Hoff's P90Xperience

12/30/08 - Phase II, Week 7, Day 4 - Kickboxing (In place of Yoga X)

Yes, I know this is becoming a bad habit, but I replaced today's Yoga X with my first night of Kick boxing. I also did an hour and a half of BJJ today. 

I don't plan on making this a regular substitution and by no means do I value Yoga X less important than the other routines, but that 90 minute window of calm/quiet for Yoga is damned hard to come by with the kids off from school...sounds like I'm making excuses.  I need to not rationalize this.

My right leg got hammered during a checked kick tonight in kickboxing, so it's going to be interesting to see how that affects my already sore right knee/leg during the rest of the week.

My New Year's resolution is not to substitute the sessions any further.  I think that instead of a rest day this week (and instead of stretch) I'll do the Yoga X.  

As much as I love having my kids around on holiday, I can't wait until the go back to school so I can get back on my regular schedule! ;)

/Hoff

12/29/08 - Phase II, Week 7, Day 3 - Back & Biceps [Day 45! Half Way!]

I *have* to get my workouts done earlier.  With the kids being off school, errands piling up, regular work and BJJ, my P90X workouts over the last 1.5 weeks have been way too late.  Tonight again I started at about 10:30pm. 

P90X Back & Biceps Done. 741 calories, 21% from fat. Avg HR 127/Max 159. 31 minutes in zone 2, too much in zone 1 (rested a lot)

Like this routine a LOT.  The strip curls at the end are killers and I'm almost maxing out the SelectTechs on the lawnmowers...I'm at 50 lbs and they only go to 52.5! ;)

I'll have to do the ARX tomorrow morning because if I don't eat something, I'm going to fall over dead.

I believe that I hit the half-way point tonight...45 days!  Unless all the blood in my biceps is fudging my math skills which is entirely possible as I can barely type.  I'll have to take some pictures tomorrow for posterity's sake.

/Hoff

12/28/08 - Phase II, Week 7, Day 2 - Plyometrics

I had to start my workout at 10:30pm tonight...of course it had to be plyometrics ;(

It was my 5 yr old's birthday today so we were up and out at 7am to Starbucks for breakfast, at her BJJ class for an hour, back to errands and then out to pickup my new ATV.  Brought that home and promptly destroyed the front and back yards with the kids on said urban assault vehicle.  Then we headed out to the movies for Adam Sandler's Bedtime Stories (it was great) and then to Olive Garden for dinner. 

By the time I got home, sorted and amped up, it was 10:30pm.

Despite that fact and thanks to the awesome CytoSport FastTwitch drink, I spent 24 minutes in zone 3, burned 719 calories, 15% from fat, averaged a HR of 135 with a maximum of 166 in just over an hour, including the bonus round.

Bring it!

12/27/08 - Phase II, Week 7, Day 1 - Chest, Shoulders & Triceps

Form is getting better on almost all of the exercises in this routine.  I wrapped my right wrist which helped on the one-armed balance pushups, plyo pushups and one handers (as well as the side-to-side and fly pushups...) 

The fast/slow twitch pushups I really struggle with as well as the plyo pushups.  The one-arm pushups are getting better.  I'm starting to really push harder with the weight to max out at 8 reps and it's paying off.

I really like this routine as it's driving me to failure on some of the exercises and really making the workouts *feel* like they're delivering immediately.

Tonight's routine burned 662 calories with another 155 on Ab Ripper X.

Week 7.  Into the final half!  Need to watch the diet even more as I've starting to carb bonk since I'm not eating enough and working harder with both P90X and BJJ.

Train hard!

/Hoff

12/26/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 7 - Rest Day

Eat, sleep and be sore.

w00t!

12/25/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 6 - Kenpo X (and a Make-Up ABX)

After a delightful Christmas morning and breakfast with the family, I got down to Kenpo and Ab Ripper X (made up from yesterday) before we had to head out for supper at a neighbors.

It was freaking cold in my workout room again, so much so that during my workout the kids were jumping around filming me laughing as there was steam coming off me in alarming volume...it was funny.

So combined with the Ab Ripper X I burned 813 calories, with over 20 minutes of the workout in Zone 3 and 28 minutes in zone2...

I'm still dealing with this weird position of not being able to take a full deep breath, and I'm wondering if it has something to do with the Fast Twitch supplement I'm taking or the fact that I've been breathing such cold air during the workouts and fluid is condensing in my lungs?

Either way, it's annoying.

...and speaking of annoying, I've done everything I can to correct this problem with the FT80 watch...it's a PoS.  Do not buy one.  Some people (including two that we know here aren't having any problems) but that's outweighed by the hundreds that are with no recourse.

So, no zone graphs again :(

Hope you all are having a great Christmas.  Tomorrow is my rest day and then onto week 7...

/Hoff

12/24/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 5 - Legs & Back

After last night's Yoga session, I've had trouble taking full deep breaths.  I think it may have something to do with how cold it was in the room where I work out...it was very cold and with all the breathing, sucking in cold air perhaps may have condensed a bunch of fluid in the old air sacks (?) That's certainly what it feels like.

Regardless, I did Legs and Back (will work on Ab Ripper X later after the Xmas prezzies are finished being wrapped) and made it through quite well...those speed skaters are getting better and I can get airborne now!

I was beat afterwards because I couldn't breathe very easily.

I managed to cap off 665 calories with the majority of the hour long workout in zone 2.

I'd put the graph up, but the stupid friggin' FT80 software is fubar again :(

I think I'll have to delete my accounts on the web and fresh install the software on a new VM to get it to work given the errors I'm seeing.

Merry Xmas everyone!

/Hoff

12/23/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 4 - Yoga X

After a crazy day, 1.5 hours of BJJ in the afternoon, the PM brought about low carb. bonking.

I ate some dinner, waited a while and at 8:40 pm started on Yoga X.

I was as intense as I could be and in 90 minutes only popped 384 calories, most likely because I was in zone 1 for most of the routine.  The Polar WebSync windows software is having fits and won't upload today's data, so I had to manually enter it.  This means no snazzy graph because the time-interval curve is missing.

/Hoff

12/22/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 3 - Ab Ripper X w/Polar FT80 Graphs

Thanks to @PowerGeek, I am the proud owner of a Polar FT80 fitness computer (watch.)

Like on his blog, I'm going to be uploading my calorie/zone graphs after each workout.

Here's my Ab Ripper X workout from this evening:

The HR zones are calculated based upon personal data you enter into the watch (age, height, weight) and a "fitness test" which basically calculates resting hear rate (mine is 57 - so-called "elite athlete" level...)

I like the fact that during this routine (towards the end) when I work really hard, I'm in the meaty bits of zone 2 and 3...this routine burned 167 calories.  Add the 841 (from my Drive Mio watch) and an hour of BJJ tonight (usually ~700-1000 calories) I'm running a massive deficit today.

/Hoff

12/22/08 - Phase II, Week 6, Day 3 - Back & Biceps

I love this routine.

Today I did all the pull-ups/chin-ups unassisted.  The reps weren't high, but I the form was reasonable and then I did bonus reps. with the assist after I maxed out unassisted.

I'm also raising the weights and lowering the reps. from 10 to 8...it's making a difference strength wise and it's also boosting my calorie burns.

Today's Back & Biceps (will do Ab Ripper X after BJJ tonight) was 841 calories alone.  w00t!

Push play.

/Hoff