Today is Sunday. Normally, this is my "day of rest" for the P90X routine. But yesterday was CRAZY BUSY HECTIC, so I did not have a chance to get in my kenpo routine. Expecting this, I budgeted an hour for Sunday morning to get my workout in.
wow! I do love this kenpo workout.
First things first, my diet has been okay. As I have explained before, I'm not giving up my normal food, just working to reduce the portions. Except for pop. I've given this up cold turkey, two weeks and counting. But this weekend we were out and about, and I may have enjoyed a bit too much of the good food. Friday it was wings and beer. Saturday it was Chipotle. Last night (dinner) it was Sweet Tomatoes, which is an acceptable choice, but since it's an all-you-can-eat buffet, I totally ate TOO MUCH salad and soup. Uggg.
So I start the week off at: 187lbs. :-( I seem to be stuck here at this number. Sure, I know I'm putting on muscle (I can FEEL it), but still, I'd like to trim off a few dress sizes and get my weight down to a steady low 180's number. Perhaps this week??
Today was fun. Jade decided to workout with me. Keep in mind that she is a super-soccer stud and can run laps around her opponents. So it was nice to see her winded and have to take extra breaks while I pushed thru the routine. But I was proud of her....she really worked it hard, sweating a ton and drinking 2 glasses of water.
I do like this kenpo routine. I'm starting to develop an infinity for a few of my favorite routines. Just not sure which ones they are quite yet. But I definitely like this P90X workout system. Two weeks down, and I feel quite accomplished.
I have one more week on this system, then week 4 is a bunch of yoga and stretching routines. Keep on rockin' and rockin!
Have a great week!
a.Z.
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Showing posts with label P90X - Week 2. Show all posts
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Day 10 - Legs, Back, and Abs
First things first -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABE!
My young bride turned 27 today. Yea! (She was 12 when we got married). A big SHOUT OUT to her, and I hope that her day is perfect.
So, I haven't done my exercise yet. Truth is, I'm sitting here with my black coffee catching up on my blog statistics. Today is the Legs and Back and Abs routine. Quite possibly my LEAST FAVORITE out of the six. It's the pullups that do me in. I'm excited to use my newly installed pullup bar, tho.
Usually this would be my Friday routine, but today we're going up to Breck to celebrate Kat's bday. So I switched routines, thinking that the Yoga workout would be easier to do in the condo.
I'm not sure that I'll be able to post an update for you regarding my workout, because of the time constraint. As soon as the kids get home, we're piling into the Durango to head for Summit County. But let's just assume that there was a lot of huffing and puffing, sweating and swearing (not really!) And that I lost 2lbs of water, but recovered with 3lbs of food. My diet was fine, nothing major. We are grilling sliders tonight, which I think is better than burgers, or brats, or steaks, because they are smaller and take longer to eat, so thus I will eat less. Make sense? I'm still hovering at a steady 186lbs. I haven't seen 184lbs since last week, and sometime I still tip the scale at 190lbs. But if I were at the DMV today and they asked my weight, I would answer with confidence: 186lbs.
Okay, onto the real meat of today's blog: my audience. I'm averaging 18 visits a day. Yea! That's about 17 more than I expected. So if you are peeking into my life and enjoying the read, then I thank you, because I appreciate the audience.
But what I can't understand is this: who are you??
According to the blog stats, I have had visitors -- THIS WEEK -- from: Singapore (6 hits), Nigeria (2 hits), Canada (2 hits, Ken and Sus??), Slovenia (2), Ukraine (2), Columbia (1), and Denmark (1). This I find both fascinating and STRANGE!!
Who is viewing this post from Singapore?? And Nigeria?? And Slovenia, or Ukraine, or Columbia, or Denmark??
I think I'm kind of a boring guy. So I find it immensely intriguing that I would have an audience from various parts of the world. Now, I get it -- these viewers may be random persons that have stumbled across my blogspot. But I've got to think that some of these folk know me, and I'm just not aware of which country they are viewing the pages from.
So do me a favor. If you are viewing my blogspot from OUTSIDE of the US, and you know me personally, let me know who you are and where you're viewing from by leaving a quick message at the end of this post. For example, "Hey Aaron, love your post. Good luck with the P90X stuff. Ken, from c-A n-A d-A" (that's my favorite Canada joke, if you haven't heard it before).
