Power90 3-4 Strength (38 minutes)
Pretty good workout. I did not have the energy that I had for Friday's workout when I felt I could have jumped over tall buildings. I think my biggest challenge was the lack of sleep. I've really slept poorly the past few nights and I don't know how to correct that.
One disappointment I had was when you do wide push ups. I've been doing the 20 reps that they do typically without too much issue. I got 15 and then had to go to my knees (no, I'm not a prostitute). I got all 20 reps, just not in the form I wanted. The rest of the workout I was pretty strong in. That could be because I had to run upstairs a couple times (and pause my workout) to deal with Kiera. She didn't know it wasn't a school day so she thought 5:30 would be a good time to get up today. UGH. No, its not a good time. Then she finally came out of her room and wandered the house around 6 and that is when I wrangled her in so she wouldn't wake up the rest of the house and I could go back to the basement and finish my workout.
Pretty strong today on the lunges/squats. A little surprised by that. I know its not going to mean much when it comes time for Plyometrics on Tuesday (holy hell). Whatever. That's next week when I start P90X.
Tomorrow, treat my body to a great stretch (X Stretch) after I help my brother out with his garage. Then maybe take my girls to the playground or something. Should be a nice day outside. Until then.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
April 5 (Day 44)
Power90 3-4 Cardio (42 minutes) TH200 Abs (6 minutes)
RIDICULOUS. That's how that was. I can not recall a time when I had that much energy and intensity. Its been a while since everything came together like that for a workout. AWESOME. I can't possibly say enough good things about that. I didn't just push play this morning. I stepped up and obliterated that workout. No pausing. No unexpected stops. Nothing. No issues with breathing, although I clearly still have some heavy mucus in my body and some congestion. It was just full throttle from beginning to end. I had just as much energy at the end of my workout as I did in the beginning. How does that happen? It's like a had a shot of Red Bull or something. Geesh.
TH200 abs. It took me a little bit longer to do the 200 reps. Maybe an additional 20 - 30 seconds, but I got all 200. Bicycles which are the next to last exercise I crushed. Felt really good about that. Total body crunches? Egh. My form could have been better and I did have to stop and start a couple times during that to get to the whole 20 reps. Whatever. Its done.
Not sure what else I'm doing today but I've got to do something. I've got some energy baby. Don't waste it!
RIDICULOUS. That's how that was. I can not recall a time when I had that much energy and intensity. Its been a while since everything came together like that for a workout. AWESOME. I can't possibly say enough good things about that. I didn't just push play this morning. I stepped up and obliterated that workout. No pausing. No unexpected stops. Nothing. No issues with breathing, although I clearly still have some heavy mucus in my body and some congestion. It was just full throttle from beginning to end. I had just as much energy at the end of my workout as I did in the beginning. How does that happen? It's like a had a shot of Red Bull or something. Geesh.
TH200 abs. It took me a little bit longer to do the 200 reps. Maybe an additional 20 - 30 seconds, but I got all 200. Bicycles which are the next to last exercise I crushed. Felt really good about that. Total body crunches? Egh. My form could have been better and I did have to stop and start a couple times during that to get to the whole 20 reps. Whatever. Its done.
Not sure what else I'm doing today but I've got to do something. I've got some energy baby. Don't waste it!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
April 4 (Day 43)
Power90 3-4 Strength (38 minutes)
This was not an easy workout today. It took me probably 45 minutes to do this 38 minute workout. lol My cold and congestion impacted my breathing and I did have to take breaks after each of the 4 sections. So essentially I took an extra minute or so after every 9 minutes of workouts. Whatever. Shoot me.
I just completed the Shakeology Cleanse (Beachbody) and haven't really had anything that I would consider "REAL" food in a few days. I was really concerned about how that would translate in regards to my energy level to do this workout. Plus missing the past 3 days with this cold, I was concerned about overall strength to complete the workout. To my surprise my energy was not an issue at all. My strength was also not an issue at all. I was able to pump out as many reps as I would normally do on all the exercises without issue. In some cases I actually did better today. My core felt strong when I planked and when I did the push-ups. I try and keep it tight anyway, but it felt REALLY strong. I don't know why, it hadn't been worked at all for the past 3 days. Whatever. It was good.
Overall my body feels really lean right now. Still muscular but very lean. That's both good and bad. lol Good because I want to be lean again. Bad because damn it I want muscles! lol
Tomorrow is Cardio/Abs. Hoping another day of fluids helps push this cold further out of me and I can have a rocking workout.
