P90X Day 37
P90X Day 37
Jen: First things first…..to Carl…..yes you can have coffee on this diet. Try to stick to non-fat, non-dairy creamer or just plain skim milk instead of half and half. And use something like sweet and low or splenda instead of sugar. I know how important coffee is to people, so by all means…..this was a very important thing to cover! Today was a slow day for me, thank God. I am STILL sore from Saturday doing legs and back. I pretty much spent the day doing some simple things around the house, took the dog for a walk, and did some computer work. Not a big exciting day. Cheated a little bit on the diet today and had leftover chili instead of a grilled chicken burrito. If you tasted my chili you would do the same YUM! For my AM snack I had a protein bar. When I first started eating these things I thought they tasted less than desirable, but now I actually enjoy them. I don’t know if it’s because my body is begging for all the vitamins and nutrients in them or what, but I do know that simple little snacks DO NOT satisfy me anymore. My PM snack was humus and carrot sticks. I buy the cracked chili humus (or something like that). I have never tried humus before starting this program and I must say I find it very good! My kids even like it! Dinner tonight was not off the nutrition guide but I feel it was just as nutritious. We had homemade chicken noodle soup (made with low sodium fat free chicken broth, mixed veggies, boneless skinless chicken breast, and whole wheat noodles), a side salad, and some whole wheat rolls. Very scrumptious, especially since the crap weather seems to be sticking around. Now on to tonight’s workout. I have to say I was not looking forward to this one. It was plyometrics, and I know I covered exactly how I felt about this one last week. It is by far the most horrible thing ever. I know I’m supposed to be telling you how wonderful everything is like some other workout enthusiasts, but I’m keeping it real. This sucks! I came close to throwing an all out temper tantrum complete with foot stomping. I simply did not want to do this tonight. But I pumped myself up and used my negative energy for my workout. Half way through I was at least smiling and making jokes. I still had to stop here and there. I still did modifications. But I did not stop as much as last week, and I don’t feel the huge urge to spew my chicken noodle all over. So I am proud of myself for not giving up. For this only being my second week I think I’m doing alright. They say after 2 weeks the soreness and all around crappy feeling goes away. I think I will be happy when that day gets here. Until then I will keep giving it my all and just remeber to push forward even if I do stommp my foot every now and then. See you all tomorrow!
Tom: I drink my coffie black since I have started P90X!!!!! no more creamer and sugar for me. My breakfast was a whole wheat bagel bread with peanut butter (natural) and a glass of milk. A.M snack was the P90X protein bar. My morning at work was better than yestardays, my snack really kicks it up a notch once it has settled. Gets me throught till lunch knowing that I ate something healthy and not cokkies or junk food. For lunch I had a turkey burger on whole wheat toast and 2 glasses of water. My afternoon was a few pre delivery inspections, also I had three used cars I brought in to look over so this afternoon was productive. alot better than monday thats for sure. Dinner tonight was homemade chicken noddle soup, my wifes makes it real tasty!!!! It was a great soup and dinner. I had with it a salad with fat free italian dressing and a roll with butter. My workout tonight was tough. Very brutal I guess I have not completely recovered from this weekend During the lunges and jumps my legs were buring up. I did pick it up after a few minutes though. Then I slowed down for the spin jumps they make me a little dizzeeee since on a few of them I’m jumping the full 360***** It takes alot out of you with the consistance of these excercises. Keeping your heart rate up is whats going to make you want to push for a lillte bit more eac time. My football leaps tonight was me covering the entire living room, my creak jumps to were nice and long jumps. I doubled up on the knee jumps again just jumping over and over again as fast as I could do them. I went through pretty much all my water out of my workout jug. Yea its a cool jug too, just enough for these intense workouts since I don’t hit the pause button. No time for that I do my best in the time allowed to me. I don’t have time to give up, I’m here for this 90 day workout. My health has improved, and my eating habits are very good now. I enjoy working out with my wife it’s real nice to have someone else there for some company and motivation. Thanks !!!!!!
