P90x Rebooted……

So, as the title of the post goes…..I have restarted P90x, with today being my new day 1.  This time with a difference.  I am going the rest of the summer booze free.  For those of you that know me, you just giggled.  Some of you swore and said “Riiiiiiiiight”.  Everyone that knows me knows I like my beer, and also have been known to knock back a drink or two of Rye.  I don’t drink very often anymore, once or twice a month at poker.  But this isn’t about booze, its about discipline.  And now its time to put myself to the test.

Why am I restarting? 

I am restarting because June was an absolute write off.  Mentally I was not in the game, sure I worked out, but workouts were mostly done half hearted.  I left too many reps undone, and often cut sets short when they got tough.  I cheated here and there on my nutrition, and basically struggled for the whole month.  I missed workouts, due to injury or indifference.   My results weren’t that bad for the amount of complaining on my blog and how I actually felt most of the month.  I want to give this an honest, leave no stone unturned, 100 percent effort challenge.  I want to see what I can do if I really commit 100 percent to transforming.  I want to be one of those motivating p90x Transformation videos out there on youtube.

I work 7:30 to 4 the rest of the month of July then I have two months of 11:30 til 8 pm.  During August and September, I will work out EVERYDAY before work.  Most workouts during July will be after work.  Nutrition will continue to be Weight Watchers as I enjoy that method of eating.  I will count points EVERYDAY, if it goes in my mouth it will be documented. 

Where I am starting :

Weight              207.3 lbs
bf percentage:   28.0 percent
fat weight          58.2 llbs
lean weight        149.1 lbs
neck                  16 6/8
chest                42.5 inches  -     45   (expanded)
waist                 42.5 inches  -   40.5 (sucked in)
arms                 13 7/8  left  -      14 right
thighs                25  left        -      24.5  right
calves             15 7/8 left    -      16   right

P90x goals

1.  By Oct 3rd 2010 I will weigh 179 lbs or less
2.  By Oct 3rd 2010 I will lose half my body fat percentage ending at no higher than 14 percent
3.  By Oct 3rd I will be able to perform 3 full range chinups  (currently 1/4 of 1 rep)
4.  By Oct 3rd I will have gone 3 months without drinking alcohol
5.  By Oct 3rd, I will have taken at least 1,000,000 steps

Good week so far

Having a good week this week as far as eating and exercise is concerned. I have exercised every day since Sunday and threw in some extra yesterday when I played tennis with a buddy of mine. Good forward moving week.

I continue to do the P90x program, but my days are all messed up. I continue on though, doing one workout after another. I have missed some days over the last month, but I am not giving up on the program, and I will soldier on. I will likely end up doing 120 days or more of p90x rather than 90. I have mixed in a couple power 90 master series and some insanity workouts as well, but I will be jumping back on to the p90x “by the book” training going forward.

Just realized I am going to miss my weight watchers meeting this coming Saturday as I have volunteered for some overtime for 6 hours on Saturday. I was looking forward to going, and I am still going to try and get my weigh in done at weight watchers before work if possible.

My wife has been gone with the kids camping for a week now and I gotta tell ya, Awfully quiet in the house. They come back tomorrow so I got a weeks worth of dishes and laundry to do tonight after my P90x workout after work. My wife told me she’s been jogging while she was away so she is keeping up with her own exercise regimen while she’s been gone, she’s lost 30 pounds on her own, and looks the best I have ever seen her!

All for now back to work for me.

Funk

Bah.  Another bunch of days has passed and I haven’t post.  No excuses.  Just nothing to say I guess.

I am right around where I have been stuck for 2 weeks on the scale, 206 in the morning, just under 208 tonight.

Exercise effort is not where it needs to be.  I need to get my shit together.

198 days til my birthday, loose plan for rest of year

I have been out of touch for a week and a half or so. No particular reason, I am still struggling along, doing P90x most days (I have missed two workouts) and trying to eat right. I continue to struggle with keeping proper mindset and fight the urge to fall back to old habits now that for the most part I feel much better. Work continues to be a little stressful, but that is what it is. For most of us, work is stressful, so thats not a valid excuse. Just need to keep working away at maintaining a proper mindset and keep exercising daily.

One of the many factors that got me to be the out of shape, unhealthy, not active person I was when I started this blog was too much computer time. I sit at a computer for my job, 9 hours a day. Over the years I have spent a lot of time playing online poker/online games/ reading and writing on various sites. It is not an exageration to say that I spent up to 15 hours a day in front of a computer at times. I do not watch a lot of tv, my vice has been computer/internet. So I have actively worked to cut down on computer time as well, which contributes to the little disapearing act over the past little bit here. This is not to say I am going to stop blogging, but just explaining, I am walking a tight rope with computer time.