PS - I didn't eat ANYTHING before the workout (normally it would be rice cake with PB) as I didn't want to mess with my final weight from the cleanse.
This was not an easy workout today. It took me probably 45 minutes to do this 38 minute workout. lol My cold and congestion impacted my breathing and I did have to take breaks after each of the 4 sections. So essentially I took an extra minute or so after every 9 minutes of workouts. Whatever. Shoot me.
I just completed the Shakeology Cleanse (Beachbody) and haven't really had anything that I would consider "REAL" food in a few days. I was really concerned about how that would translate in regards to my energy level to do this workout. Plus missing the past 3 days with this cold, I was concerned about overall strength to complete the workout. To my surprise my energy was not an issue at all. My strength was also not an issue at all. I was able to pump out as many reps as I would normally do on all the exercises without issue. In some cases I actually did better today. My core felt strong when I planked and when I did the push-ups. I try and keep it tight anyway, but it felt REALLY strong. I don't know why, it hadn't been worked at all for the past 3 days. Whatever. It was good.
Overall my body feels really lean right now. Still muscular but very lean. That's both good and bad. lol Good because I want to be lean again. Bad because damn it I want muscles! lol
Tomorrow is Cardio/Abs. Hoping another day of fluids helps push this cold further out of me and I can have a rocking workout.
PS - I didn't eat ANYTHING before the workout (normally it would be rice cake with PB) as I didn't want to mess with my final weight from the cleanse.
April 4 (Day 43) [Shakeology Cleanse] (Day 23 FINAL results)
I completed the cleanse. Down 7.6 lbs in total. Day 3 was not as hard as day 2. Day 2 was extremely difficult, possibly because I was home ALL day. And the fact that I was sick. Yesterday (day 3) was not difficult at all.
Just like the other days I had (3) shakes. My first shake had 1 cup of frozen strawberries in it. The other (2) shakes did not have any fruit in them at all. I did have 1 cup of grapes throughout the remainder of the day to fill the void. Last night we had huge salads with 4.5oz of chicken in them. The usual gallon plus of water.
Conclusion? It worked. I lost 7.6 lbs. That fucking scale doesn't lie. I started this at 198 lbs and today I was 190.4 lbs (AFTER my workout and shower). Was I hungry during it? DEFINITELY at times. Especially on day 2. My energy wasn't always there, but again - this could have been due to me battling a cold. Cold is doing much better by the way. This morning I had my first workout of the week and despite not a great sleep night I still had plenty of strength for the actual workout. Can't complain about that.
Would I do it again? I don't know. I just don't know. I'd be hard pressed to. I would have to be really struggling to get rid of those last few pounds to reach a goal weight or something. I'd rather just keep doing my best to eat healthy and getting up and push play rather than go through this again. I felt too deprived during the process. Only time will tell though if I go through this.
Just like the other days I had (3) shakes. My first shake had 1 cup of frozen strawberries in it. The other (2) shakes did not have any fruit in them at all. I did have 1 cup of grapes throughout the remainder of the day to fill the void. Last night we had huge salads with 4.5oz of chicken in them. The usual gallon plus of water.
Conclusion? It worked. I lost 7.6 lbs. That fucking scale doesn't lie. I started this at 198 lbs and today I was 190.4 lbs (AFTER my workout and shower). Was I hungry during it? DEFINITELY at times. Especially on day 2. My energy wasn't always there, but again - this could have been due to me battling a cold. Cold is doing much better by the way. This morning I had my first workout of the week and despite not a great sleep night I still had plenty of strength for the actual workout. Can't complain about that.
Would I do it again? I don't know. I just don't know. I'd be hard pressed to. I would have to be really struggling to get rid of those last few pounds to reach a goal weight or something. I'd rather just keep doing my best to eat healthy and getting up and push play rather than go through this again. I felt too deprived during the process. Only time will tell though if I go through this.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
April 3 (Day 42) [Shakeology Cleanse] (Day 2 results)
Still sick, no workout this morning. I feel better in some regards but still definitely sick. My head has some congestion. Gotta flush it out. I miss my exercising. I miss the feeling when a workout is done. The lungs pumping. Blood flow to all the muscles. I miss it all. Looking forward to getting back to it. Hopefully tomorrow. This is SO not how my week was supposed to go before P90X.
