LovnLife4NSR’s Mind

Alright, my body is taking a butt-kicking between the new P90X exercise and diet program. Great thing, not even a week completed and I’m already seeing results. I can see changes to my body and I’ve already lost several pounds. Excellent!

Day 2: Polymetrics (58:36), This is a fun cardio. You do alot of jumping, squats and sport-like moves. By the time I got Rock-Star Hop I could barely get my legs off the ground. The sports moves are fun. I can’t throw a left-handed pitch for the life of me. I look some dork who was injected with a muscle relaxer and I can only move half my body. The next morning, I didn’t want to get out of bed and walk to the kitchen. My legs were pretty dead. Great workout.

Day 3: Abs (16:07-done in a.m.),Shoulders & Arms (59:53 done in p.m.), The ab workout is a killer workout. I needed to stretch because my legs were sore and the first handful of ab exercises require you to use your legs. I thnk my ab exercises took a step-back because I couldn’t push through the exercises. I had to stop because my legs were on fire. That will change over time, I hope. This was a nice arm and shoulder lifting program. I needed to go heavier on the weights when I’m performing the bicep exercises. I hit everyting else just right. My shoulders are sore. My triceps were sore, but they are better.

Day 4: Yoga (92:24), Alls I have to say is I’m now a huge fan of yoga. This program kicked my ass. It requires so much energy and focus to execute and maintain all those poses. I couldn’t believe how much I sweated through this workout. It wasn’t as much as the polymetrics, but it was more then I expected. When  got done with this program I just went outside, kicked it in a lounge chair and let the day float by. I was tired!

Day 5: Legs & Back(58:56), Abs (16:07), I was nervous rolling into this workout because my legs were already sore from all the cardio. This program is good for working those legs. The calf exercise is a good workout. I think it was three minutes long. By the time I got to the type of calf raises my calves were really pissed off. I can feel it today. When I sat down at the computer my legs and calves cried in relief. The back exercises contained all pull-up type exercises. This time I did the bar. Got my butt kicked. I think I will use the bar for the chest/back day and bands for the leg/back day. Change it up a little bit.

Day 6: kenpo (55:46), We will be doing this tonight. This cardio workout requires alot of punching and kicking like exercises. It looks like fun. Hope it kicks my butt and keeps me entertained.

Day 7: stretch (57:32), This is considered your off day. I’m looking forward to doing the stretch program because I suck at stretching. I have always ignored it. So, I’m pretty stoked to be actually doing it. I need to start stretching in the morning on the days we workout in the evening.

Nutrition: I could go on and on about this. I think I will write a different blog about this, some other time.My wife calls their nutrition book the bible. We have keep charts of our calorie intake and the required servings. We have been dead-on with it. Most of the time we are 50 calories lower than their daily calorie intake. When you make the meals they look huge on your plate. But after you eat them, you feel good and not all fat and miserable.

We are already seeing changes and progress with this exercise program. I already see muscle definitions, as does my wife. My stomach is less doughy (as my son calls it) and my wife says her butt’s jiggle time has dropped a lot! There are days when we have felt great and there are days we have felt tired. It’s a good tired. Not like a hang-over tired or a spun-out kind of tired. I have been sleeping great. One night I nailed down 9 hours of sleep and followed it up with a two hour nap. It’s been years since I have slept that much. Well, gotta go. If you took time out of your life to read about mine- THANK YOU SO MUCH. Have a great day, week and 4th of July! Stay strong!

Just finished the first day of P90X last night.We did the chest/back workout.It was pretty tough.My arms are sore and my shoulders are stiff. You rotate exercises. Chest first and back second.There are two rounds of it.The second round is the same exercises, but you have to do them for longer. By the time I got to the diamond push-ups my arms were weak and I could feel my dinner in the back of my throat. Excellent! I love being pushed like that. I got a pretty good pump in my chest from all the different exercises. That shocked me a little. I didn’t use the pull-up bar. Instead I used the resistant bands. I’ll work up to the bar soon. I was just getting a feel for the program. You can keep notes of how many push-ups you do. I don’t care about the numbers right now. I just want to finish it. I paused a couple of times during the various push-up routines. My goal is to complete each push-up exercise and never pause during the given time. After that, maybe I’ll count. I need to use the notesheet to log my weight usage. I could have gone heavy on some of the back exercises.

The diet/nutrition book is pretty cool. The book they give you is real easy to follow. It pretty much holds your hand through the 3 months you train. I’m in Level 2 of the Phase 1 based upon my weight. Actually, it’s not far off from what I eat now. The only difference is I’m actually exercising and lifting weights. Hence, I’ll be burning more calories than I did before. So, we’ll see how I react to that. We can’t afford to eat fish every other night, but thanks to this book it’s easy to figure the nutrional value for a substitue dinner. Thats means a lot of chicken for me. Oh-boy.

Two things we did last night that kind of hurt us was this: 1)We paused for 10 minutes during the workout to put our daughter to sleep.So, we were well rested and not as winded. I think if we were able to go through none stop we could burned more calories because we would have had to push ourselves harder. No biggie. 2)When we got done with the chest/back exercise we had to put our son to sleep (he worked out with us-he knocked out 18 push-ups and he is 4!). When we put him to sleep we drank our recovery drink and didn’t realise we were suppose to do the ab workout too. Considering we were pretty nauseated just from the first program we weren’t up to doing the ab workout after we just downed a shake. We were bummed, but we’ll attack it tomorrow.