P90X Day 36
P90X Day 36
Jen: Started off the morning with some oatmeal and raisins. Good breakfast, especially considering it was a cold morning. Just what I needed before going to sit outside at the bus stop with the kids. Once I got them off I had a lot of house work that needed to be done. The normal, sweeping, vacuuming, scrubbing bathrooms, etc. That took me until about lunch time. I made the Shrimp Promodo from the nutrition guide. This is a really good dish. Even if you aren’t into to dieting and such I can promise you that you would want to eat this….maybe even serve it to guests for dinner. REALLY GOOD! After that I showered and ran some errands before the kiddies came home. I made the family recipe chili for dinner tonight. Everyone loves chili night, especially my boys. Sorry guys, you’re not getting the recipe for that one. We shot our recap video for you guys after dinner. We have a lot of fun doing those things, so I am glad to see that you all watch and enjoy them. This week’s should be good. It’ll include things from the salmon run that should be quite hilarious. So now that all that was done and the children were tucked in it was TA-DA……..WORKOUT TIME! I am still sore from the last 2 days of working out, but thankfully that is only my lower half. Tonight’s workout was only on the upper body. Let me just say this……if you don’t like doing push ups……..this workout is not for you. I have an old gymnastics injury (tore up the rotator cuff) that DID NOT sit well with this workout. I made it about 45 mins through and then had to stop. My shoulder was screaming at me like something out of Hellrasier. But before I pooped out I managed to do a decent amount of reps. I did about 8-10 for each move. Most were done in the modified knee position. But hey, no need to cause further injury right? So I feel confident that after a while this will get better. I just need to know how far to push it. I joined back in for ab ripper. I tried to pay better attention to my form today and to push it a little further even when I wanted to give up. When I felt like I could do no more I waited a few seconds and then jumped back in with a couple more. I did a little different oblique move than the one in ab ripper. I can’t successfully complete the move yet because I think my obliques aren’t strong enough maybe. So I took one of the oblique moves we did from 10 Minute Trainer so that way I am still working the muscle. Needless to say I am friggin exhausted and sore as hell. Not only in my lower body now but my upper as well. I hear a shower and an ice pack calling my name. Good night everyone!
Tom: HEY how are you This morning I had some oatmeal, raisans, milk with protein powder. My A.M snack was a P90X Recovery drink. which as always hits the spot. Work today was crap try putting in 8 hours and only making about 4. So my day at work sucked to put it right out there. O well my lunch was a turkey sandwich with lettuce, spainach leaves and mustard. My P.M. snack was 6 whole wheat crackers with low fat cheese pieces to make mini sandwichs you all know what I’m talikng about. Dinner tonight was chilli with whole wheat noodles. Chest, shoulders, triceps, and Ab ripper X was very extreme for me. For the most part my arms feel very sore from tonight’s workout. I used the 10 lbs freeweights tonight for a few of my excercises the 25 lbs were a lilltle to much for me tonight. I did eight one handed pushups four form the left hand and four from the right. !!!! I did modify them though I did them on my knees but I did some tonight. Some of my pushups tonight were also done on my knees my arms couldn’t take the mass amounts of reps after reps. I feel my chest expanding during all these pushups in a good way I do breath a bunch during the pushup reps. You really need to do this if you want max reps. Otherwise you will run down and fall flat when the sloppy comes your done. Shake it out and wait for the next exercise. Ab ripper X is starting to get a tiny bit harder for me after these workouts. When I complete the first workout I keep the DVD rolling right into Ab ripper. I don’t like to waste time, plus your body is still in the zone. When I jump into this I’m exhausted but I keep breathing and know that I need to keep on Bringing it. Heels to the heavens i still have not yet mastered straighting my legs but I do feel the burn in my legs. Mason twist I have down I blow that excercise right out the door tonight, din’t put my feet down at all and did the extra!!! Night all…….