After 2 days of this damn cleanse I can say I'm down officially 6.4lbs I weighed myself this morning and I was 191.6lbs (starting weight was 198lbs). I honestly have no idea where the weight is coming off of. I do not feel thinner. I don't feel better about myself. Actually I feel like my pants aren't fitting quite as well as they were before this and my stomach looks fatter to me. The weight loss number, is just a number right now. Yes, I'm happy to once again be in the low 190's, but I would have gotten there eventually anyway. I would have done it without feeling like I'm starving myself and to me, that is the healthiest thing.
From what I can tell (besides helping lose some weight) all this process has done is make me want to absolutely pig out. Some people may say "wow, you lost X amount of weight and your still fat, so that just goes to show you that your food choices before weren't good. Stay on the lean side and you'll be good". Most other people would say "wow, you lost X amount of weight, that's great, definitely tough parting with all those things you love. Now its time to enjoy those things again". I'm definitely one of those latter people who is currently saying "time to enjoy those things again". What do I want most right now? A big FAT, juicy bacon burger with tomato all wrapped in lettuce. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I don't need fries. I don't need onion rings or anything else. Just the burger please. At least an 8oz burger.
This may be premature to ask this question and try to answer it, but here is the question: Would I do this again? Right now I will give this question a definitive NO. I would not do this again. Could I change my mind on that? YES. If this truly does jumpstart the weight loss process and get my body flushing the fat that I want gone, then yeah.... maybe I'd consider doing it again. MAYBE. Honestly though I don't eat poorly and nutrition wise I'm usually pretty good. So to give up so many things again, even if it is for just 3 days, to go through this. It would be a hard sell. A really hard sell. I'd need some time to pass so I could forget how difficult this process really was. Kind of like when you have a baby. It's hard, real hard. You get rewarded from it, but its still hard hard work. Then they get to the point where they are a bit more self sufficient, a toddler. You forget about how difficult the day to day was with the baby. Which is why you give in and have another one. lol
Until tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll post my final "cleanse" results. No matter what the results, this has been a learning experience. I've learned what shakes from Shakeology taste like. I've learned I prefer REAL food over liquid meal substitutions. I've also learned that a salad can be the most delicious thing in the whole wide world.... if you are hungry enough. lol
After 2 days of this damn cleanse I can say I'm down officially 6.4lbs I weighed myself this morning and I was 191.6lbs (starting weight was 198lbs). I honestly have no idea where the weight is coming off of. I do not feel thinner. I don't feel better about myself. Actually I feel like my pants aren't fitting quite as well as they were before this and my stomach looks fatter to me. The weight loss number, is just a number right now. Yes, I'm happy to once again be in the low 190's, but I would have gotten there eventually anyway. I would have done it without feeling like I'm starving myself and to me, that is the healthiest thing.
From what I can tell (besides helping lose some weight) all this process has done is make me want to absolutely pig out. Some people may say "wow, you lost X amount of weight and your still fat, so that just goes to show you that your food choices before weren't good. Stay on the lean side and you'll be good". Most other people would say "wow, you lost X amount of weight, that's great, definitely tough parting with all those things you love. Now its time to enjoy those things again". I'm definitely one of those latter people who is currently saying "time to enjoy those things again". What do I want most right now? A big FAT, juicy bacon burger with tomato all wrapped in lettuce. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I don't need fries. I don't need onion rings or anything else. Just the burger please. At least an 8oz burger.
This may be premature to ask this question and try to answer it, but here is the question: Would I do this again? Right now I will give this question a definitive NO. I would not do this again. Could I change my mind on that? YES. If this truly does jumpstart the weight loss process and get my body flushing the fat that I want gone, then yeah.... maybe I'd consider doing it again. MAYBE. Honestly though I don't eat poorly and nutrition wise I'm usually pretty good. So to give up so many things again, even if it is for just 3 days, to go through this. It would be a hard sell. A really hard sell. I'd need some time to pass so I could forget how difficult this process really was. Kind of like when you have a baby. It's hard, real hard. You get rewarded from it, but its still hard hard work. Then they get to the point where they are a bit more self sufficient, a toddler. You forget about how difficult the day to day was with the baby. Which is why you give in and have another one. lol
Until tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll post my final "cleanse" results. No matter what the results, this has been a learning experience. I've learned what shakes from Shakeology taste like. I've learned I prefer REAL food over liquid meal substitutions. I've also learned that a salad can be the most delicious thing in the whole wide world.... if you are hungry enough. lol
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
April 2 (Day 41) [Shakeology Cleanse]
No exercise. Sick. Not happy. Whatever.
