One Week Left!

I only have a recovery week left and I will have completed the P90X cycle.  I am excited to take the post workout test and plan to do that next Sunday.  

I weighed in at 154.6 this morning.  I weigh myself every day and had a new low of 153.6 on Wednesday but Thanksgiving involved a few too many carbs to stay there.  Stuffing out of the bird is just so good.  

I did some extra cardio X workouts this week.  This video will be in my post P90X life.  It involves a little bit of everything and is a super calorie burn.  I want to make a plan and post the plan so you readers can keep me accountable.  Right now I am thinking three days a week hour workouts, three days a week ab ripper X (16 minutes)  I am not sure how it will eventually look but if I can keep putting in videos six days a week, I won't get out of the habit of working out.  152 lbs by the new year is my new goal.  If I can settle in weight wise in the lower 150s, I will feel pretty good.  The wii said I should be 145 but it also said I was 27 years old the last time I was on it.  

Next week's post.  Post test results and pictures!

muscle mass vs. fat

I have leveled off with my weight loss.  I know I could consume less calories but sometimes you just need an oatmeal raison cookie or two.  I also feel that as I continue to gain muscle mass it makes up for the fat that I have burned off.  I am starting to notice more definition in my arms and shoulders.

I made it through six workouts this week and have two weeks left.  I stand at 156.0 lbs. as of this morning.  This week will be an easy work week so I am going to try to throw in some extra cardio just for fun. I also plan on eating normally/excessively for Thanksgiving.

The hardest workout of the week was legs and back.  My hamstrings are still sore from Thursday morning's workout.  The stretch video helped this morning but they still tighten up after I am sitting down for awhile.  I felt very good doing chest and back last Sunday with much more endurance than two weeks earlier.

I haven't decided what to do yet when I end the P90X series.  I have talked to others that have completed the series and they are trying to do two or three days a week just try to stay near the level they ended with.  It was nice to put the suit on that I purchased 9 years ago for my Brookville interview on Thursday.  I am starting to get excited about the fit test in two weeks.

Three more weeks

Three more weeks to go until the fit test.  Last week I purchased two pair of pants that are 2 inches in the waist smaller than what I have worn for the the last three years.  I also had a little bit of a scare on Wednesday with the neck.  I was pounding out wide front pullups and the left side of my neck grabbed pretty hard.  I did not finish the pull up section of the workout and did not do the workout the next day as I was very sore.  I am feeling better today and will begin week 11 this afternoon.

I ate terribly this week.  March of Dimes fundraiser was on Monday where I pigged out.  I bought a school lunch on Friday and I ate out yesterday afternoon at the County Seat.  Needless to say I gained a pound this week.  I now stand at 155.5 as of this morning.

Back to chest and back today with ab ripper x included(still not fun and I am still not good at it).  Football season is done so I hope to have more energy for the weekends.  I would like to start playing racquetball again soon.

Week 10

I had a good week of workouts and feel ready to take on Week 10.  I weighed in at 154.6 this morning, a new low.  My legs were very fatigued last night standing in the rain for three hours at Karns City.  Today week 10 begins so I go back to chest, shoulders and triceps video that destroys me.

I feel like my appetite has finally decreased so I am not ravenous after eating smaller amounts of calories.  My goal of losing 10 pounds during the 90 day training is only 2.4 pounds away.  I am pretty confident I will get there in the next four weeks.

My big goal for the week is to do the ab ripper x video every day that I am supposed to.  I only completed it once last week out of the three times I was supposed to do it.  It is only 16 minutes, but it is extra in additional to the hour long videos that you complete.  Oh, by the way, I stink at it.  That is probably the reason I avoid it.