Weight Loss Journal - Currently doing P90x

Update

2009-10-19T06:47:00.001-07:00

For those of you wondering about my progress...

I have injured my shoulder. I can hardly do a pushup or anything with weights or bands. I am simply trying to watch my food and do cardio. I am trying to lose more weight but the P90x is on hold at the moment.

Wife had the flu, but is back going strong with it.

For those of you still finding my blog and reading through it. I can't stress enough how great P90x is. I never did lose a great amount of weight, but inches came off, clothes fit better, energy was better.

Not sure whats next. I will definately do P90x in the future. I'm thinking about trying to lose another 40lbs to get me to 300 and then attacking P90x again from the start.

Thanks for reading and I will be back

Week 11 - Day 74

2009-09-25T06:02:00.001-07:00

Still not a fan of Yoga. Ran on the treadmill. Its amazing how far I can run now before having to walk for a little bit. Shoulder still painful (Hurt shaking pepper on to supper lol) and knee hurting doing squats. Knee really didn't bother me running though.

Week 11 - Day 72 - Plyo

2009-09-23T06:39:00.000-07:00

I swear the I am having more and more problems the further I get. My knee has been really stiff and sore. Plyo didn't help it much but made it through. It seems that the finish line is in site but getting more and more difficult.

Week 11 - Yes Again

2009-09-22T11:40:00.000-07:00

So I started week 11 again, feels good to be able to do real pushups for a lot of them. Knee pushups are just embarrassing lol. Plyo tonight, getting stronger and stronger.

Week 11

2009-09-18T13:58:00.000-07:00

Ok, so it has been a bad week for me. My right shoulder is killing me which really made some of the arm workouts tough. Felt nautious all through plyo and didn't do Yoga last night. Even though I did the other workouts I was not feeling great about it. Felt like I was half-assing it if that makes sense. I am going to keep going and finish this week out, but I will be redoing week 11 next week.

60 Day Pics

2009-09-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

Well here they are. I can tell in back picture some, but it is what it is. About to start my video for tonight.

Week 11 - Day 71 - P90x Chest and Back

2009-09-15T07:00:00.001-07:00

I did my last Chest and Back workout for round one of P90x. As embarrasing as this is, here is an interesting number from the first exercise "Standard Pushups"

Week 1 - 3 Full 15 on my knees
Week 11 - 20 Full 8 on my knees

I thought this was a nice gain.

Week 10 - Day 70 - Kenpo X

2009-09-14T05:22:00.000-07:00

Still alive and kicking. I did Kenpo Sunday instead of Saturday so I could do it with the wife. Much less of the day gone when we can do it at the same time. Still haven't had a chance to get my 60 day pics up, but they are coming.

Week 10 Day 66 - Back and Biceps

2009-09-10T06:28:00.000-07:00

Another great workout, I see my numbers getting higher. I can see muscles in my arms, shoulders and back that great. Unfortunatley, I still struggling with diet. I have some good days and then bad days. It is depressing thinking that if I could manage to follow the diet hardcore I would probably have lost another 30lbs by now.

Still going still pushing play

Week 10 - Day 65 - Plyometrics

2009-09-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

Another day another dvd. Again, I couldn't get to my workout until 10:30. The problem with that is I'm always wired for another couple hours after the workout and dragging the next day. All in all though a good workout. It's amazing how much sweat these things produce.

On a side note, my wife just started week three of P90x lean and has already seen an inch off her waist. She is officially hooked

Week 10 - Day 64 - P90X

2009-09-08T07:54:00.000-07:00

Had five days off with some vacation time and the holiday and enjoyed it to the fullest. Missed Friday's workout, but got to take the family to a minor league baseball game for free. Did Legs/Back on Saturday and Kenpo on Sunday. It was late, but managed my arms workout last night around 10pm. Still fighting the diet everday, but going strong.

Week 9 - Day 60 - Picture Day

2009-09-03T06:02:00.000-07:00

So again, I can't make myself do yoga. I know I should but it makes me want to quit lol. Instead I went to the gym and ran 1.5 miles non stop. Did this a couple weeks ago I shaved about 30 seconds from that time so it felt good. Before I started I couldn't run for more than 4 minutes before needing to walk.

I will get my pictures up as soon as I can

Week 9 - Day 59 - Shoulders and Arms

2009-09-03T03:58:00.000-07:00

Finished another great resistance workout and did the ab Dvd. I had bought some 10lb weights which helped me push even harder on some of the moves like straight arm flys. 3 days of watching my diet and working out hard has me dropping lbs and hopefully inches. Just need to keep it up and not blow it on the weekend.