Or if you are the executor of the will for my long lost Uncle from Nigeria, then rest assured, the check is in the mail and I can't wait to inherit my fortune -- yee-hah!
:-)
a.Z.
p.s. I had meant to publish this picture yesterday. This is a perfect example of what I am trying to AVOID. I can't believe that some people would actually choose this for their life??
I mean really......a poodle??
My young bride turned 27 today. Yea! (She was 12 when we got married). A big SHOUT OUT to her, and I hope that her day is perfect.
So, I haven't done my exercise yet. Truth is, I'm sitting here with my black coffee catching up on my blog statistics. Today is the Legs and Back and Abs routine. Quite possibly my LEAST FAVORITE out of the six. It's the pullups that do me in. I'm excited to use my newly installed pullup bar, tho.
Usually this would be my Friday routine, but today we're going up to Breck to celebrate Kat's bday. So I switched routines, thinking that the Yoga workout would be easier to do in the condo.
I'm not sure that I'll be able to post an update for you regarding my workout, because of the time constraint. As soon as the kids get home, we're piling into the Durango to head for Summit County. But let's just assume that there was a lot of huffing and puffing, sweating and swearing (not really!) And that I lost 2lbs of water, but recovered with 3lbs of food. My diet was fine, nothing major. We are grilling sliders tonight, which I think is better than burgers, or brats, or steaks, because they are smaller and take longer to eat, so thus I will eat less. Make sense? I'm still hovering at a steady 186lbs. I haven't seen 184lbs since last week, and sometime I still tip the scale at 190lbs. But if I were at the DMV today and they asked my weight, I would answer with confidence: 186lbs.
Okay, onto the real meat of today's blog: my audience. I'm averaging 18 visits a day. Yea! That's about 17 more than I expected. So if you are peeking into my life and enjoying the read, then I thank you, because I appreciate the audience.
But what I can't understand is this: who are you??
According to the blog stats, I have had visitors -- THIS WEEK -- from: Singapore (6 hits), Nigeria (2 hits), Canada (2 hits, Ken and Sus??), Slovenia (2), Ukraine (2), Columbia (1), and Denmark (1). This I find both fascinating and STRANGE!!
Who is viewing this post from Singapore?? And Nigeria?? And Slovenia, or Ukraine, or Columbia, or Denmark??
I think I'm kind of a boring guy. So I find it immensely intriguing that I would have an audience from various parts of the world. Now, I get it -- these viewers may be random persons that have stumbled across my blogspot. But I've got to think that some of these folk know me, and I'm just not aware of which country they are viewing the pages from.
So do me a favor. If you are viewing my blogspot from OUTSIDE of the US, and you know me personally, let me know who you are and where you're viewing from by leaving a quick message at the end of this post. For example, "Hey Aaron, love your post. Good luck with the P90X stuff. Ken, from c-A n-A d-A" (that's my favorite Canada joke, if you haven't heard it before).
Or if you are the executor of the will for my long lost Uncle from Nigeria, then rest assured, the check is in the mail and I can't wait to inherit my fortune -- yee-hah!
:-)
a.Z.
p.s. I had meant to publish this picture yesterday. This is a perfect example of what I am trying to AVOID. I can't believe that some people would actually choose this for their life??
I mean really......a poodle??
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Day 9 - Arms, Shoulders, and ABs
Wow, I'm very much amazed that I've made it to week #2. Actually, this week is so crazy and hectic (can you hear a re-occurring theme yet?), that I've had to switch the routines up.
We're going up to Breckenridge on Thursday to celebrate my bride's 28th b-day. We'll be there through Friday night, which is totally going to screw up my workouts. BUT, I have a plan. If I do the intense pullup routine (legs, back, abs) on Thursday instead of Friday, then I can take our mini laptop up to the mountains and do the Yoga routine while the kids frolic in the pool on Friday. THEN, I think I'll use my "day of rest" for Saturday, since it's a terrible, terrible hectic day, and do my Kenpo on Sunday, which is much less crazy hectic. Phew! I get exhausted just typing about it all! Jeesh.
So I was concerned yesterday about when I was going to be able to get my workout in. I decided to sneak home for the lunch period and work on the first part (1-hr.) Normally, my Tuesday workout would be the cardio (according to the lean program), but because of the crazy switch up on Thurs/Fri/Sat, I decided to get the iron-pumping upper body routine in today, and save the cardio for tomorrow (wed.). Is this all making sense? Sorry, I'm just kinda typing what comes to thought. Like mumbling my thoughts!