I am trying to make some lifestyle changes, and make sure I stick with this latest chapter of moving more, less computer time, eating better etc sticks. I am considering March til yesterday, phase 1. Phase 2 started this am. I am sticking out p90x til its completion. I am enjoying it, and I plan to be a p90x grad. I have not thought too much about what comes next after that yet, other than I may switch away from Beachbody for a couple months to do something like Turbulence Training, or maybe I will go ahead and do Insanity. Not really 100 percent decided on that. My medium range goal is to be the best shape of my life by my birthday 12/31/2010. I don’t want to spend one more year as unhealthy as I started this one. I have 198 days til my birthday, and this years birthday will find me 50-60 lbs lighter (I am down 30 lbs now), with bodyfat percentage in a healthy 10-14 percent range, and with a waist measurement a healthy 34 or so inches . (Jan 1st this year I was 235lbs, 33 percent bodyfat, with a 48 + inch waist). I will have my bp under control and I will feel sooooo much better than I did last year. That is my goal.

I will be back to daily/5 days a week posts starting today. My next progress pic will be up Sat.

Tried Cardio X and thanks

Today I had the day off from work and I took advantage by going for a nice walk and having a great workout this afternoon.  It was a cardio day so I looked through my P90x dvd’s and decided to give Cardio X a try, a workout I hadn’t done before.  I made it through most of it, but did have to hit pause a couple times.  I followed that up with Ab Ripper 200 which I am improving on every time out of the gate.  What-a-ya know if you do things more than a few times you get better!  What a concept.

Just wanted to thank the readers of this blog both those that comment, and or just read.  I read through probably 50-75 fitness/weight loss blogs a day, but much of it does by Google Reader and therefore I don’t comment on others blogs as much as I should or want to.  Just wanted all of you to know I appreciate the support and I am reading your blogs as well!

Wise words

I have posted this video about 6 times on different versions of my blogs.  It speaks directly to me.

 

Great night with great friends….now, back to work (working at getting healthy that is!)

So yesterday afternoon and evening, and well into the morning hours I played cards with my friends.  I drank a case of beer over 13 hours, I talked trash with the boys, watched the Masters, played a crazy game of Sorry the board game, and won some money at the poker game.  It was a great great day with great friends, a day I needed as I have been having a bit of cabin fever, after being layed up with this migraine foolishness etc.  But today I am back to the business of working on my health!

I have already been out once for a nice (but short) walk this morning, and I will be out again later for another walk.  Today is my wife and I’s 13th anniversary, and I was thinking this morning that  will be the last one I spend overweight.  One of my big “reason why’s” of this whole getting back in shape and healthy is for my family.  It’s actually the biggest reason why.

So, being off this week, my plan is Power 90 every day, plus a tonne of walking.  I will be eating on plan every day without fail, and I will have a great fitness week.  Looking forward to it.  I am off to enjoy the day, have a good one.

This time it will be different

Tomorrow I am starting a new program and a new mission.  Over the years I have started many of fitness challenges, and have taken hundreds of befores.  Unfortunately I only have a few "Afters".  Take a look below or some of the pictures to see where I have been physique wise over the years.

 

Way way back!  20 years ago. 

 

 

About 175 lbs, after having been at all time high of 209 back in 96.

 

 

look at the belly, around 2004 I think

 

 

2007

 

My wife and I last fall, the untucked shirt, has been a staple of mine, sigh

 

yeeesh look at the gut

 

Couple weeks ago in Florida

 

This Summer, I will have pictures to show that I can be proud of!

This time it will be different

Tomorrow I am starting a new program and a new mission.  Over the years I have started many of fitness challenges, and have taken hundreds of befores.  Unfortunately I only have a few "Afters".  Take a look below or some of the pictures to see where I have been physique wise over the years.

 

Way way back!  20 years ago. 

 

 

About 175 lbs, after having been at all time high of 209 back in 96.

 

 

look at the belly, around 2004 I think

 

 

2007

 

My wife and I last fall, the untucked shirt, has been a staple of mine, sigh

 

yeeesh look at the gut

 

Couple weeks ago in Florida

 

This Summer, I will have pictures to show that I can be proud of!

Servers are down

Well the weekly patch for Warcraft is going on 13 hours our something like that right now. I wasn’t going to get much playing time in today after work anyway so its no biggie for me. I played a little xbox tonight instead. It’s funny to hear/read the people on the forums go absolutely nuclear when there’s an outage. Some people take WOW way to seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I play as much as I can, and like the game, but when the server’s down, it does not get me so worked up I threaten to quit, and/or want to maim people, lol.