In all, I really like this program. It’s hard, but it’s fun too!I’m gonna keep track of my progress, but I don’t have time to log it every day. I will get to it though. Oh-yeah, don’t buy their supplemental packages. Just google their nutritional value and buy stuff thats the same, but less expensive. You already have to invest good money into the food part and some exercise products. Do your homework and save money! Make sure you take your before pictures and do your measurments!Stay strong!

I thought I was going to receive my P90X package yesterday. I was trackng it with the UPS tracking system and it stated that it was arriving today. I own a business and I order supplies all the time, so I know when my UPS driver is going to show up. He shows up during the time I usually lift. So, I didn’t lift yesterday because I was going to use that time to get introduced to the program. Well damnit, the package never came. They dropped it off at the post office to be delivered the next day. Hey, go Brown! I ended up missing out on my workout because I only so much time to exercise and I wasted it waiting for the package. I was upset. I’ve been exercising for 3 weeks now and it has become a important need for me. I can’t miss a day of exercising. I don’t like the way I feel when I haven’t worked out. Plus, since I have been working out I actually sleep more than 5 hours a night. The next morning I actually feel great. Last night, I only got 4 hours of sleep and none of it wa in a row. I don’t feel so great this morning. The reason I’m writing this blog is because I want to know if people feel the same way I do when they miss a work out? Is it healthy for me to think that working out is a vital success to my well being? I just wonder if I should have a better mental approach to this? Not be so negative if I miss a work out?Thanks for your time and stay strong.

With the cost of gas and everything else rising my wife and I have noticed that people are starting to eat less healthy food and more processed food. Processed food is way more cheaper and a lot of people are struggling because of all the price inceases. Does anyone here in bodyspace seem to be struggling with the price increases? We struggle with our bills, but we’ll cut costs elsewhere to help eat and live a healthier lifestyle. We don’t want our kids eating crappy food. Obesity is already one of the major leading causes of death in America. Now it’s only getting tougher to fight with everything rising in costs. So, my wife and I are constantly researching on how to save money and reduce costs. I thought I would share some ways we have helped save money and adjust to rising prices.

My wife read this article that suggested you make a list of the items you needed and when you receive your Sunday & Wednseday saving ads you shop at the store(s) that have those items on sale. It may not be the same name brand you always buy, but it is the product/food that you need. My wife has been doing this for a couple of months now and she said that are bill went down from $300.00 to $210.00 (on average). We haven’t reduced our shopping list. We just go and purchase the product thats on sale. Thats a pretty big jump in cost reduction. We only buy things that are on sale. IF we have to go to two stores get all the items we need then we do it. You have to stick with the sales prices. Oh-yeah, use coupons. On avrage, my wife cuts cost between $10.00-$15.00 each time she uses coupons along with the sale prices. Hey that helps put 2 to 3 gallons more in your tank!

As for gas costs, we tried to find the less expensive places. For us, thats Safeway and Costco gas. We also make A LOT less trips to run errands. We usually only do errands on days we work. Thats helped a little. The nice thing with shopping at Safeway we usually get some discount off our next gas purchase. Another little bonus. I have also read articles about how gas stations are willing to give discounts off their gas prices if you pay in gas. Another article I read is that it’s best to buy gas in the morning because your tank isn’t hot and gas expands when it is hot. When gas is cold it’s more dense and you get more bang for your buck when you buy gas.

Electricity costs are on the rise as well. I think P.G. & E. will increase their costs by 14% over the next 6 to 8 months. Yikes. As if my $200.00 wasn’t enough. So, some things that might help: Unplug electric items when your not using them. Coffe pots, phone chargers, computers, ect. Even if these items aren’t running they still pull a small charge if they are plugeed in. That adss up. Air dry clothes. Thats right, get all old-school country style with airring out your clothes. Do your gym clothes really need to be fluff dried and smell all spring-like? Most electric companies offer tips on how to reduce your bill and offer rewards for cutting back on your bill. Either check out their websites or give your provider a call.

One way my wife and I are trying to save money and finds ways to adjust to rising costs is by not being stuck buying things we can make ourselves. What I mean is we grow most of our produce. We have six chickens (hey, go easy labeling us hillbillies now) and they produce 5-6 eggs a day. We don’t have to buy eggs or egg beaters and those are becoming pretty costly products. We just got the idea this year to raise our own produce. So, we are a little behind. Starting this fall, we plan on preparing to do a full blown produce garden for next year. Even with all the start-up costs and maintenance we have reduced our overall costs by 50%. After seeing how much we have saved my wife wants to raise livestock. We talked to a friend of ours and they said they save up to 50% off their costs by having a rancher raise their meat for them. Now raising organic meat is another story. Thats costly. We learned the hard way on that one.

So, here are some of the ways that have helped us a lot. We would love feed back or even more ideas that could help us. For those who took time out of their lives to read my blog….THANK YOU. Have a good one.

I just purchased the P90X training program. Has anyone heard of this or used it? If so, give me some feed back please. I know some people who have used it and they like it. They became pretty ripped and in real good shape from it. I’m excited to do it because I need to do cardio, but I’m not a big fan of running. And this comes from a guy who used to be a track and cross country runner. Go figure.