So nothing special to report. I did great with my reps. I use my 10lb. weights for everything. Sometimes I think I'm under doing it, especially when the guys on the movie are using 25lbs, and the girls are using the 10lbs. But I just remind myself that I DO NOT WANT TO BULK UP! I'm not going for beefcake here. Rather, I want good, hardened lean muscles. So I go for reps. In fact, when they do 12-16 reps, I'm pushing out 24+. So that makes me feel worthwhile.
Once I had finished my iron-pumping routine, I realized that I could squeeze in my ab workout, but I'd be a few minutes late getting back from lunch. No biggy. So I started. Well, after I got to the crunchy frogs (3rd routine), I realized I didn't quite have it in me to finish the intense ab workout. So I decided to wait.
Which worked out very well for me.
We love to watch the biggest loser as a family. My primary complaint, however, is their need to take a 1-hr. show and draw it out into a 2-hr. episode. It gets so old watching the same clip, over and over, before the commercial, and after the commercial. It's a joke! And the weigh ins are terrible. 40 minutes to narrow down who lost the least amount. Since we no longer have Tevo, it's quite unbearable. But still, we love the show.
Well, last night I pitched an idea to the family. "Would you like to do the AB routine with me during the weigh-ins?" Everyone was on board, except for Kim, who desperately wanted to go to bed :-) So Jade, and Kaleb, and Kathy and I all did the 15-minute ab routine while NBC bored the audience with the same 'ol recipe for weigh-ins. By the time we were done, they were down to the final 2 weigh-ins, which is all that really matters.
I was proud of my family. They did GREAT! Jade is a super athlete, and the AB routine kicked her butt! Kaleb, who is nothing but skin and bones, breezed through the routines with ease. Kathy, who tends to complain about the extra five pounds she has been hiding on her waist for the past half-dozen years, FLEW through the routine. She could have been, dare I say, an INSTRUCTOR! I was very, very impressed with the strength and endurance she displayed throughout this intense 15-min. routine.
It was fun. I'm glad everyone joined me. It made us feel united, and I think we'll continue this Tuesday night tradition.
This a.m. I weighed in at a solid 186.5lbs. I'm okay with this for now.
My tummy is RUMBLING!! It's hungry, but it's a false hunger. I'm still working on reducing the size of the stomach so that my hunger pains can be reduced. Lots of water, and carrot sticks, and almonds for snacks.
Today's meals have looked like such:
Breakfast: coffee (black, always!), and a banana
Mid-morning snack: 8 yogurt covered pretzels and 6 ginger snap cookies (yum! yum!)
Lunch: Subway (I walk there, about 1/2 mile ea. way). spicy Italian with Swiss cheese, lots of veggies, oil and a lot of vinegar. And half of a powerade for a drink.
Afternoon snack: handful of cinn. bears and an apple.
So what do I miss the most? Well, I really miss beer. Not that I've given it up, but I just don't think that it fits into my diet plan right now. It's more for the Sunday "day of rest" timeslot. Also, I miss portions. I miss being able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want. When I did this, I weighed 190lbs. But I had too much fat. I'm not seeing the trade off yet. I feel like I'm hungry WAY MORE, and I've only lost 3lbs. That's hard to deal with. But I'd like to believe that I'm replacing the fat with muscle. Oh, and sugar. I really miss sugar. I miss eating peanut butter cups, and sweet tarts, and a 5lb. bag of cinn. bears, and Diet Dr. Pepper, and Slushies! Not that I can't enjoy these (I had one peanut butter cup last night), but the trade off isn't worth it for me right now.
Keep on rockin'! Right?
We're going up to Breckenridge on Thursday to celebrate my bride's 28th b-day. We'll be there through Friday night, which is totally going to screw up my workouts. BUT, I have a plan. If I do the intense pullup routine (legs, back, abs) on Thursday instead of Friday, then I can take our mini laptop up to the mountains and do the Yoga routine while the kids frolic in the pool on Friday. THEN, I think I'll use my "day of rest" for Saturday, since it's a terrible, terrible hectic day, and do my Kenpo on Sunday, which is much less crazy hectic. Phew! I get exhausted just typing about it all! Jeesh.
