.

P90X Day 40 Legs&Back&Abripper

Today was the first time this round that I really, really, didn't want to work out. Still lazy from the turkeyfest yesterday I suppose. Knocked out abripperX and then got into the groove about a quarter of the way through Legs&back. 90% of success is just showing up, even when you don't want to.

P90X Day 39 Yoga and a Run

Knocked out some YogaX and did a mile and half on the treadmill. Now for the final cleanup on the house for guests and the hopefully controlled turkey eating frenzy.
Happy Thanksgiving!

P90X Day 38 Back and Biceps

Upped the weight today, good workout. Doing more pullups and even increasing the reps with the chair, think that helps for more reps next time. Did Yoga for Kids with son and daughter last night, son mixes up yoga and kenpo so the there were more punches and kicks than you'd usually get from a yoga workout. We had fun though.

P90X Day 37, Plyo and Run

Legs got a workout today. After plyo did my 15 minutes on the treadmill. Should sleep good tonight.

P90X Day 36 Chest/Shoulders/Tris

Decent workout, was running really late so had to cut it a little short. Did get AbripperX done. Tried out some more Yoga dvds.

P90X Day 35 First Neighborhood Run & XStretch

So I invited the entire neighborhood to join me at 7am this morning for a 1 mile run. It turned out to be a crisp 28 degrees and only one other person braved the time/temp to join me but the invite had the intended effect: I got out of bed and RAN.

Later, XStretch felt great. End of week 5!

P90X Day 34 KenpoX and housecleaning

Got up and knocked out KenpoX, worked up a decent sweat. I've read where some people criticize that workout for not being intense enough. I think that's silly. A workout is a workout, YOU bring the intensity. I no longer do the set numbers of punches or kicks for all the reps, instead do as many as I can as fast as I can with good form in the time allowed. Also with the kick combinations, not putting your foot on the floor between transitions is a lot harder. These sorts of tweaks can make the workout as mean as you want it.
So next we get to clean the house up for the Thanksgiving visitors. Yay.

Oh and AbripperX and Legs and Back yesterday, the whole day was nonstop and I didn't get to update. Sorry.

P90X Day 32 Yoga & Run

Yep, I am SORE today. Yoga definitely helps. Tried another Yoga dvd today, not particularly impressed. I'm really getting a kick at how varied and diverse 'yoga' is. There are lots of similarities with the moves themselves, but the pace and duration is all over the board between instructors/classes.
One thing I will say and mean this with all my heart. I wish I'd discovered yoga as a young man - the women in these classes are amazingly healthy and limber. If my wife ever decides to kick me to the curb, I'm signing up for nightly yoga classes. :)

P90X Day 31 Back&Biceps

Oy, another workout I'd forgotten about. This is probably my least favorite workout after yogax, I hate being humiliated by the corn cob pullups and crying like a little girl at the final strip set of bicep curls. It is definately a good workout though, my biceps hardly ever get sore, but I bet they will be tomorrow. Good stuff.

Almost forgot our buddy AbripperX but remembered a few minutes into the B&B warmup. Swapped over to it and knocked it out before continuing with the regular workout.

P90 Day 30 Plyo and a run

Holy Cow, day 30 already!? This round of P90X has flown so far. Did plyo at a pretty high intensity and then ran a mile in 10 minutes as part of the marathon training. First time on the tread mill in a LOOONG time, seemed harder than running outside. I'm glad I've got it though, was in the low 40s outside today and I have a hard enough time running as is.

P90X Day 29 Phase II Chest/Shoulders/Tris

OOOoooowww. Gonna feel that tomorrow. Week off from AbripperX and then a new workout. I'd forgotten about Chest/Shoulders/Tri, but it's good times and a good workout.

P90X Day 28 StretchX

Swapped out XStretch for another Yoga series, I'm enjoying yoga more and getting more out of it. Today's was 10 Minutes Yoga played 'on demand' from Netflix. May start using it a couple of times a day for yoga breaks. More on that later.

Got a sore throat and feeling a little run down today. I really, REALLY don't want to be sick right now.

P90X Day 27 Yoga

Swapped up yogaX for a different yoga workout. Different, more experimentation needed.

Had my first cup of coffee in over 4 weeks this afternoon. It was okay, wonder if I'm losing my acquired taste for it. Definitely don't crave it or anything.

P90X Day 26 Core Syn

Cranked up the intensity with Core Syn this morning, did the bonus and added weights. Good workout.

Day 25 XStretch

Got up this morning all resigned to do YogaX and discovered it was just XStretch day! Yay!
Not much to talk about, raining and work is busy. Frankly I'm ready for this week to be over and get back to the heavy routines.

P90X Day 24 Kenpo

KenpoX today. Good sweat, diet was all over the place today, subsisted on leftovers mostly, didn't track very well. Will do better tomorrow

P90X Day 23 Core Syn

Standard day, did Core Synergistics for the first time this round of P90X. Was a pretty good workout, later this week I'll pick up the intensity and add weights. Not much else to report.

