Josh Young

North Point Online

Josh Young — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:39:27 +0000

North Point Community Church announced an exciting new venture that will go live on August 16, 2009. They are following in the footsteps of some other churches and offering live services online.

Check it out at northpointonline.tv, and keep them in your prayers as they venture into this new territory.

HT: Los

Meet Our Staff – Josh Young

Josh Young — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:30:28 +0000

Mike posted my “Meet Our Staff” post over at his blog, so I figured I’d link over to it in case there’s something there you didn’t know about me.

Meet Our Staff – Josh Young

Creative & Communications Minister

Josh Young — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:45:49 +0000

This Sunday, July 12, our church will learn the details of an exciting leadership move in our church as we introduce our new Creative and Communications Minister, me!

In this position, I will be responsible for managing all visual communications at ACC. As many of you know, I developed and maintain the ACC website and create many other graphics you see each week. In my new capacity, I’ll also oversee all print publications, signage and other media.

This is currently an unpaid ministry position. I will still be employed full time by an engineering firm. But I am, nonetheless, now an official member of the ACC staff.

As a result of this exciting change, I have also resigned as a deacon at ACC.

This Sunday during both services, I will be sharing my vision for this ministry.

Bringing It

Josh Young — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:30 +0000

Yesterday officially marked day 1 of P90X for me.

One word: PAIN.

Ab Ripper 100 and 200 from Power 90 have NOTHING on Ab Ripper X. 349 movements, each of which come close to killing you.

All I can say is that Tony Horton is an animal, and if I can keep up with the workouts and, more importantly, the nutrition, I probably will be too in 90 days.

Speaking of the food…dang. 2400 calories is a lot more than the 1600 I’m used to from Power 90. It’s hard to even finish it all.

I made it down to 162 lbs and about 18.5% body fat by the end of Power 90 (down from 184 lb at my heaviest and almost 25% body fat). Those results even impressed me. If that’s any indication of how this 90 days will go, I think I’ll be even more surprised. I can’t wait to see how this goes!

No More Beta

Josh Young — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:41:59 +0000

Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and all the G-Unit apps are officially out of beta now.

Check out more info on the Official Gmail Blog

Five years later, and beta is officially no longer cool.

If you really miss it, then you can turn it back on in the Labs section of Gmail. :)

Last Days of P90

Josh Young — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:47:35 +0000

Saturday, July 4, is day 90 for me. Can’t believe it’s almost over. The changes have been stellar.

I hope I’m able to push the intensity even higher when I start P90X on Monday. It’s going to be challenging, that’s for sure.

Didn’t really have anything to say other than that. Hope everyone has a great July 4 weekend. See you on the flip side.

Also, check out Firefox 3.5 which was released earlier this week. Best version yet. I’m back on Firefox now (from Chrome) for a while at least.

Committed to the X

Josh Young — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:14:53 +0000

Well, as of yesterday, I’m officially committed to doing P90X when I’m done with Power 90. I officially place my order for the program. I should have it next week. I wanted to review it and figure out the nutrition stuff before I jump right into it. Now I’ll have plenty of time to do that.

Bring it.

Power 90 – Day 60

Josh Young — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:04:03 +0000

Well, I’ve made it 60 days into this routine. Not too bad. Missed a few times in the last 30 days, but still good overall.

Here are my stats day 1 vs. day 30 vs. Day 60:

	Day 1	Day 30	Day 60
Weight (lb)	173.5	168.0	164.5
Chest (in)	39.5	37.25	37.0
Waist @ bellybutton (in)	39.25	36.5	34.5
Hips @ pantline (in)	37.75	35.5	35.0

So I’ve lost 9.0 lbs (5.19%) during the first 60 days of Power 90, almost 5 inches in the gut and 2.75 inches in the pantline. My heaviest weight was 184.0 lb (which I was at a few months ago, so I’ve actually lost 19.5 lb total so far.

I’m really thinking of ordering P90X now and starting it the day after Day 90 of Power 90. I want to keep up the momentum, and I think I’ll be ready for the X.

I’m anxious to see how the final 30 days of this goes – especially now that I’m off of my blood pressure medicine. I’m feeling much better and have much more energy now because of that, so I’m hoping I’ll see some great results in this last month.

Great News!

Josh Young — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:01:23 +0000

Just got off the phone with the doctor, and as of today, I can officially go off my blood pressure medicine! Hopefully it will stay low and I won’t have to go back on it (at least not for many years). All of this exercise, weight loss and diet changes are having a huge effect, thankfully.

Just thought I’d share the good news. I’m pretty excited about it.

Thank you, Power 90!

Josh is a Big Loser – Week 7

Josh Young — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:44 +0000

Week 7 Stats for Josh is a Big Loser (missed Week 6 post due to Marie’s surgery)

Starting Weight: 176.0 lb
Today’s Weight: 166.5 lb
Weekly Loss: 1.5 lb
Total Loss: 9.5 lb
Total % Loss: 5.40%

This was an interesting week. Marie had surgery on Monday, and I spent my week taking care of her and playing Nurse Josh, so I worked out a total of zero days. I did my best to eat as well as I could, but it was by far the worst week since starting this. I definitely appreciate how much time Marie has put into taking care of both of us on the nutrition side of things (among many other things that she does as well). In no way could I possibly do this by myself. So a big thank you goes out to my beautiful wife for helping me through this. She is pretty amazing.

However, that being said, I still managed to lose 1.5 lb. I think that can be attributed to kicking my butt the past 6 weeks so that I have built lean muscle and my metabolism has dramatically increased. My body was just doing it’s thing, and it worked wonderfully.

Today is day 43 of Power 90, which means I’m nearly half done with the initial program. Even though I didn’t work out at all last week, I moved up to Level III-IV on the videos, and I have to say…it completely kicked my butt today. I had no clue how increasingly hard it was going to be jumping up to the next level. I have no idea how I finished it. I have to say though, I am really excited to see my Day 60 and Day 90 pictures because there is no way that there won’t be a dramatic difference after seeing what I’m going to be doing for the next month and a half. If I can stick with this closely, it ought to really whip me into shape. Now I know why people say they can see the most dramatic results in the last 30 days of the program! Bring it on!