So I was concerned yesterday about when I was going to be able to get my workout in. I decided to sneak home for the lunch period and work on the first part (1-hr.) Normally, my Tuesday workout would be the cardio (according to the lean program), but because of the crazy switch up on Thurs/Fri/Sat, I decided to get the iron-pumping upper body routine in today, and save the cardio for tomorrow (wed.). Is this all making sense? Sorry, I'm just kinda typing what comes to thought. Like mumbling my thoughts!
So nothing special to report. I did great with my reps. I use my 10lb. weights for everything. Sometimes I think I'm under doing it, especially when the guys on the movie are using 25lbs, and the girls are using the 10lbs. But I just remind myself that I DO NOT WANT TO BULK UP! I'm not going for beefcake here. Rather, I want good, hardened lean muscles. So I go for reps. In fact, when they do 12-16 reps, I'm pushing out 24+. So that makes me feel worthwhile.
Once I had finished my iron-pumping routine, I realized that I could squeeze in my ab workout, but I'd be a few minutes late getting back from lunch. No biggy. So I started. Well, after I got to the crunchy frogs (3rd routine), I realized I didn't quite have it in me to finish the intense ab workout. So I decided to wait.
Which worked out very well for me.
We love to watch the biggest loser as a family. My primary complaint, however, is their need to take a 1-hr. show and draw it out into a 2-hr. episode. It gets so old watching the same clip, over and over, before the commercial, and after the commercial. It's a joke! And the weigh ins are terrible. 40 minutes to narrow down who lost the least amount. Since we no longer have Tevo, it's quite unbearable. But still, we love the show.
Well, last night I pitched an idea to the family. "Would you like to do the AB routine with me during the weigh-ins?" Everyone was on board, except for Kim, who desperately wanted to go to bed :-) So Jade, and Kaleb, and Kathy and I all did the 15-minute ab routine while NBC bored the audience with the same 'ol recipe for weigh-ins. By the time we were done, they were down to the final 2 weigh-ins, which is all that really matters.
I was proud of my family. They did GREAT! Jade is a super athlete, and the AB routine kicked her butt! Kaleb, who is nothing but skin and bones, breezed through the routines with ease. Kathy, who tends to complain about the extra five pounds she has been hiding on her waist for the past half-dozen years, FLEW through the routine. She could have been, dare I say, an INSTRUCTOR! I was very, very impressed with the strength and endurance she displayed throughout this intense 15-min. routine.
It was fun. I'm glad everyone joined me. It made us feel united, and I think we'll continue this Tuesday night tradition.
This a.m. I weighed in at a solid 186.5lbs. I'm okay with this for now.
My tummy is RUMBLING!! It's hungry, but it's a false hunger. I'm still working on reducing the size of the stomach so that my hunger pains can be reduced. Lots of water, and carrot sticks, and almonds for snacks.
Today's meals have looked like such:
Breakfast: coffee (black, always!), and a banana
Mid-morning snack: 8 yogurt covered pretzels and 6 ginger snap cookies (yum! yum!)
Lunch: Subway (I walk there, about 1/2 mile ea. way). spicy Italian with Swiss cheese, lots of veggies, oil and a lot of vinegar. And half of a powerade for a drink.
Afternoon snack: handful of cinn. bears and an apple.
So what do I miss the most? Well, I really miss beer. Not that I've given it up, but I just don't think that it fits into my diet plan right now. It's more for the Sunday "day of rest" timeslot. Also, I miss portions. I miss being able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want. When I did this, I weighed 190lbs. But I had too much fat. I'm not seeing the trade off yet. I feel like I'm hungry WAY MORE, and I've only lost 3lbs. That's hard to deal with. But I'd like to believe that I'm replacing the fat with muscle. Oh, and sugar. I really miss sugar. I miss eating peanut butter cups, and sweet tarts, and a 5lb. bag of cinn. bears, and Diet Dr. Pepper, and Slushies! Not that I can't enjoy these (I had one peanut butter cup last night), but the trade off isn't worth it for me right now.
Keep on rockin'! Right?
