Week 2

3/2/10 Day 9
Okay, so I am probably going to change the format a little and make my logs adapatable. I have not been able to write everyday like I did in week one. Even then it was a struggle to keep up with it. Today I am on Day 9 Cardio X. I love the Cardio X routine. It touchs on little bits of every exercise through out the program and gets your heart rate up. I just have to stop leaving my watch / heart rate monitor at work. I am not used to wearing a watch so when I take it off to do dishes I forget that I have it off.

I was definately able to do more of the exercises this week. The first week I struggled, trying to learn the right exercises and how they want them done. It was less of a struggle this week and I feel I got more accomplished.

I also weighed myself today. I know they say not to keep weighing yourself if your on a diet, and I really have to break myself of doing this. I am just excited to keep seeing results. I calibrated the scale with two 5lb weights on either side. I am officially at 200lb's. That was after eating breakfast, before any constitutionals. I can't wait for my pictures on day 30 to show the results of this.

3/3/10 Day 10
omg.... I hate the ab ripper, mostly because I dont have any. The ab ripper is really killer especially if you do not have the abs or back and hip muscles to keep up with it. Im just glad I did not have an audience when I was doing Crunchy Frog. They showed up just afterwards.

I also worked out arms and shoulders today. There was definately an improvement and I corrected my tracking from last week to today. I made the mistake and thinking the tracking sheet tracked both arms. Instead it was for total number of reps per exercise.

I definately made improvements from last weeks workouts to todays. I hope that the progress continues. I just have to keep applying myself and 'bringint it'.

3/5/10 Day 12
Day 12 complete... legs, back and ab ripper. And I still can't shake this cold. Its alot better then it was last week, I just still congested. Despite that I feel I am working out a little harder each time and the moves are getting easier. One thing, I'm weak. During the first week of doing the legs and back routine I could barely do a pull-up. This week I scaled down to 20lb resistance bands for the modified exercises. I am going to stick with the bands until I lose a little more weight and build a little more arm muscle.

I have also been taking protein shakes for meal replacement and after workout recovery. The first one I had was Twin Labs chocolate shake. This was VERY chalky tasting and hard to swallow. I ran out of that and picked up Syntha-6, Vanilla Ice-cream flavored. Its tastes good, even mixed with warm water. I turned the faucet the wrong way and I did not realize it. Boy was I surprised when I took a big gulp and it was warm ice cream. One thing about the warm water, It definately helps to disolve the powder. I may start making my drinks before my work outs and putting them in the fridge so they cool during my workout.

Bob suggested that I put my exercise notes into a seperate blog for more options. I'll have to look into what my options are. I know that alot of people that started p90x has started a blog of somesort. I do have some trepidations with starting things like that. Other websites / blogs that I have started never really got the traffic to justify keeping it or the expenses incurred with maintaining. Although on the other hand, I've never put 100% into getting traffic and keeping it. Theres alot to think about before starting that. If anyone has any ideas, opinions or other thoughts I would love to know them. If enough people would want this I'll look into this more.

Day 13 - Kenpo X

I think Kenpo X is my favorite of all the exercises. The Kenpo days come and go too fast. I love it! Also, I'm almost done with week 2. That means 17 more days and I get to take the first photos. I took a walk up my hill afterwards to see if I can see what burnt down last night in parksville. Im thinking I shouldn't have done cause my legs are killing me now. All I seen was som residual smoke.