P90X Day 35
P90X Day 35
Hello all, this morning breakfast was 2 whole wheat waffles and a protein shake. My A.M snack was a P90X protein bar. For lunch I had a chicken salad with fat free italian dressing. My wife and I played World of warcraft for a few hours today, in that time my son and his friend from across the street played the Wii lego star wars. Its always nice to play video games and to relax and chill out. I also had the tent put up in the driveway today to air it out cause it was still wet when I packed it up before we left. During that time I had to run outside cause it started to ran here again luckly I got it inside berfore it had gotten wet again. Dinner tonight was the smoked salmon, rice, and squash. I had a glass of water and some wine that I got while I was up on my fishing trip. Tonights Yoga X I completed one hour of the program tonight my wrist was acting up during the chatorangus sorry if I spelled that wrong but hopefully i am close (O__O). All in all I was also very drained from this weekend. I used my yoga block on most of the streches. I did the best I could considering ever time I went down to push my self up to downward dog my wrist started to act up. I did alot of casting while I was out on the river so it should be ok. I just need till tomarrows workout to give it a rest. Yoga X once again gives you a very nice relaxed pace setting allowing the body and mind to be at center. You want to be a center while you are doing your forms so you can get the most out of it. Even during my crane I felt my wrist give out a bit some I choose tonight to just finsh up right after that. I completed all I could tonight and did my best!!! Thats what counts so I will see you all for week 6 !!! Bring- It.
P90X Day 34
P90X Day 34
Jen: Today I had to help my cousin move. So before I decided to go there I got up early and did Kenpo X. Next to plyometrics I think this is the other hardest workout. Constant movement, dripping sweat, and breathing heavy. It was definately A LOT of hard work. It was fun at the same time though. Not your normal type of workout. You’re doing punches, kicks, and blocks. I yell occasionally too. It is a great workout to pop in even if you are stressed out. I can see myself having a rough day and popping this into the DVD just because it is fun and a good way to release some stress. I think it is now my favorite out of all the other routines, which is strange to say since it totally kicked my butt! So after I damn near killed myself I deicded to head to the “Big Move”. Let me just say this was NOT easy! She has 3 kids under the age of 8 and a lot of stuff. Her husband was working and we all know where my husband is. So this was lovely. It was just her and I and 4 children hauling stuff back and forth between the new and old house. Once we grabbed everything we could from the old house we had to stay at the new house and wait for the utility guys to show up. While we were waiting for them we decided to paint one of the bedrooms. Let me just say…..no matter how many baby gates you put up or what precautions you take a 1 and 2 year old will always find a way to get at paint if they really want to. Once I had my fair share of that mess I headed home. I had gotten a call from Tommy and apparently the salmon run had been rained out (think it had anything to do with my voodoo?). That was a nice suprise, but I was in a foul mood. I had banged up my hand during the moving, I was tired as hell, and starting to feel sick on top of it all. BLAH! So we chilled for a bit and talked about the fishing trip. Afterwards I decided to join him for his workout of Legs and Back. Since I took Friday as my off day I skipped this routine. It was killer since we were both already extremely tired. I switched up to a heavier band this time around. I’m on orange now. I can really feel the difference. I make sure to hold it for a few seconds and the end of each move so I am really isolating those muscles. I have a problem with balancing on my left leg I notcied during some of the other moves. Something I’ll have to work on more I guess. My favorite move during this routine is the Groucho Walk. Anything that can bring humor into it is great. You have your legs wide apart and squatted. Then you walk 4 steps forward and back. Really hilarious! For Ab Ripper I wasn’t into it. By now I was most definately wiped out and tired of it all. I wonder if I am doing some of the moves right because I feel it more in my lower back than anywhere else (like the first 3 exercises). I can’t do the side oblique crunch to save my life. I don’t know why but I just can’t seem to coordinate myself enough to lift everything at once in one fluid motion. I am really confused on that one. So that is it for the day. I am off to the showers and LOTS of sleep. I have earned it!
