Day 2
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Day 2 - Chest and Back
Today was the first official exercise day of the program. We woke up and stumbled downstairs, sleep still in our eyes, "ready" to tackle the first exercise DVD of the program. Today would be the chest and back routine, which consisted primarily of different types of push-ups and pull-ups. In lieu of the pull ups Chelsea and I were using resistance bands wrapped round the spindles of our stair case. It worked fairly well.
The routine was hard. No joke. I think I managed to complete about 50% of what the fit freaks were doing on the DVD. We hadn't taken into account the fact that the DVD doesn't allow for any breaks whatsoever. When the book says that the routine is 54 minutes, that means 54 minutes of no breaks, rests, or stops. Naturally, Chelsea and I had to rest in between sets since we're no where near the fitness level of the beautiful people on the teevee. That's why we finished in about 1h20min, and didn't have time to do the ab program afterwards.
I may have pushed myself too hard during the routine, as I'm wont to do. I felt nauseous by the end of it, and we still had their ab/core routine to do. It's called "Ab Ripper X" and I feel idiotic just writing it. In any case, we decided to wait until after work to do the abs routine. Now it was time for breakfast, and I was looking forward to it. Tuesday's morning meal consisted of a protein shake, with fruit, protein powder, skim milk and ice. Nice, sounds pretty good. I was sure I could keep it down despite feeling sick to my stomach.
Nothing could prepare me for the amount of shake I had to drink. I stared, wide eyed, at the brimming blender. I had about 1.5L (3 pints for you old schoolers) worth of fruit, protein and milk to drink. Oh well, sit down and work through it. 25 minutes later I finished off my last glass of the stuff. I might have been able to chug it all down in 5 minutes had I not been feeling ill. Apparently the early morning routine didn't agree with me at all. I hauled ass to get cleaned up and dressed, and rushed out to work.
Snacks this day were the same as Monday: recovery drink + bar in the morning, and string cheese in the afternoon.
I decided that day, after finishing my pound and a half of veggies and shrimp, that this meal plan was ridiculous, and had to go. I had subscribed to another fat-loss plan by Tom Venuto called "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" that included a rather sensible diet regime. I adopted that into our P90X program since the end goals were the same. The diet is essentially calorie reduced, but the calorie breakdown is much more similar to a standard diet. The majority of calories come from carbohydrates (the higher quality ones preferrably, but not required), with a moderate amount of protein and a low amount of fat. We've stuck to this diet ever since, and it seems to be working well.
Dinner that evening was much better: roasted, marinated chicken breast, with salsa rice and salad. Dinner took about 20 minutes to prepare, and only 10-15 minutes to eat. Woot!
That night we decided to move our exercise time to the evening, right after work and right before dinner. Chelsea still had early morning rowing to contend with (5am instead of 5:30, yikes!) so she would skip the afternoon routine.
Today was the first official exercise day of the program. We woke up and stumbled downstairs, sleep still in our eyes, "ready" to tackle the first exercise DVD of the program. Today would be the chest and back routine, which consisted primarily of different types of push-ups and pull-ups. In lieu of the pull ups Chelsea and I were using resistance bands wrapped round the spindles of our stair case. It worked fairly well.
The routine was hard. No joke. I think I managed to complete about 50% of what the fit freaks were doing on the DVD. We hadn't taken into account the fact that the DVD doesn't allow for any breaks whatsoever. When the book says that the routine is 54 minutes, that means 54 minutes of no breaks, rests, or stops. Naturally, Chelsea and I had to rest in between sets since we're no where near the fitness level of the beautiful people on the teevee. That's why we finished in about 1h20min, and didn't have time to do the ab program afterwards.
I may have pushed myself too hard during the routine, as I'm wont to do. I felt nauseous by the end of it, and we still had their ab/core routine to do. It's called "Ab Ripper X" and I feel idiotic just writing it. In any case, we decided to wait until after work to do the abs routine. Now it was time for breakfast, and I was looking forward to it. Tuesday's morning meal consisted of a protein shake, with fruit, protein powder, skim milk and ice. Nice, sounds pretty good. I was sure I could keep it down despite feeling sick to my stomach.
Nothing could prepare me for the amount of shake I had to drink. I stared, wide eyed, at the brimming blender. I had about 1.5L (3 pints for you old schoolers) worth of fruit, protein and milk to drink. Oh well, sit down and work through it. 25 minutes later I finished off my last glass of the stuff. I might have been able to chug it all down in 5 minutes had I not been feeling ill. Apparently the early morning routine didn't agree with me at all. I hauled ass to get cleaned up and dressed, and rushed out to work.
Snacks this day were the same as Monday: recovery drink + bar in the morning, and string cheese in the afternoon.
I decided that day, after finishing my pound and a half of veggies and shrimp, that this meal plan was ridiculous, and had to go. I had subscribed to another fat-loss plan by Tom Venuto called "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" that included a rather sensible diet regime. I adopted that into our P90X program since the end goals were the same. The diet is essentially calorie reduced, but the calorie breakdown is much more similar to a standard diet. The majority of calories come from carbohydrates (the higher quality ones preferrably, but not required), with a moderate amount of protein and a low amount of fat. We've stuck to this diet ever since, and it seems to be working well.
Dinner that evening was much better: roasted, marinated chicken breast, with salsa rice and salad. Dinner took about 20 minutes to prepare, and only 10-15 minutes to eat. Woot!
That night we decided to move our exercise time to the evening, right after work and right before dinner. Chelsea still had early morning rowing to contend with (5am instead of 5:30, yikes!) so she would skip the afternoon routine.
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