Cleanse - I weighed myself this morning before I started with the fluids I'm supposed to do for this cleanse. I was down to 194 lbs. Down 4 lbs. Its great, but is it great? I'm happy to be down the weight that I thought I should have already been down, but at what cost? Is it truly a result of this cleanse? Or is it because I flushed out so much of the Chinese food I had Sunday night? I don't know. I just don't know. If I lose another 4 lbs tomorrow I guess we'll know the answer.
What this has done for me is make me want REAL food. I'm talking BURGERS. Yes a real, juicy, beefy, fat drenched burger. Oh, with BACON on it too. Ridiculous? Try and do this damn cleanse and let me know what you want. I want a damn burger.
Tomorrow is the FINAL day and Thursday morning I can go back to eating my (2) eggs with veggies. I'm hoping to be healthy enough to exercise tomorrow morning. I need more rest though. It might be another allergy pill before bed and just zonk. We shall see. Until then.
Cleanse - I weighed myself this morning before I started with the fluids I'm supposed to do for this cleanse. I was down to 194 lbs. Down 4 lbs. Its great, but is it great? I'm happy to be down the weight that I thought I should have already been down, but at what cost? Is it truly a result of this cleanse? Or is it because I flushed out so much of the Chinese food I had Sunday night? I don't know. I just don't know. If I lose another 4 lbs tomorrow I guess we'll know the answer.
What this has done for me is make me want REAL food. I'm talking BURGERS. Yes a real, juicy, beefy, fat drenched burger. Oh, with BACON on it too. Ridiculous? Try and do this damn cleanse and let me know what you want. I want a damn burger.
Tomorrow is the FINAL day and Thursday morning I can go back to eating my (2) eggs with veggies. I'm hoping to be healthy enough to exercise tomorrow morning. I need more rest though. It might be another allergy pill before bed and just zonk. We shall see. Until then.
Monday, April 1, 2013
April 1 (Day 40) [Shakeology Cleanse]
I worked out. April Fools! I didn't.
Started to feel crappy yesterday. Went downhill quick and woke up with a full blown cold. I got up at 4:30AM like I normally do to go kick some ass. I drank my green tea/water. I started my stretch but felt wobbly. I couldn't maintain my balance. My throat hurt. My nose just kept running. My eyes were watering. A mess. I got through the 4 or 5 minute stretch and then started on PowerYoga. I needed to stop a couple of times in the first minute because I needed tissues. At that point I just decided today was not a good idea. I admitted defeat for my morning and crawled back into bed.
Got up and started getting dressed around 6AM for work and then Christie reminded me that we were doing the 3 day Shakeology cleanse and we needed to weigh ourselves before we started. My weight was 198lbs. Higher than I had expected. I've pushed hard for almost 6 weeks now and I certainly expected a larger amount of weight gone than 2 lbs. I'm trying not to get caught up on the weight thing because honestly, my body is changing. I can see it and feel it. My clothes are fitting quite nicely. Those are all positives. All positives. The weight will come off, I know it will.
I'm hoping to be back on track tomorrow with workouts. My head is still a little foggy but I'm pumping the water into my system and just trying to flush everything out. In with the good out with the bad. We'll see where it gets me.
Started to feel crappy yesterday. Went downhill quick and woke up with a full blown cold. I got up at 4:30AM like I normally do to go kick some ass. I drank my green tea/water. I started my stretch but felt wobbly. I couldn't maintain my balance. My throat hurt. My nose just kept running. My eyes were watering. A mess. I got through the 4 or 5 minute stretch and then started on PowerYoga. I needed to stop a couple of times in the first minute because I needed tissues. At that point I just decided today was not a good idea. I admitted defeat for my morning and crawled back into bed.
Got up and started getting dressed around 6AM for work and then Christie reminded me that we were doing the 3 day Shakeology cleanse and we needed to weigh ourselves before we started. My weight was 198lbs. Higher than I had expected. I've pushed hard for almost 6 weeks now and I certainly expected a larger amount of weight gone than 2 lbs. I'm trying not to get caught up on the weight thing because honestly, my body is changing. I can see it and feel it. My clothes are fitting quite nicely. Those are all positives. All positives. The weight will come off, I know it will.
I'm hoping to be back on track tomorrow with workouts. My head is still a little foggy but I'm pumping the water into my system and just trying to flush everything out. In with the good out with the bad. We'll see where it gets me.
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