Tomorrow is my day 60 pics. No idea what to expect since I did have a few bumps in the road. I will post them on here once i get them uploaded

Week 9 - Day 58 - Plyometrics

2009-09-02T05:01:00.000-07:00

Another great workout and a great day for my diet. I must confirm what everyone says, diet a huge part of this. The strange thing about the workouts lately is I feel like I'm not able to do as much as before. However, on closer inspection, I'm jumping higher on plyo excercises and pushing myself harder, which in turn makes me not last as long. At least I think this makes sense. Example, Run squats. I started out being able to do run squats and doing a step turn on the 4th one and I still couldn't keep up with Tony. Last night, I kept up speed wise and did the jump turn, but then couldn't make it past 25seconds.

On a side note, my wife complained for the first week that she better see some results soon or she's done with it lol. I tolk her give it a minimum 30 days and you will notice. Well last night she came down saying, I think I can tell some difference in my arms. She seems to be hooked now.

Week 9 - Day 57 -

2009-09-01T13:43:00.000-07:00

Back to push ups and pull ups. Love the feeling in my arms after this workout. Did great on the diet yesterday. Just need to keep it up.

End of Week 8 and Phase 2

2009-08-31T06:24:00.000-07:00

I am on a downward spiral. I did my workouts this week, but my diet has been awful. I ate out most of the week. I even had pop. Going to try and get back on track today. I really love the resistance workouts. It beats me up and I feel sore but great the following day. I can't seem to get rid of a head cold that has made it difficult to catch my breath during the workouts. Tried over the counter stuff and just makes me groggy and feel worse. Just need to get out of this funk.

Week 8 - Day 53 - XStretch

2009-08-28T11:51:00.001-07:00

I went to the gym today and did 3 miles on the treadmill. I ran for probably close to 2 miles of that. Worked up a great sweat. The main reason for going to the gym was to cancel my membership. This really freaks me out. It almost feels like I'm giving up but P90x is working as of right now and I could use the monthly income in many other ways.

On a side note, canceling a gym membership is more high pressure than buying a car lol. I finally lied and said I was relocating for work. It worked though.

Week 8 - Day 52- Kenpo X

2009-08-27T07:29:00.000-07:00

I was able to keep up really well last night with Kenpox. Still feeling my stomach muscles from Core. I am probably going to do some sort of cardio tonight instead of stretch x

Week 8 - Day 51 - Core

2009-08-26T07:33:00.001-07:00

So the wife returned after a long 4 days and I finally got to work out with no kids interfering and before 8pm. This seems to work best for me. She also started P90x lean. I forced her to take pictures but she refused to do her workout in front of me. So 7-8 I did Core and 8-9 she did core lol. Feeling in my abs today so I did a decent job of focusing on my core and can't believe I'm almost done with phase 2.

End of Week 7 - P90x

2009-08-23T10:31:00.000-07:00

Another screwed up weekend. Wife is out of town again so its just me and the kids. I did Ab Ripper X Friday night after kids went to bed. Got up early Saturday and we went to the waterpark all day. Came home and spent three hours cleaning up daughters room and realized it was late. So onto Sunday.

Did legs DVD with no cooldown, then popped in Kenpox with no warm up since I just did the legs and back. Again, did all the DVD's this week but not on the correct days.

I still feel great about the fact that I'm excercising 6+ hours a week after almost 2 months.

Week 7 - Day 46 P90x

2009-08-21T08:11:00.000-07:00

Once again, I substituted for Yoga. I always tell myself I'm going to give it a shot but I can't take it. I know the stretching is good but I don't substitute easy stuff. I first went to my treadmill for 20minutes. Roughly 15 minutes running and 5 minutes walking. I was amazed that I was able to run for so long before stopping for a few to catch my breath. Another sign this program is working. I then did Cardio X after the treadmill.

Oh and I had a piece of my wife's birthday cake.

Week 7 - Day 45 - Halfway Mark

2009-08-20T05:56:00.000-07:00

So after a grueling Back and Bicep workout last night it dawned on me that I was at the halfway point. I feel I have done great with the workouts and so-so with the diet. Like my 30 day pics, I find myself starting to feel anxious about the 60 day pics. I need to push hard and really shoot for some great 60 day pics.

Week 7 - Day 44 - P90x Plyometrics

2009-08-19T08:25:00.001-07:00

I really pushed it on this one. Felt great. I'm getting ahead of myself since I don't "officially" way myself until Monday mornings but I am shredding some pounds this week so far. Just need to keep it up.

Week 7 - Day 43 - P90x

2009-08-18T05:27:00.000-07:00

My arms are dead today. Great workout last night even though it was late. I had also lifted with a couple guys at work today. They simply do a few sets of bench press but they wanted to see what p90x was capable of. Before P90x I was able to do three sets of 135 (sets of 10), after warming up with 135 I did the following sets of 225 (5, 4, 3). They were impressed that I could lift that much from 40 days of push ups and resistance training.

End of Vacation Week

2009-08-17T06:52:00.001-07:00

I had a few people email me and ask so I thought I would post. I was able to lose 1.6lbs during my "vacation week". I mixed it up with the cardio and kenpo dvd's. I watched my diet except for one dinner at the Cheesecake factory. Back to week 7 today.