Tom: Tom Legs and Back Ab ripper X Hello I am back for my fishing. Nice to be home and be back to my family. Legs and back for me today was a blast. I am using the Blue Bands now in my door for all my pullups. During my lunges I am also using 25 lbs bar bells, these past weeks I am upping the weights and doing less reps. I am going to get ripped!!!! My legs fell great from doing these lunges and squats. I got airborn during the excersise when you squat down and back up to jump and get up off the ground I got up in the air to a small jump I try to give a little extra when I know I have it in me to give. Stepping up to the heavier bands and weights with p90x has really made my arms fell much stronger. Ab ripper was nice to since it was a few days since I have done Ab ripper due to my fishing trip. I took my breaks a few times to catch up with my breathing. Aloowing me to get a good form in and do them properly. Post back if you the followers see a difference please let me know and be honest let me know how I am doing and let me know If you guys and girls see me BRING IT. I would like to see if others see my results Thanks !!!!!
P90X Day 33
P90X Day 33
Jen: I used today as my off day.
Tom: Hi I was in the woods doing kempo X. I’m in Pulaski fishing for salmon. I am standing in rushing water from the stream thats real fast current, don’t slip or you are going down. Water in your waiders is not fun at all escpcially when your out there for hours at a time fishing for your truly THE KING SALMON!!!!!!!! This morning I caught 1 fish (a salmon) It was atleast over 20 lbs I’m sure. I had to drag the fish over 2 miles over hills, streams, stepps, rocks, corn fields, well needless to say it was a far drag. I was very a hugh drag that ferlt like a workout in its own. I also had a few drinks while I’m out here having a good time. I gave myself about 45 minutes to recover before I started my workout. I brought it to you al from my camp site while I was on my vaction. I did my best it was actually kind of cool to workout outside. It was a bit slippery cause of the drizzle from the rain but I did fall or anything. My friend even joined in with me to get a nice feel for what the workout can do for you. I enjoyed doing kempoX in the woods. As far as my form was sorry if my form was top notch but as I said I had been tipping back pretty much all morning. Cause when I fish I like to caught a nice buzz. It takes of the edge of knowing that your out there for hours standing in fast folloing water . Also when the line gets caught up on the bottom, and the line snaps or breaks off. Time to start over again and tye one on and cast out again. so its not like you are sitting down. Your up on your legs digging them in very hard so you don;t fall or loose your grip to the bottom of the rocks. So a force is applyed at all times. This again is also a workout of its own. When you see the next weekly recap video it will show all sorts of clips and scenens on how the workout went out side and all the fishing !!!!!!!! Thanks every1 I had a blast, I also did my kempo X!!!!!!!!
P90X Day 32
P90X Day 32
Jen: Just me today guys. My hubby has left to go on the yearly butt scratching, beer drinking, tent sleeping fishing trip. Who knows, they might even catch some fish while they’re there. It’s a good time for him to go and relax and reward himself and the end of the nice weather. The only problem……..the kids and I miss him like crazy. Our daughter cried when he left tonight. Absolutely heartbreaking. Believe it or not, this yearly excursion is the longest my husband and I are separated during the year (3 whole days). I know some of you may think that is nuts, but it is what we have come accustomed to after 6 years together. We are truly each others best friends. Alright, enough with the girly stuff (I know the guys that read this are probably ready to barf). So all that being said, I was on my own for Yoga X tonight. As I have mentioned before, I have done some of these routines with Tommy on a leisurely basis. This is one of the routines I sampled before I officially started. I really enjoy doing yoga. I am one of those junkies that loved it from the minute someone turned me on to it. But this yoga is a little different. I have never in my life done an hour and a half of yoga! I find a lot of the poses difficult. It is a true test of balance and flexibility. The ones I had particular trouble with were the twisting right angle poses, warrior 3, and some other twisty thing that I cannot recall. They all really but my legs on fire. I had to bend my legs every so often or scooch in a little because it hurt too much. After the workout was over my legs felt like jell-o. It was a lot harder to find the motivation to finish the workout without my buddy there doing it with me. So for those of you considering teaming up with someone, I suggest you do it. It makes it so much easier to have someone there cheering you on or to make you laugh when you just want to scream “OOOOWWWWWWW”. So that I look like some drunk flamingo when I walk…..I am going to go shower and call it a night. I know you may think it’s only stretching, but trust me it is so much more than that. Stretching doesn’t make you sweat as much as this! So, grab a partner and get going with the P90X workout program!
