Yoga Belly 7 times

Well, Adam showed off the veggies he bought at the farmers market, here are my own Organically grown tomatoes from my backyard. Those are herlooms in my hand and two different varieties of plants behind them. Golden Cherries and Early Girls. You see folks, I'm willing to take it a step further for our environment. You want locally grown organic produce? It doesn't get any more local than my backyard for me.
Yoga X in the bag. I was saying to myself after the moving options that I'd just get through Wheel and then I'd turn it off but I want my abs to pop so I finished it and didn't turn it off untill Rapinski's favorite pose, the corpse.

Sheets are closed out Bitches!

Wow! I've filled out my last P90X weight work out sheet for the last time this year. I will be training for a Olympic Distance triathlon that is on Novemeber 1st. I have done 9 tris in the last 7 years and in most cases I did these tris while weighing more than I do right now. In fact, I will be starting my Tri training program lighter than I've been on race day for any of the previous 9 races. I'm looking forward to the process and the results.
A story that must be shared. Over the weekend, the family and I went to the local pool for some fun in the sun. In the past, I was not the biggest fan of strutting around the pool deck with my shirt off. More of a Chris Farley type suck the gut in and ask people where the weight room was. However, now I'm happy to Peacock around without a shirt. Later that day after we put the kids down for their nap, my wifey says to me, Honey you look really good. I was checking you out when you were on the other side of the pool and for a second I didn't realize it was you, she said to herself, "that guy is ripped" then she realized it was me and told me that for a brief second she felt like she was cheating on me by looking at some other dude.
That made this whole 6 months worth it.

Plyo- done! ARX done

I only did half the Plyo workout this morning and did AbRipperX in its entirety. I'm running after work and frankly I am sick and tired of jumping around with Frog boy in my garage. I would have ran this morning if my wife wasn't at the gym so I was on kid duty as while half-heartedly trying to get into PlyometriX.
Tomorrow will be my last big lifting day untill recovery week. I will be out of town this weekend so Legs and Back will be substituted by a 25 mile bike ride and 7 mile run in Napa. I'll do ARX one day then it's recovery time MFers!

Closing out Chest Shoulders and Tris Week 12

I started this phase of the workout doing a total of 151 pushups in week 5, I finished doing 168. I did 15 clappers and felt strong throughout.
This picture says it all, I can't wait for something new.
I'm Allen Iverson tired.

Saturday, Basketball

Iceman's back! Back Again! Iceman's back, tell a friend!
Wow, the first game, I took it slow like HHH told me to and got into with a 50 year old dude whose bark was worse than his bite. Then, I ended up running 5 straight games to 27 before my team finally lost. I then hit the elliptical glider for a mile and also did a mile on the stationary bike before cooling down. As I was deep in the mile on the Elliptical admiring myself in the mirror, I had a moment of clarity. I had just played basketball for 2 straight hours and didn't feel like I'd gotten enough work in so I headed into the gym and busted out 2 more miles, roughly 15 mins more cardio. I started the morning with Ab Ripper X at home to warm up and finished the day strong! If you want proof that this program works, there you go, 6 months ago, I'd been sprawled out on the floor wondering how I'd get my big ass home.
Thanks Brad for saving my life!
I took Sunday off, had planned to get Yoga in but passed on it, will get Yoga and a run in after work.
2 weeks left and then on to Triathlon training.

Beach Day

I rocked it Tony style in a wife beater.
This is becoming old hat for me.
I'm the man, HHH will confirm it!

Plyo X is hard!

I started the morning with ARX as I skipped it due to time and the fact that I had done yoga the day before. It is nice to do it when you aren't completely wasted from a workout. Then I proceeded to jump around for 50 minutes of plyo. I'm playing basketball Saturday morning so we'll see if this workout has down anything for my awesome vertical.
I may be dunking on people

21 to 233 Are you kidding me?

