90 days ago my wife and I started on a new exercise program to try to change our health for the better. Today is my birthday and it’s a few days since I ended the 90 day P90X exercise program I started on in February. A lot of folks have emailed me to ask how it was going, find out more, or just to call me crazy for blogging about it. ‘What if you stop? Then everyone will know!” Exactly! … more
I’ve been running, playing soccer, and keeping in pretty good shape but I want to see some better results. I’ve plateaued in my workouts. So after a lot of research and asking friends who tried it, I decided to try the P90X program. I’m going to blog this mostly for myself as a record of how I am doing and to motivate myself.
Prior to Day 1 they ask you to take a fitness test. I … more
“Dad, you only have 84 days left!” says my oldest daughter today on the way to school. That big mountain ahead of me, I still feel good about our first 6 days on P90X. Truth be told, I’ll still be exercising after this … I was exercising about 8 hours a week before, just not to this extent of intensity and well roundedness. But I am not going to think about day 90 yet … more
Today I started week 3 of P90X (sounds better than saying I’ve only done 2 weeks). I find that the 7th day of the program is always a bit of a downer as I feel like I should be doing more. Day 7 is a bit of a rest day as its just stretching.
Today I was glad I rested yesterday because the snow made the roads so bad I could not drive. I had to pull over, park in a parking lot and walk the … more
Tables, wheels, bridges, downward dog, upward dog, and warrior poses … huh? You can tell I’ve never done yoga before, but thankfully Colleen had so she was able to explain some of it to me as we went. It was 90 minutes long and the first 45 had me sweating like crazy. Massively intense doing positions my body was crying out “are you kidding?”. But it really felt good. The … more
I feel pretty awesome.
Some of this great feeling has to be from the better eating too. I cut out junk food and cut down my crap snacks to one a day or zero per day. So far the worst thing I eat is a yogurt or a cereal. So not bad. I’m eating a lot of proteins now, which is a shift from my usual eating habits of lots of sugar and carbs. I love my carbs … pasta, steamed white rice, … more
Day 2 is in the books and it was pretty intense. It was about an hour of Plyometrics, which is a lot of squatting, jumping, moving your feet around, hopping, and doing flips. OK, well no flips, but it felt like it for some of the exercises. Day 1 was all weights and Day 2 is a lot of agility, flexibility, and cardio. It’s a good thing I am in pretty good shape cardio wise, because I … more
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