Busting my butt, Day 15 P90x

Today I had probably the best work out of 2010.  I didn’t leave one cleanly done rep behind.

Not one.

I have been stagnating, the last month.  Stuck in neutral

Doing my workouts, sure.  Eating pretty clean, (occasional bad food here or there but not once over my WW points). 

Today I decided no more half assing it.  I am going to so what I can accomplish if I believe I can do this.  If i believe that getting under 200 (and 190 and 180) is no different than going from 225 to 220, or 215 to 212.  I am going to trust in the plan of attack I have chosen (Weight Watchers for food, p90x for workouts) and give this every ounce of energy I got.

Don’t get me wrong, I long for the day that this takes no effort.  It’s just something I do.  Eat clean and move more.  But right now I have to fight for it.  Right now I have to make myself go to I think i can’t safely do another rep.  Eat clean but stay nourished.  The next 8 weeks will be the hardest I have worked this year.  It will be the best executed exercise and eating I have put together consecutively.  I will let whatever results come.  I can only control my effort.  Nothing more.

Tonights workout was chest and back with Ab Ripper X.  I am too tired to post up my results.  I hit some highs for the 6 weeks I have been doing P90x (started originally May 30th, restarted 15 days ago) .  It was a great workout. 

Now, bed.

Day 8 Chest, Back and Ab Ripper X

Another day down and a great workout in the heat tonight.  I had a good workout, and a good day of eating.  I have not been on the scale since Saturday morning and I don’t plan on getting on all week except when I have to weigh in for a work contest. 

Went for a walk this evening after my workout to the local drug store to get my refill for my blood pressure medicine with my wife.  I also walked home after work the 5km, so I have gotten lots of exercise today, and got in 31 points nutrition wise today.  I continue to come up short with my water intake, gotta work on that. 

Not much else to say tonight, I will be back tomorrow after my workout. 

p90x Day 1 workout

So here we go, on the reboot.

Here’s how i did :

• Standard Push Ups        28, 18
• Wide Front Pull Ups      20,18  (all listed pullups/chinups were done pulldown style with a resis. band)
• Military Push Ups          13, 18 (on the second set I dropped to my knees about halfway through)
• Reverse Grip Chin Ups  20,20
• Wide Fly Push Ups         17, 15 (second set was from knees)
• Closed Grip Overhand Pull Ups  20,20
• Decline Push Ups          15, 7
• Heavy Pants                   20, 14
• Diamond Push Ups         14, 8  (both these sets embarassingly done on my knees)
• Lawnmower                   20, 14  (with resist band)
• Dive Bomber Push Ups   8,5  (failing fast here)
• Back Flys                      10,10 

Good workout, didn’t meet most of the reps from last time, but I concentrated on clean strict form.

Happy with the workout.  

P90x Day 1- Chest and Back

So today, I started on the P90x Journey.  I have to say I am happy with the results of the first workout and I am confident with the decision to cut my Power 90 Mission short and “up the ante” as it were.  Day 1 on the P90x schedule is an intense workout, supersetting back and forth between chest and back.  It calls for Pullups, and lots of em, but unfortunately I am not strong enough yet to do pullups so I chose to do my sets modified with a resistance band.  I think fairly quickly I am going to attempt to switch to pullups (assisting with a chair under my feet) and see how it goes, but we’ll see. 

Here’s how i did :

• Standard Push Ups        29, 24
• Wide Front Pull Ups      20,20  (all listed pullups/chinups were done pulldown style with a resis. band)
• Military Push Ups          14, 18 (on the second set I dropped to my knees about halfway through)
• Reverse Grip Chin Ups  20,21
• Wide Fly Push Ups         19, 15
• Closed Grip Overhand Pull Ups  20,20
• Decline Push Ups          12, 7
• Heavy Pants                   18, 14
• Diamond Push Ups         14, 8  (both these sets embarassingly done on my knees)
• Lawnmower                   12, 12  (with resist band)
• Dive Bomber Push Ups   8,6  (failing fast here)
• Back Flys                      10,12 

These exercises were done circuit style one after another, and then repeated and done again!  I am happy with the initial pushup totals, I have increased quite a bit from getting only 19 on the original fit test I did about 60 days or so ago, but I also have a long ways to go as far as room for improvement.

Then after you do this, you jump onto Ab Ripper X.  This for me folks, was 17 min of hell.  I don’t have the dexterity to do some of the movements, and I don’t have the strength to do some others.  But I did every rep I could, and I will work until I am blowing my way through every single rep.  I can do way more of Ab Ripper 100 and 200 than I could when I started, and I expect this will progress as well, gulp, i hope! lol

Similar to what I posted about a week or two ago, as far as accountability go, once I decided last night to jump on P90x after I blogged about it here, I posted it on Facebook.  I have had many comments at work today, on facebook and otherwise about starting, with some showing of support and some “attaboys” etc.  There may be some snickering to behind my back and thats ok.  It accomplished what I wanted it to, got people noticing, and gave me one more measure of accountability.  Its little things like that that will get me through the hard workouts (and I expect many on this program) and keep me away from the junk and booze.

K, its ten thirty and I am POOOOOOOPED.  Headed to bed now so that I can get up and get Day 2, Plyometrics in before work.  Have a great night everyone