Nutrition is the Rub or Tony Horton is the Truth
So many months have passed since my last post, on either of the blogs that I should be posting to regularly. But as I find myself devoting more time to my fitness I thought it only fitting to post to the Thanxgiving Project. Particularly, since if I keep things going the way I have been I could be in pretty decent shape by the next Thanxgiving. At least I hope so.
See since October 28th I've more or less dedicated myself to my personal fitness. At least in the sense that that is when I started Power 90 again. Yeah the one from the infomercial. Mostly because I am tired of this gut and because a couple of years ago it seemed to work pretty well. And by pretty well I mean I saw a noticeable difference in my body composition. The problem is I was obviously lighter back then. Well obvious to me anyway. And as of October I was only about 10 lbs (give or take) from the heaviest I have ever been. So I started grindin'. And I'm glad I did.
Power 90 is only a 90 day workout. So at about month 2 I started thinking about what I would do when it was done. And since Tony Horton (the creator) had come out with P90X, the more intense version, I started looking into that. Did my research and found it on eBay. Brand new with the pull bar + resistance bands at a savings of about $80 compared to the beachbody website. So once my 90 days of Power 90 were up I started P90X. Sweet Jesus.
As of this blog I am on day 2 of week 9 of P90X and let me tell you I am still sore an achy in places defy conventional wisdom. See by the time I got to month 3 of Power 90 I was doing the workouts with with 3lbs on each wrist and 5lbs on each ankle. I doubt I could even survive any of the P90X workouts using such tactics. Yes, it is that much more difficult. Where as the Power 90 routines were about 30 to 40 minutes (they had level 1 and level 2 routines) the P90X routines are all about an hour. Longer if you include the 15 minute ab routine you do 3 times a week. And 90 minutes if you count the yoga routine. So yeah it's a lot more intense. And since you switch up the routines ever month it makes for some intense workouts. Much more than the origin Power 90 workout.
The problem is my nutrition ain't right. Quite frankly it's spotty at best. Which basically means I've only lost about 15 lbs after 5 months some intense, grueling workouts. Now make no mistake I am definitely noticing a difference in body composition. Maybe not as dramatic as my first Power 90 cycle from a couple of years ago but but the chest, shoulders and arms look better than they did some months ago. Hell if I could get the food part right I can definitely see where I could have those dramatic results you see on the infomercial. Seriously. I was washing my face this morning and notice my shoulders in the mirror. I thought I seriously need to get my nutrition together cause that is seriously keeping my gut from shrinking dramatically. And yes it has shrunk. Only about 2.5" or so but that's better than it was before and since I am actually getting stronger there is only so much complaining I can do. Considering I started this whole process struggling to do 10 pushups I think am doing pretty good. One of the routines involves no less than 6 different types. Another routines involves another set of push ups different from those. Some of this stuff I never would have even conceived of.
So for the foreseeable future I will be working out 6 days a week. If only to keep the belly shrinking. Yesterday I gave using the resistance bands for the alternate versions of the pullups. But after 2 months of using 2 bands at once I decided that I needed to at least make more of an effort to do it right. While I still can't do one complete pull up I can at least do half of one more than once and if use my tip toes I can do even more than that. And if you can believe it my back is now sore in completely new places. So it might be awhile be for I can do any meaningful corncobs. That's when you do one full pull up and while at the top you move yourself to the right, to the left, then push yourself back, pull yourself back to the bar and then lower your self down. That move counts as one. Yeah inconceivable...
See since October 28th I've more or less dedicated myself to my personal fitness. At least in the sense that that is when I started Power 90 again. Yeah the one from the infomercial. Mostly because I am tired of this gut and because a couple of years ago it seemed to work pretty well. And by pretty well I mean I saw a noticeable difference in my body composition. The problem is I was obviously lighter back then. Well obvious to me anyway. And as of October I was only about 10 lbs (give or take) from the heaviest I have ever been. So I started grindin'. And I'm glad I did.
Power 90 is only a 90 day workout. So at about month 2 I started thinking about what I would do when it was done. And since Tony Horton (the creator) had come out with P90X, the more intense version, I started looking into that. Did my research and found it on eBay. Brand new with the pull bar + resistance bands at a savings of about $80 compared to the beachbody website. So once my 90 days of Power 90 were up I started P90X. Sweet Jesus.
As of this blog I am on day 2 of week 9 of P90X and let me tell you I am still sore an achy in places defy conventional wisdom. See by the time I got to month 3 of Power 90 I was doing the workouts with with 3lbs on each wrist and 5lbs on each ankle. I doubt I could even survive any of the P90X workouts using such tactics. Yes, it is that much more difficult. Where as the Power 90 routines were about 30 to 40 minutes (they had level 1 and level 2 routines) the P90X routines are all about an hour. Longer if you include the 15 minute ab routine you do 3 times a week. And 90 minutes if you count the yoga routine. So yeah it's a lot more intense. And since you switch up the routines ever month it makes for some intense workouts. Much more than the origin Power 90 workout.
The problem is my nutrition ain't right. Quite frankly it's spotty at best. Which basically means I've only lost about 15 lbs after 5 months some intense, grueling workouts. Now make no mistake I am definitely noticing a difference in body composition. Maybe not as dramatic as my first Power 90 cycle from a couple of years ago but but the chest, shoulders and arms look better than they did some months ago. Hell if I could get the food part right I can definitely see where I could have those dramatic results you see on the infomercial. Seriously. I was washing my face this morning and notice my shoulders in the mirror. I thought I seriously need to get my nutrition together cause that is seriously keeping my gut from shrinking dramatically. And yes it has shrunk. Only about 2.5" or so but that's better than it was before and since I am actually getting stronger there is only so much complaining I can do. Considering I started this whole process struggling to do 10 pushups I think am doing pretty good. One of the routines involves no less than 6 different types. Another routines involves another set of push ups different from those. Some of this stuff I never would have even conceived of.
So for the foreseeable future I will be working out 6 days a week. If only to keep the belly shrinking. Yesterday I gave using the resistance bands for the alternate versions of the pullups. But after 2 months of using 2 bands at once I decided that I needed to at least make more of an effort to do it right. While I still can't do one complete pull up I can at least do half of one more than once and if use my tip toes I can do even more than that. And if you can believe it my back is now sore in completely new places. So it might be awhile be for I can do any meaningful corncobs. That's when you do one full pull up and while at the top you move yourself to the right, to the left, then push yourself back, pull yourself back to the bar and then lower your self down. That move counts as one. Yeah inconceivable...
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