P90X Day 31
P90X Day 31
Jen: Thanks to all who left comments on yesterday’s review. The encouragement really means a lot. After yesterday I wasn’t too sure I could do this. But I did survive, much to my own belief. I cannot tell you how great it made me feel to read all of those comments. I am so happy to hear that other couples are doing it together as well. I think working out is truly something better accomplished when you do it with someone else. At least I know I need someone yelling at me to get those extra 2 or 3 out! Needless to say I was sore as hell when I work up this morning. At one point last night I seriously thought I was gonna puke from allthat jumping around (result of drinking too much water during the workout). I was fine though. You wouldn’t believe how quickly I fell asleep after that nice hot shower! I can’t say I did much today. I basically didn’t feel like moving unless necessary. But come 8 o clock it was time to push play again and see what I was made of. Today’s workout wasa much welcomed change after yesterday. Not nearly as much jumping or high intensity moves. Basically it was an hour of alternating curls and pull ups. I love working my upper body! I always have, even back in the sports days of high school. I am still made fun of by my friends to this day for having manly shoulders and such. My upper body bulks up like crazy whenever I work it, what can I say? This being my first night doing this routine I spent a few secs at the begining of each move trying to determine exactly what it was they were doing and which weights I should use. I prefer using free weights during upper body training but the weights I have are kind of in between. Either they we too heavy for what we were doing or the other ones were too small. I have 5 lb and 10 lb weights, so I have decided I will go get some 8lb weights before I do this again. I definately think the weight issue made this workout a little too easy for me. The bands just seem to get in my way and make me feel akward. But to each her own. I was feeling pretty good when we reached the end, but then I rmemebered we still had ab ripper to do. UGH! I have never successfully made it through ab ripper x, even when just fooling around while Tom was doing his workouts. I was feeling the pressure to bring it. I am proud to say I actually finsihed the whole thing. I had a few sec breaks here and there. Tony recommends you do that though if this is your first few times. My stomach feels like it is on fire right now as I sit here typing this though. I really don’t understand how to do the oblique side crunches. I was completely confused on how to position my body for that one. I probably looked all sorts of akward on that one. I will have to have Tom show me or something, because I definately know I am doing it wrong. So I have made it through 2 days. Yay for me! Tomorrow is yoga. I am really looking forward to that. Tom took tomorrow off of work (he is leaving for the annual guy fishing trip tomorrow night). So we are going to get to spend the whole day together while the kids are in school. So we will get to do early morning yoga and then go have sme adult fun time without little children. Didn’t you always hate it when your parents did that to you? Ha ha ha, now I know why!
Tom: Hi my breakfast was a bowl of cereal this morning honey oats, glass of milk, and coffie. Snack A.M was a Recovery drink P.M snack was 1 1/2 cheese snack and low fat 94% butter free popcorn. This time it was not burnt, but not all of it popped :<( … For my lunch I had healthy choice chicken marsala, green beans, and noddles. Work was kind of slow today not much happening. The afternoon shift was pretty slow not to much to work on today for the most part. Today was my last day at work before I leave to go fishing don’t worry about me i’m still going to be doing the workout on my trip. Dinner tonight was chicken, mashed potatoes, and asperagus, and I had 2 glasses of milk. My workout tonight was intense I started using 25 lbs weights for most of my excercises maxing out at 8 -10 each. which is great. (My bands) I went for the blue bands for my pullups which is much more than my previous weeks. I have made the choice to start using more weight and do less reps maxing out at 8 -10!!!! My arms are very sore tonight towards the end of the workout I swtiched of to the orange band for the hammers also i used 10 lbs dumb bells cause my arms couldn’t take anymore than that. I made it almost all the way through but had to change up on my weights so I could complete the night. WHich is fine with me cause I am not going to give up, I will make the change do my best and continue to bring-it. The workout tonight left me soaked in sweet. Its a great workout and same as always its set up very nicely to keep you rolling through each individual excercise. Ab ripper X I found myself taking a few extra breath seconds to catch up with myself due to the fact the Biceps and Back was very intense. For me about 7-8 minutes into the AB Ripper X I feel my mid section has worked this is when I was stopping to take my breaks just to adjust to allow myself to get ready so when I jump back in I can bang out a few extra. Nite!!! see you all out there for the great Salmon run ……Tiny salmon chasing the impossible dream. My friends say I am bad luck when I go everyone stops catching fish LOL HAA HAA thats a bunch of crap…..
