P90X Day 45
Tom: Hello everyone today my breakfast from the P90X nutrition plan was a glass of milk and a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter. My A.M snack was a P90X protein bar. For lunch I had a bowl of chicken noddle soup with a glass of water My P.M. snack was a almond cruchy granola bar. For dinner I had Chicken, sweet potato, and spinach, and a glass of milk. My day at work went O.K. There must be something with these PT Cruiser’s I had to do a head gasket today on a 2004 2.4 cylinder DOHC. They stink I just did one a few weeks back I remeber talkig about one then. I;m almost done with it, I just have to tighen up a few loose ends. I need to hook up the ehaust, and the side lower engine mount to the frame. Also I need to charge back up the air conditioning cause you have to disconnect the hoses to get to the upper motor monut. My workout tonight went great I used my 25lbs dumb bells for all my excercises except the last one today. All my pull ups, chin ups and reverse pullups were done with my blue band. My lawnmowers and my elbow out lawnmowers were all 10 times at 25lbs!!! My open am curls are improving also I try to keep my body still and use my arms only without jerking my body around to get the cleanist form possible. My curl up hammer down today was 12 times 25 lbs. I did very well with those. My max pullups towards the end was 21 total thats a good number for me as far as I am concerned cause by the end of this I can barly put up those 25lbs dumb bells. My arms get very spongee during tonights workout but I do feel improvements while pumping up these reps to excercise ratios. BRING IT people BRING IT!!!! Supermans were fun I try to get myself other than my stomach area right up off the ground and hold for as long as I can while I breath. This is an excellent workout timing wise it’s just what you need to get in a very nice workout and really feel it after you are done. Abripper X was draining tonight but I held up and finished. I skipped climbing my legs but did 60 masion twists to do a few extra for skipping me leg climb.
Jen: Hello everyone. Hope all of you are doing good and working hard. It makes me so happy to know that we have inspired/encouraged some of you to start your own programs or what have you. It is great to have someone know what you are going through and can offer support. I love hearing from those of you who are in the X commuity as well. Your day 30 pics are showing awesome improvements. Keep up the hard work! I swear I am hitting that half way point of “do I really have another 45 days inme?” But I know I do. I start work here in just a few short days. That’ll be the real challenge! But anyways, tonight was back, biceps, and ab ripper. I am making some great progress here. I am still using the orange bands for my back exercises and switching between 8 and 10 lb free weights for biceps work. As I said before, the bands kinda get cumbersome during the workout. I am doing between 10-12 reps and definately feeling the burn. I really enjoy doing this workout because it’s one of the few where I feel like I can kick ass. No lagging for me on this one. I rock it out! Now granted I’m not using 25lb weights like Tommy, but I’m still bringing it in my own right. My form is improving on ab ripper. Still struggle with the oblique crunches, but the rest are really coming together. I was doing the typical girl thing last night and scoping out my progress before I got in the shower. My inner thighs used to be really loose and flabby, now there is a good chunck of muscle where that flab used to reside. HA! I LOVE IT! So I will see you all tomorrow for yoga. I’m loving that too! Remeber guys, you can do it! <insert silly moving quote here>
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…..
