New Challenges, New Program, starting stats and pics!

So, as I said in my last post, I decided to start P90x in the morning. I have been doing Power 90 and Power 90 Master series for the last 65 days and the goal was to get myself ready for P90x and I decided to go for it now. I joined the Tom Venuto Burn the Fat Challenge for the Summer and I figured what the hell, lets get out of my comfort zone and go for broke.

Here is where I am starting:

Starting Stats:

height 5’9
weight 208.9
bf% 28.3 (bf scales)
fat weight 59.1
lean weight 149.8

waist 43 inches
chest 45 inches
arms 14 1/8 and 14 3/8 (l and r)
legs 25 25
calves 15 6/8 16
neck 16 5/8

I am excited to make the jump and I am confident in my decision. For nutrition I will be staying with Weight Watchers, as I enjoy that method of eating. I may not be able to do every workout perfectly, but I will do it to the best to my ability. It starts in the morning.

Change of Plans, Burn the Fat Summer Challenge, P90x starts in the morning!

Well, plans have changed, things have come up, and I have decided to step things up a little early.

As things stand right now, I am about 65 days into a Power 90- Power 90 Master series and a small part of Insanity thrown in. I also did 40 days of Power 90 earlier this winter. Things have been going along nicely, and I am improving in the execution of the exercises. The biggest problem I had with Power 90 was the fact that day after day of doing the same 2 -4 workouts I was getting bored. By day 21 I was doing the 3-4 workouts, and by day 40 I was doing the Master series workouts. I almost said the heck with it numerous times and started P90x over the last 3 weeks, but then talked myself out of it. The object of doing the Power 90 workouts was ALWAYS to get myself ready for P90x. 60 days ago I took the fit test and past all of it but the pullups. I have been doing the modified pulldowns with the resistance bands for 6 weeks now.

After humming and hawing for over a week, whether to join the Burn the Fat Summer Challenge I took the plunge and joined this am on the last day you could enter. I am in a facebook weight loss challenge starting tomorrow run by Seth. So with these two things starting up I thought well, what the hell, lets give it my absolute best shot. I have been doing near p90x workouts for a few weeks anyway, with doubling up on some of the Power 90/MS/Insanity workouts anyway. Let’s go full barrel and get this done.

Am i biting off more than I can chew? I don’t think so. Is it going to be perfect? Nope. I may get sick. I may go camping. “Life” may get in the way. But I can promise you this, I will give P90x every ounce I got (safely of course) over the next 90 days. As Tony says “do your best and forget the rest”.