Day 12 - Legs and Back

Today was a pretty tough workout, more so than usual. My body just didnt seem to be into it but I pushed through and finished the dvd. I guess there will be days like this and the important thing is to keep going. Legs and Back consists of a lot of squats and pull ups and I was breathing and sweating more so than usual. I felt lazy and lethargic but i kept telling myself to keep on keepin on. I stuck to doing 15 reps per workout which was the same as last week which means that next week i'm gonna push it through to 20 reps. Hopefully my body will be up and 100 percent by the next Legs and Back session, but no matter what I'll still push 20 reps. Ab ripper seems to be getting a little easier so next week I'm pushing my reps to 18 reps. Maaaaybe 20 reps.

One more day (Kenpo) and then week 2 will be in the bag.

Day 11 - Yoga

Still a challenge for me this Yoga. There are some poses that I feel like I'm getting better at and then there are some that are just way too advanced. I do the best I can and thats what counts and I'm sure I'll eventually get really good at Yoga. I have noticed that some of the poses I have trouble with due to my spare tire that gets in the way but like I said I'm sure that'll remedy itself. My only real compliant is that Yoga is an hour and a half long compared to the others which are just under an hour but I'm sure Yoga will whip me into shape big time. Just doing it I can feel it working. Day 11 is in the books and I'm closing in on my goal.

Day 10 - Shoulders and Arms

Today's workout was shoulder presses, bicep and tricep curls. I've never really had a problem with this workout since i've kinda always had decent upper body strength. I kept up with the dvd but also made sure that I was geting an intense workout. My only problem I think is that my weight set only goes up to 20 lbs per dumbell so I need to invest in getting at least a set of four 5 lb weights which will add 10 lbs to each dumbell. I tried to shoot for 15 - 20 reps per workout. 15 reps more so than 20. The workout still gave me a really intense workout and my arms felt burned out so thats always a good thing but I do need more weights in the next couple weeks or else I'll be lifting things that will be too light for me. Ab ripper was intense as always but it felt a little easier this time around. I only did 15 reps per workout and I'll probably bump it up to 18 in week 3.

10 days down, 20 more before I hit the first marker. 30 DAYS INTO P90X!!!

Day 9 - Plyometrics

This son of a bitch of a workout still kicks my ass all over the floor. Plyometrics which is the jump training workout is tough tough tough. I attempted to up my intensity by doing a few more reps than I did last week but in the middle I was sucking wind and my legs were jello. I pushed on though and did the same amount that I did last week which was 20 seconds worth of each workout instead of the 30 the dvd does. I did hit one of my goals which was I promised myself that I would not push pause and indeed I didn't. I opted again to not do the bonus round at the end since I was already completely exhausted at that point. The bonus round is the last 8 minutes of the workout and it's not too bad but after going through the regular workout it's pretty daunting. I will try to do them next week which I think I'll be in much better shape after finishing week 2.

Week 2 Day 2 - COMPLETE

Day 8 - Chest and Back

Week 1 is history and now I'm day 1 into week 2 which is Chest and Back. I tried to do a little more than week one and i did but it was highly difficult. Week one I did about 10 reps per push up and 5 reps per pull up and I aimed to do 12 reps per push up and 8 reps per pull up this time around. In the beginning I did about 12 but slowly I weened down to doing 8 - 10 push ups and 5 pull ups. All around it was intense and i was really pushing myself. I want to be able to be doing 15 - 20 push ups and 10 - 12  pull ups maybe even more by the end of day 30. Ab ripper was intense as always. Last week I did 12 reps per workout and this week I'm aiming for doing 15 reps. Every week on Ab Ripper I'm going to keep going up on my reps.

All in all I'm very happy and motivated that i'm in week 2 and can't wait to be writing in this blog saying it's my thirteenth week.

Day 7 - Rest

Today was my rest day and it's thanksgiving so it worked out perfectly. I also didn't pig out and really watched my intake so I was proud of that. Tomorrow begins week 2. I'm well on my way BABY!!!

Day 6 - Kenpo

Week 1 is officially in the bag. This is the last workout of the week and then its rest day. After that day though week two starts it all over again. BRING IT ON!!! haha Today was Kenpo and it's the funnest of all the workouts. Time flies with this workout and you sweat your butt off as you punch, kick, knee, and block your way to fitness. I kept up perfectly with the dvd which I'm very proud to say, but again it kept me on my toes the whole way through . . . literally. The only time I kinda fell short was when they did X jacks which is something you do during the minute and a half or rest periods in between the workouts. My heart rate is pretty up there so I use the time to just do regular jumping jacks and also to lower my rate so that i can be ready for the next batch of workouts. Kenpo is a great way to end a week of P90X.

