Morning everyone,

Well, I forgot to do the Ab Ripper X last night, so I did it today.  I followed along has best I could, I set a goal to do at least five of all the different exercises that Tony uses in there.  Being that I’m not a very coordinated person physically, it was a tad on the difficult side, to accomplish it.  I had two really difficult parts during the Ab Ripper X, and maybe, someone can suggest a way to do it modified so that the muscles still get worked out but still be able to provide me with some balance. 

The Mason Twist, I believe it was called.  Where you lock your hands together, and then from the left side, to the right side knuckles to the floor.  It was hard to do, especially with the gut in the way.  So I kept on losing my balance, so what I did was use the P90X Yoga Blocks to elevate my feet, while I still twisted from one side to the other.  Is this still effective is what I wonder ?

The second part, was with reaching my legs up while keeping them straight or rather has straight as possible.  I attempted the leg climbs, and got through about four of them before I just couldn’t do anymore.  Today, I watched first, and then rewound to attempt it with them, and then tried to do my best.  I paused somewhat, but for the most part, I don’t find that I really need to break that often. 

The Plyo, this is by far one of the most challenging work outs for me.  I can get to where I lift my legs up, and put them over the chair but my coordination just isn’t there.  I plan to keep at it, and I think I’m going to keep up at things, like this morning, I found myself reaching up to do morning stretches just on getting out of bed.  Yet the really odd thing for me, was doing the Dive Bomber Push Ups, and that was a challenge yet, it stretched me out, I’m not exactly great at them but I try so that counts.

I digress, the Plyo, was hard, its a work out that, I can do some of it but the jumping under coordination is just a rather strenous task.  I have really good hand eye coordination, which I owe to Xbox but for the most part I guess I owe the gut that I have to Xbox as well.  I’m not laying down any blame since really I’m learning from reading Corey’s words that I’ve been making some lame ass excuses for myself.  That its time to man up, and take back control of my body, and myself.  It’ll take time, I know that, I’ll be sitting to watch a lot of the exercises, but, thats just until I learn them all.  When I committ them to memory then it’ll be a different story, and slowly but surely, I’ll start to incorporate them into a daily out of bed routine.

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble as well as we can.   Quote By Robert Cushing.

Today’s writing isn’t has followed through, and I’ll be honest, I’m sore, and to reflect on Corey’s words, much doesn’t need to be said.  You’re all doing the same work out, and going through with it, some of you are succeeding, and still some of you are attempting like I am so you are in my books a success.  I always tell Elisha that sometimes you will succeed and sometimes you just simply won’t but success is nice – God its really nice but, success only teaches a few lessons where a mistake teaches us a thousand lessons its up to each one of us to get up from the ground to start learning from that mistake.  Mind you, I’ll be here if any of you ever need a hand back up.

Also, is is possible that some people can share some more recipes of dieting idea foods.  I’m looking for some suggestions to help work at changing the diet.  So if anyone can give some pointers, and suggestions, even recipes – I’d really like to expand this community into that realm also.

I’ll start off, with the first tasty kind of treat that I like from time to time.

Low Fat Veggie Pizza, get any kind of vegetables that you like.  I like green peppers, mushrooms, and olives.  Just get some maranara sauce from your local grocer, some low fat skim milk shredded cheese, and some tortia shells.  Dice up your veggies, then put a frying pan on the stove, place the tortia shell in it, then add some maranara sauce, your veggies, and then some cheese.  Cover it up for a few minutes, and when the cheese looks melted – Bang you’re ready to eat.  Its healthy, its fast, and can also, make a good snack I find.  Best part, you can go over board, dice up more veggies put them in a resealable container, and then you can just make a fast snack anytime. 

Be Well, And Be Well To Others, And You’ll Be Great !

James