Week 11 comes with the wonderful feeling of closing out sheets. To be honest, I almost pulled a Farrell this morning as I got almost halfway through this workout and wanted to quit. I had even convinced myself that half of this workout is a better workout than most people ever do. However, Pac Man and HHH's mantra of 80% rang through my head and the inner meat head took over.

I finished today doing 233 regular push ups. Day 1 I was only able to do 44 total push ups, 23 of these were on my knees. I was not able to do any regular free form pull ups on day 1 and the first day of this phase saw me do 9 free form pull ups. Today I was able to get 31 free form pull ups. So, 21 to 233 push ups and 0 to 31 pull ups.

Thanks Tony. More importantly thanks Brad!

Weekend away and back at it for week 11

I had a weekend away this week and with 2 straight weeks of houseguests wearing on me, I nearly cracked. I missed Yoga on Friday and went for a 17 mile bike ride Saturday morning instead of legs and back and then proceeded to skip the next 2 days while not following the diet to the absolutel letter of the law. I went to bed last night planning to do Yoga this morning as I've missed it the last two weeks. 2 weeks ago, I half assed it and last week I missed it, so I woke up before 5:00 this morning and got Yoga in to it's completion. Man, do I feel much better. After the weekend I fully expected to back up to 213 and maybe even 215 but when I jumped on the scale it read 210. What a wonderful surprise. I will be starting week 11's workout tomorrow, thus starting the process of closing out sheets!
The end is in sight! I can not wait!

Ran last night and Back and Bis this morning

Got home last night and went for a 4 mile run.
Back and bis this morning.

What else can I say, 12 free form pull ups to start and 15 more on the total than ever before.
This is still working.
I'm hungry!

Ab Rippppppppper X

Did ARX this morning in liue of any other workout as we had a long night with the kids and my wifey was asleep till 8:00. I'll run this afternoon to compensate for missing plyo and on to Back and bis tomorrow.

Week 10! Give the people what they want

It's been nearly 11 weeks since I exposed myself to the world wide web and honestly, I've been feeling a bit like Adam PacMan Hairass about my body. I didn't think I was seeing any changes from the end of the first phase through today but pictures don't lie. I still have a layer of flubber over the 6 pack but I'm going to up the cardio for the next month as well as do P90x and see what happens.

Did Chest Shoulders and tris and topped my push up numbers from the last workout. Each time out I expect a new Personal best and it's happening.

HHH is out, it's down to PacMan and I, I've also got a couple of guys here at work trying to get going.

Nice Weather weekends make it tough to hit the Studio

I love the nice weather, and I hate it! I took Friday off as a rest day, we had house guests, and planned to get Yoga in on Saturday before Golf but a late night caused me to skip that too. I went on a 24 mile bike ride yesterday afternoon and felt strong. It's interesting how in shape you get with this program but it's a different kind of fitness. My muscles and stamina are there but being back on a bike is a different feeling and it took about 20 mins to get into it. Then for the next hour I felt strong. I definately notice a difference in my staying power. Climbing hills with no problem well into my ride. I could have stayed out longer than the hour and a half that I was out, but it was Sunday afternoon and I couldn't abandon my wife 2 days in a row. I golfed on Saturday and again shot well for me. It could have been a better score but given my lack of time on a putting green or around a chipping green, I'm happy with my game. I credit a lot of my improved game to the workouts. I shot a 90 with a 48 on the front and a 42 on the back. ( 2 birdies, 4 pars and at least 3 other birdie putts that turned into bogies)
I may try to get Yoga in today but we'll see. Week 10 is upon us.

You need a break...take it!

I'm taking today off. The schedule is cramped today and I really want to do Yoga tomorrow before I golf as it had a big impact on my score last week.
Yoga Belly 7 times tomorrow and Legs and Back on Sunday with a some tennis
Glorious weekend!

