KENPO X ROCKS!

This is still my favorite of the cardio workouts! I always feel fit and strong during this one. Not always flexible, perhaps, but strong and fit both mentally and physically.

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Kenpo X
TODAY'S MENU:
Breakfast--> 8 oz. OJ, banana, Honey Nut Cheerios and skim milk.
Snack--> Power Bar, apple
Lunch--> carrots, hummous, turkey patty
Dinner-->green salad with mushrooms (olive oil and salt), 2 slices of bread, scoop of whey protein in 8 oz skim milk, banana

Truncated, but still as sore as if I had done the whole thing

I lollygagged in bed for half an hour this morning, resulting in my having to shorten the Legs & Back X workout if I was to get Ab Ripper X, breakfast, shower and dress-time in before I hit the road. I still worked just as hard. Ab Ripper X has once again become my sworn nemesis. When I have time, I am going to have to look back and see how I was feeling at this time when I did my first round of this in January 2010. If memory serves, I was dying then too.

I WILL SUCCEED! DAMN THE LACTIC ACID... FULL SPEED AHEAD!

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Legs and Back X, Ab Ripper X
TODAY'S MENU:
Breakfast--> Banana, Coffee, Honey Nut Cheerios and skim milk.
Lunch--> Carrots, hummous, roast beef sandwich on 12-grain
Snack --> Power Bar
Dinner--> Turkey patty, green salad with olive oil and salt, 3/4 cup of herb stuffing

Too sore to be bendy

Yoga X today. This is probably right behind Shoulders and Arms X in terms of my favorite workouts. It's been a while since I did this on a Sunday morning, and I forgot how nice it can be to start out the day like this. I'm still really sore from the Plyo workout, and it makes it tough to be as flexible as I like. But still, experience has taught me that I need to ride out these first couple of weeks in order for it to feel natural. You know, it's funny how I have to remind myself of these little things. At least I am not doing that set of mental gymnastics that I put myself through the first time where I would see the infomercial on TV and hopefully think 'Now, that is going to happen to me too, right?' It will again... because it has before.

That's my little meditation for the workout. :)

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Yoga X
TODAY'S MENU:
Breakfast --> banana, 8 oz. skim milk with a scoop of whey protein and about six strawberries, coffee

The word I want to use rhymes with "quick"

The interesting thing about being in Los Angeles now is that you actually see and sometimes meet people who appear in the movies and videos you've seen. It's happened many times since I've been here. Luckily, I am not one to fawn over these people, but I do notice. As circumstances have fixed it, I see one of the people from the P90X videos on something of a regular basis. We've met, and while this person proved to be very nice at first, some time has passed and he has proven to be something of a consummate jerk. Ordinarily, I wouldn't care, but seeing this guy in today's workout left a real sour taste in my mouth. The sad thing is that it's my favorite of all the P90X workouts... or was. Luckily I finished it all the way through, but I had to turn away from the TV and set the video for "music and cues." Call it stupidity if you wish, but hey I'm only human. I still took action, and I still brought it. Once again, I'm seeing that all the obstacles are in my mind. And they are, but this one was particularly odd. I certainly never expected to run into it.

C'est la vie. {shrug}

Anyway... combined the weights and the bands today. Want to use the dumbbells more than the bands, but I do want to also be mindful of my limitations. Why cause myself harm, right?

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Shoulders and Arms X, Ab Ripper X
TODAY'S MENU:
Breakfast --> spinach omelette, banana, coffee w/ skim milk
Lunch--> power bar, glass of milk, banana
Snack--> small slice of pumpkin pie (I know I know)
Dinner--> 1/3 rotisserie chicken (white meat), spinach salad, about six forkfulls of stuffing.

ZOMG

I don't know what he Z stands for, but I know it puts OMG a step up. And that's how I feel. I sure would lie to attribute my fatigue to the fact that I was sick with a fever last week, or that I am getting older, but the fact is, I don't know what's to blame. I'm even having trouble finishing the workouts this time around! It makes me mad!

Even so, I am not dogging it. I am indeed doing my best... just wish I could forget the rest right now.

Even though the flesh is weak right now, I am glad that I didn't overdo it last night at the Thanksgiving day table. I actually had only one helping and ate a reasonable sized portion. Aunt Sadie makes a wonderful brisket! Thank you m'dear! And huge thanks to my family in the OC who had me over last night. It was a fantastic night!

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Plyomertics X

TODAY'S MENU:
Breakfast: Honey Nut Cherrios and 8 oz. skim milk, coffee w/ 1/2 & 1/2, half a bottle of Tropicana orange juice.
Lunch: leftover turkey, stuffing, corn, slice of pumpking pie (I'm sorry but I can't let that go to waste!)
Dinner: 1/2 rotisserie chicken, a couple of forkfulls of stuffing, corn

Okay folks, here we go again....

I've slacked off long enough. I was really good about this for a few months in the beginning of the year and got great results... till an injury stopped me dead in my tracks. After I lost my job last summer, I was back in the basement where it was nice and cool, pumping it out with Tony & Company... Didn't blog, but as doing the work. Even so, I fell off again after moving to LA. Guess I was hoping that access to USC's facilities and all the eye candy in the form of Division I athletes was going to keep me motivated. It didn't. Eye candy is nice to look at, but it still provides absolutely no structure.
This has worked in the past... injury or no injury, job or no job. Time to get back to what kept me going, working hard, and excited about what I was doing and the results I was getting. I'm even going back to blogging about it... it kept me accountable. So, tune in... I'll be writing again every day and waxing eloquent about the workouts and about life.

The magic question, of course, might be: "Is it a coincidence that you are picking Thanksgiving (i.e., the "eatingest" holiday of the US calendar) to start again? It is... entirely. Either it's going to be today or it will be never. This is less a pre-emptive strike against the upcoming holidays as it is a pre-emptive strike against that endless cycle of saying "Oh, I'll do it tomorrow" and knowing deep down inside that tomorrow never comes!

So... back to Tony's rather impotent humor, Dreya's enviable abs, Adam's seemingly unachievable torso, Dominic's bounciness, and Pam Ba-BLAM! And back to the accompanying hard work....

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X

TODAY'S MENU:
breakfast --> egg salad sandwich, banana, coffee
lunch and dinner --> everything on the Thanksgiving Day table! (heh heh)