Time for rest now but I'm so happy to know that I got through the first week. Awesomeness

Day 5 - Legs and Back

This workout I think is the toughest of all the workouts next to Plyometrics. Legs and back consists primarily of squats, calf raises, and more squats and the dreaded wall sit and the even more evil single leg wall sit. This was tough for me and I was sweating the whole time. There were times when my legs felt like fire and during a set called the chair pose I yelled out just coz it hurt so bad haha. The workouts asks that you do 25 reps but I was only able to do about 10 -15 reps, which I think is fine since it's my first week. I do intend to raise the bar as I continue P90X. The other half of today's workout is back which is pull ups. I felt pretty strong doing these pull ups and although I didn't do anymore than what i did on day one I felt stronger today. I did 10 reps of each pull up workout but in the end i was only able to do 5 reps due to fatigue.

Ab ripper is still murder haha. I don't think it'll ever get easy but I at least did 15 reps of each workout instead of 10 or 12.

I'm not stopping until I'm ripped haha I want to say that at least once in my life I had a body like this.

Too ambitious you say? I say it depends on how much you want it, and believe me I want it. . . uhhhh not Daniel Craig. . . I want to be as fit as he is. AAAAAND this mother fucker is a decade older than me. If he can do it ten I'm gonna do it. :-)

Day 4 - Yoga

Just finished day 4 which is the Yoga workout. This is the longest of the workouts being an hour and a half long and it certainly hurts for that long as well. I had a lot of trouble with many of the hard balancing poses as well as the poses that require you to really be flexible. I'm not that flexible especially in the midsection. My biggest weakness I believe is my core which is the one thing I really hope to remedy after all's said and done. Near the end of the workout there's a series of poses called yoga belly seven which consists of really working on the abs and core. My abs are still sore from Ab ripper X and more than a few of the poses I epically failed in. Oh well it's only week one and I intend to be awesome at all these workouts in 86 days :-)

Overall yoga is intense. I have never unleashed so much sweat and barely really moved. I love some of the stretches and I do love the feeling of working out my muscles in a different way other than lifting weights. I'm focused and I intend to be fit as fit can be for the rest of my life. Let's keep going!!!

Day 3 - Shoulders and Arms

Day 3 is in the books. Today's workout was shoulders and arms, consisting of shoulder presses, bicep curls, and tricep curls. This workout is probably the easiest for me among the whole P90X workouts. I pretty much kept up with the people in the dvd but my dumbell set only goes to 20 lbs so i'm very limited in how heavy i can go, but i noticed that the people in the dvd range around doing only 20 - 30 lbs so I believe I did really well on this workout. Of course I'm not saying it was easy, far from it actually. The tough part is following their pace because they go from workout to workout with no break period in between, so it gives very little recovery period on your muscles. My average rep on each workout was between 10 to 15. After that workout is Ab Ripper X and much like on day 1 I was only able to do half of the reps ( 12 reps per ab workout ). My abs are still sore from day 1 so it was excruciating doing abs again haha. Overall I loved this workout, I just need to buy more weights soon for my dumbells.

Oh and I forgot to state my weight goal on day 1 so here it is. . .

Goal Weight - 200 lbs

Day 2 - Plyometrics

I just finished day 2 which is Plyometrics (a.k.a. jump training) and this is the most intense of all the workouts. It consists of squats and jumps and leg work and it nearly killed me. About a quarter of the way in my legs were already shaking and feeling like linguini. At a point my left thigh even quit on me and i fell haha which i saw as a sign of me pushing myself until my own body gave up on me. Each of the workouts are 30 seconds long but since its my first week and i was pretty much catching my wind the whole workout I pretty much stopped at 20 seconds. Not that I wanted to but my legs screamed in pain and burned like a thousand suns. At the end of the regular workout is a bonus round consisting of 3 more fast paced workouts. I opted to pass on the bnus round for now since it's just week one but my goal is to eventually do the full workout and keep in pace with the people on the dvd. Overall it was a great intense workout.

Day 1 - Chest and Back

Hello there, well I just finished day 1of the P90X workout. It was chest and back and it consisted of doing push ups and pull ups. The last workout is Ab ripper X which focuses on your core. I gotta say that it was pretty intense and at the end my body wouldn't let me do a lot due to how much my arms felt like noodles. I pretty much hovered doing 5-10 reps on the push ups and pull ups. In the beginning I was doing 20 reps of push ups and about 10 reps of pull ups with the help of a chair but as i grew tired I was only able to do about 5 to 8 reps of push ups and only 5 reps of pull ups with major difficulty. All in all though it's day 1 and I intend to get better as I continue down the weeks or training. In Ab ripper X you're supposed to do 20 to 25 reps of each exercise but I was too drained and only did 10 reps.

Here are my stats for day 1.

Weight - 235 lbs