P90X Day 30
P90X Day 30
Jen: Hi everybody! I am Tom’s wife, Jen. Some of you probably saw me in the first video. I spent 4 weeks doing Tony’s 10 Minute Trainer and have decided to kick things up a notch. During that program I lost 3 lbs, 2 inches in my bust, 1 1/2 inches in my waist, and 1 inch on my hips. I also dropped a dress size. Now that I feel in better shape I thought I’d join the big boys. So today was my first official day starting P90X. I am doing the same as Tom, following the nutrition guide and such. Had a whole wheat bagel and orange for breakfast, protein bar for the AM snack, shrimp and broccoli for lunch, fruit for a PM snack, and some pasta for dinner. Let me tell you I needed all that food!!! I have done some of the routines with Tommy just tooling around. Never really went all out. Now I am tired as hell! My legs are screaming at me! Even the thought of a shower seems like too much work. We did Plyometrics today. 58 minutes of jumping and squatting and twisting and turning. I definately took a few extra 30 sec breaks. One word of advice…..don’t drink too much water during the breaks. Otherwise you end up jumping up and down and then have the sudden urge to pee! Was hard to breath for a bit there……only because Tom kept farting through most of the workout! I swear he lost a pound just in gas LOL! I made it through though. I will admit to slacking a bit towards the end. Wasn’t really giving it my all, but you gotta cut me some slack. It was my first day. So I am proud of myself to have achieved just one workout. Now let’s see if I can bring it for the rest of the week. After doing this, I’ve decided taking it one week at a time is going to be the only way. Definately intense, definately draining, definately worth it! Wish me luck!!!
Tom: HI!! Woke up late today did not get out of bed until 7:34. I need to be to work at 8:00 so I rushed, still had time to get my breakfast whole wheat bagel with peanut butter , a glass of milk and my coffie. I even had time to get my sons breakfast also we were the only ones up at that time. Work was good today nice and steady throughout. Snack for A.M was a P90X protein bar. Lunch was Low fat Dragonfire chicken with brocilli, wild rice, tomato, little tiny oranges. I had a diet coke to drink with my lunch, also I ate some pot stickers for my appertizer, I ate the lettuce and tomato pieces that were on the plate too. Afternoon snack was carrot sticks with hummas. Dinner was shrimp with whole wheat noddles and a salad with 2 spoons of ranch dressing. Before we started the workout my family and I played the WII. We played golf that was a fun time,its nice to be able to do fun things with your family! My wife read to the kids a new book about a mouse in a castle,its a new book so they are enjoying it. I do not read that much but it is nice just to sit and chill and listen to the book being told while you are having family time. The workout PLYOMETRICS I am still a tiny bit wea in the arms from last night. But lucky for me I do not have to lift weights for this. My jumping has improved over this workout, I can really feel myself doing a much nicer jumps than what I was doing a few weeks ago. My performance has improved as far as the run jumps, the jumping and landings. My legs do feel it from top to bottom. During the military march which I thing out of that whole entire workout is one of the easier ones. durning this I was having trouble just lifting my legs up in full postion I was keeping good form in my amrs and keeping a good stance posture. Durning the chair excercise were you bring your leg over the top of it from left to right. At first I was doing them over the back side of the chair the highest spot of the chair, thats way above my midsection. towards the end I hit the chair over,my form got a tiny bit sloppy so for the next round of it I did a regular.lifting my feet over the sitting part of the chair to keep a cleaner more suitable form the workout was also leaving me dizzy during all the jump and turns. I had a good workout tonight it is always a good time when you can jump back and forth in your living room. Creak jump dont fall in the water !!!!!!!! or though your floor (O__O) be well and have a great night,Im Blogged and now I will LOG……………….Bring it P90X