Shoulders and Arms- Beach day

Somedays I really am in love with myself and others I really am in love with someone else. This morning was a self loving day. Maybe it has to do with the positive reinforcement from my lady or the fact that when I'm working out now and catch a glimpse of myself in the garage window, I'm shocked that is what I look like.
My wife was having a moment last night on aging and getting old and concerned about the impending downhill slide to death's door. She's at home with the kids all day which is exhausting without any real promise of a future or any rewards other than a thank you from me and a few hugs from the girls. As we were chatting I told her what I've heard Tony say time and again. I feel like I'm in college again, I look like I'm only 30 years old, have actually had people think I was in my 20's and I'm psyched to have found this. I also told her that is we live right and take care of ourselves, we've got a good 20 year plus run at looking relatively similar to what we do now. This is what led me to my my self love affair this morning at 6:00 am. I'm 36, feel like I'm younger than 26 and feel great everyday. Anyway, enough about me, you can talk about me.
I ran 5 miles last night and the first half was into a massive headwind, then got up and pushed play today. I found a website that helps track your daily diet yesterday and compiled a list of what I take in. I see that I may not be eating enough, just shy of 3000 calories. Check it out I need to cut out some of the fat and find some calories somewhere.

Ab Ripper XXXXXXXXXXX. I awoke this morning a little late and had not done ARx yesterday so I popped it in before Plyo and busted it out in it's entirety. I did not do Plyo as I'm a bit burned out on Tony. I know I know, that's blasphemy. In fact, while flipping through the channels before bed last night, I again stopped on "The Proof" the P90x infomercial only to hear my wife say, don't you get enough of that man? Well, I guess to answer her question, I am getting my fill. I will be running this afternoon and back in the studio tomorrow morning bright and early. I just want to get outside and feel the warm air, and run along the marina green and Crissy field. The scenery has been amazing the last couple of days and I want to take advantage of that.

On another note, my tailor is loving me lately. Today, I'll be dropping off another suit and pair of slacks as I look like I'm swimming in these things. It's days like this that make me realize this program has changed my body and I feel extremely fortunate to have a buddy like HHH to even suggest that this may work for me.

Start of Week 9

Good morning Tour De France!
Back to the world of Chest and Back. Old fashioned Pushing and pulling. I increased my numbers on Pull ups from week 3 but I lost a little ground on Push ups. I did 1 less Push up today than I did in week 3. Pathetic! I didn't pace myself. I started out of the gates and busted out 35 standard push ups for the first set which after I did, I felt a Little winded but figured I could battle through it.
I did well through the entire workout but the lack of focus on my diet the last few days was very apparent today. I need to really clean it up and get after it for the next 5 weeks. I also need to clear this sinus infection for good.
I'm beginning to obsess already about my plan after P90X part duex is complete.
Kiscoe It?

4th of July McPizza!

I pushed everything back a day this week due to the sinus infection, got a z pack on Wednesday morning and did Yoga Thursday, golfed the best round I've had in a while a legit 89 at Stonetree, and went for a 7 mile run on Friday before heading to the Marin County Fair. Saturday was stretch day and I skipped it and McPizzad all day long. I ate so poorly that by 5:00 I had hearburn from the over indulgence of carbs in my system. I also did my own little study on weight and its importance as a measuring tool for this workout program. After my run on Friday I weighed 207, after a day of gluttony on Saturday I weighed 216. That's 9lbs of difference. Now, how is this possible and how does this have any bearing on my program. Weight is merely another unit of measure to keep track of your body. The number I want to calculate is fat% and the measurement that matter most is inches off certain parts of your body.
I'm looking forward to the next 4 weeks of working out and I needed a couple of days to say fuck it with my diet to prevent cheating down the road. I've also enjoyed this recovery week as it came during a bit of a break from work too so it has felt like a real break for my body.
I just need to get a little more rest.
Adios Muchachos!
Go Tiger!

ZPack

Just got to the doctor and got myself a Zpack.
Skipped Yoga this morning and intend to do it this afternoon, we'll see, I may just push things till tomorrow.