Day 8 - Core Synergetics
Okay, okay...sorry for the late posting (for all 4 of you out there that are actually reading this). I guess I got caught up on my "day of rest". We had a lot of stuff to get done, and in the traditional Zimmer family MO, I needed my Monday to recuperate from the CRAZY 3-day weekend. But wait, you didn't have a 3-day weekend? Well, don't fret. In case you didn't know, I've been on a 4-day work week since Oct. of '09. While this may seem like a piece of paradise, it's actually...yeah, I guess that's pretty nice, actually. It comes with a 20% paycut, but hey, I LOVE hanging out with my little girl on Fridays!
But I digress....
Where was I? Oh yeah, the P90X system! So I made it thru one week of my new work out regime. (Yeah! Pat on the back...) It definitely had it's ups and downs, but for the most part I am excited about the changes. After about 36 hours of being on the system, I weighed myself and was happy to see the scale tip at 184lbs. BUT - my joy was short-lived. I seem to be hitting that terrible "week 2" that you always see on the Biggest Loser. My weight is fluctuating quite a bit. Sometimes I'm back at the 190lb. mark, and other times I'm down to 185lb. But I seem to be at a steady 187lbs. :-( But having watched the Biggest Loser for 11 seasons, I realize that there is a process in which we begin to trade our unwanted fat cells for the much more desirable lean muscle mass. And muscle adds weight!
The nice thing is that I know this is true, because I'm already able to exceed my initial week's workout as far as pushups, and situps, and pullups, and weight reps that I am able to do. Plus, Kathy says my pipes seem bigger. Yeah, right! "Which way to the beach?"
So Monday was another round of Core Synergetics. Great routine, and I did much better this week than last. Still pouring out the sweat, which is a great sensation.
My diet is going well. I'm beginning to wean myself from the sugary snacks that are stored in my drawer at work. Not as many cinn. bears and cookies to tempt me. Actually I've turned my sweet tooth's attention to yogurt covered pretzels (about 8 per snack), and I have a banana for breakfast, greek yogurt for a mid-day snack, and apple for the 2:30pm munchies window, and sugar free gum. Lunch is either Subway or a salad. It's helping me maintain a good, solid 187lb. reading on the scale.
Whenever I do a workout that requires me to be on all fours and arching my back, I can see why I'm doing this. There is a terrible layer, about 2" of fat that hangs down from my belly. Sure, I can hide this for the most part when I'm upright. But there's no hiding it when gravity is at work. I know I can get rid of this....just got to melt the fat away so that the abs of steel can be on display!
p.s. Wait until you hear about my story about Kathy's abs of steel! It's next....
But I digress....
Where was I? Oh yeah, the P90X system! So I made it thru one week of my new work out regime. (Yeah! Pat on the back...) It definitely had it's ups and downs, but for the most part I am excited about the changes. After about 36 hours of being on the system, I weighed myself and was happy to see the scale tip at 184lbs. BUT - my joy was short-lived. I seem to be hitting that terrible "week 2" that you always see on the Biggest Loser. My weight is fluctuating quite a bit. Sometimes I'm back at the 190lb. mark, and other times I'm down to 185lb. But I seem to be at a steady 187lbs. :-( But having watched the Biggest Loser for 11 seasons, I realize that there is a process in which we begin to trade our unwanted fat cells for the much more desirable lean muscle mass. And muscle adds weight!
The nice thing is that I know this is true, because I'm already able to exceed my initial week's workout as far as pushups, and situps, and pullups, and weight reps that I am able to do. Plus, Kathy says my pipes seem bigger. Yeah, right! "Which way to the beach?"
So Monday was another round of Core Synergetics. Great routine, and I did much better this week than last. Still pouring out the sweat, which is a great sensation.
My diet is going well. I'm beginning to wean myself from the sugary snacks that are stored in my drawer at work. Not as many cinn. bears and cookies to tempt me. Actually I've turned my sweet tooth's attention to yogurt covered pretzels (about 8 per snack), and I have a banana for breakfast, greek yogurt for a mid-day snack, and apple for the 2:30pm munchies window, and sugar free gum. Lunch is either Subway or a salad. It's helping me maintain a good, solid 187lb. reading on the scale.
Whenever I do a workout that requires me to be on all fours and arching my back, I can see why I'm doing this. There is a terrible layer, about 2" of fat that hangs down from my belly. Sure, I can hide this for the most part when I'm upright. But there's no hiding it when gravity is at work. I know I can get rid of this....just got to melt the fat away so that the abs of steel can be on display!
p.s. Wait until you hear about my story about Kathy's abs of steel! It's next....
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