P90X Day 22 Recovery week

YogaX this morning. I still feel like a tool doing it and it still kicks my butt, but I keep pressing play.

So I started P90X at 180.4 lbs, today I'm 174.2. Showing loads of progress. I'm very pleased with the week 3 results. If you can tolerate the "I'm a goofy goober" expression in the Day 0 picture then check out the slideshow here. BTW, I am in fact one of the few survivors of the doomed government project "Operation Asynchronous Nipples". So, you know, be nice to me.

In other news, I put together a 300 day running plan to kick off in Jan 09 to prepare for the local Marathon on Nov 1st 2009. I'm going to need new shoes.

Also, working on week 4 without coffee!

P90X Day 21 StretchX - End of week 3

Alarm went of at 4:15 but I was already laying awake as I'd been for two hours or so. Didn't get up and finally got back to sleep. Son got up at 6:45 so I got up and made him some breakfast and we hung out for a while. Getting ready to knockout stretchx and then take week3 pix. Hoping to just chill out today. We'll see.

P90X Day 20 KenpoX

Woke up and my glutes were sore from Legs&Back. Kenpo workout seems to make them feel better. Glad I got it in before wife left to volunteer at an Autism event. Rest of the day was a blur of daddy duty until dinner time. Went over to the neighbors to hang out and watch some football and pretty much blew up the diet. 3 beers, bbq chicken pizza, etc etc. Should have stuck to tea or diet dr pepper, beer really screws with my night's sleep.

P90X Day 19 Legs&Back

Another cruddy night, spent half of it trying to sleep on the sofa. My neck feels like I slept with my head tucked under my armpit. Probably feel better after the workout.

Almost screwed up, was about halfway through the Legs&Back warm when I realized I'd forgotten Abripper. So I stopped L&B and did it. My son is 5 and has recently been hanging out a lot with me when I exercise, today he hit the deck and did some abripper. He's got some pretty wild 'modified moves'. :)

Anyway, feeling good today. Got the workouts done and it looks like at the end of week 3 I'm going to be down about 6 pounds from where I started P90X. Will do another set of pix on Sunday. PROGRESS!

P90X Day 18 Yogax

Well, woke up sore and tired so stayed in bed for a few more hours. Got up and knocked out YogaX. Still suck at it though. Work kicked off early so I'm busy busy busy today.

Be nice to each other.

10pm
Just about time to go to bed, had a decent day! Wife fed me steak, baked potato, and green beans for dinner. Wonder what I did right? Anyhoo, still feeling pretty stuffed although I took it slow. Cut a bite, put in the mouth, put the fork down and chew thoroughly and ENJOY the food.

Will try for 6-6.5 hours tonight.

P90X Day 17 Shoulders&Arms

6:30am
Drank too much green tea watching the election last night, went to bed late and didn't sleep well so I'm running a little late this morning.

6:30pm
Been a busy day! Got AbripperX then Shoulders&Arms done before it all went hooey, but something has to be done about the Halloween candy. I don't think about, crave, or buy candy and chocolate - but when it's in the house I seem to lose my flippin' mind. I'm sure I'm underestimating my calorie intake by grazing on the 'fun sized' candy packages.

Guess it's better than beer.

Going to do 6 hours tonight, been a little lax on the sleep experiment.

P90X Day 16 Plyo/AbripperX

I am back in the saddle. Knocked out plyo and abripper from yesterday and I'm feeling pretty good. Went out and voted.

Breakfast: 2 bowls of cherrios w/ 1% milk

45.5 miles per gallon

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P90X Day 15 Chest&Back and Bleaaarrrrrrggggg

So I'm not feeling too good today. Got halfway through Chest & Back, putting off abripper until tomorrow.

P90X day 14 StretchX

4:15am
I'm up. My glutes and shoulders are pretty sore, looks like I 'brought it' for legs&back and kenpox. StretchX will help but I'm going to do that later. Maybe some advil for now. (first I've taken this round of P90X!)

P90X Day 13 KenpoX

10am
Family (and I) had a hard time shaking off the sugar coma and getting moving this morning. Biphasic sleep plan really took it in the shorts this week, perhaps I can get back on track tonight or Sunday. Both kids are congested and coughing but at least they're getting it up. Just makes it hard to get a peaceful block of sleep time.

Knocked out KenpoX first thing, cooling off from that now then shower and breakfast. Doesn't look like we'll be to busy today.

Later...
Well so much for the chilling out plan, stepped into Home Depot for air filters and came out with faucet, towel and toilet paper hangers, mirror and toilet seat for the downstairs bathroom. Should have known better to bring wife with me to the hardware store.

9pm
Bathroom turned out well. Also finished my hot sauce that's been fermenting for the last two weeks by running it through the blender and adding about 1/2 a cup of everclear. I think it's pretty tasty and took some over to Neighbor Ben who's also a pepperhead. He seemed to like it. It's HOT but has a good flavor to it. I also tried the everclear - think I'll just put the rest of THAT away in the cabinet. May need some paint thinner later.