happy birthday to your little girl

Last p90x workout for me is today with yoga X. Next week will do light workouts before a round of insanity starts.

I started week 10 of P90X yesterday. I have to say, I'm getting pretty bored. I am going to stick it out for the next few weeks to complete the program.

I'm going to order Insanity next week so I can start it a week after completing P90X. I am scheduled to finish P90X on May 4. I want to start Insanity on May 13.

so i've taken 2 weeks off of beach body after i finished p90x... because i just needed a little break and i wanted to get my bench press a little closer to where it used to be.

some things that are pissing me off:

- i go to Planet Fitness. They have one and only one flat bench press. Serriously, i can't believe that. They had two when i signed up then they removed one for more machines. Only a few days left of my second week and guess how many times i've gotten access to the bench press? a big fat 0!

- I'm using MFP to calculate how many calories i eat and trying to eat to maintain my current weight. I set the goal at maintaining weight, and i'm logging my workouts and eating back my calories. This still has me eating LESS calories then i was eating on p90x to lose weight lol. p90x i was eating between 2100-2400. this has me at 2030 plus workout calories.

- hasn't been that much of a break because the jumprope workouts have been taring up my calves and i funked up my ankle a little. its acutally a good prep for Asylum... if my ankle holds up.

thanks for listening to me ***** lol

well, you can get a $10 a month membership. but i used to tan a lot so i sprung for the $20 one. i don't tan much anymore (which is a very good thing lol) but i stick with the $20 because the front desk tells me i need that if i want to go to any planet fitness i want (even though gym members seem to claim otherwise). and thier everywhere. when i went to orlando on vacation there was like 3 different ones close by that i could go to. Thats when i learned your only allowed to visit PFs out of state so many times in one month, or week, can't remember, which they didn't tell me when i signed up, but whatever the limit was seemed pretty adaquet anyway.

I even end up going to different locations locally if i am really busy and will happy to be close to one that i don't typically go to. so its helped out having the more expensive membership.

But i only go to lift and its almost pointless to go to PF for that lol.

this has inspired me to beef up my home gym... maybe even start a blog and review home fitness products. there is so much stuff out there but its made expensive. I even saw some equipment i couldn't begin to guess how to use lol.

this is a great resource:
http://www.crossfit.com/journal/library/cfjissue1_Sep02.pdf

starting from the ground up i wanted to get some good flooring. I've been doing insanity and asylum on a carpet on a concrete floor. i also sometimes use another piece of carpet, and or my beach body 'jump mat'. these multiple layers make for slightly different elevations that have made me almost roll my ankle a few times.

its not cutting it anymore so i'm buying those gigantic rubber floor mats you often see at the gym. they are available on fitness websites, 4X6 and 3/4'' thick. they go for 75 bucks! plus shipping. I was worried about getting interlocking ones and i was going to spend a fortune until i realized the mats themselves are almost 100 lbs!!! thats not going to slide anywhere.

but at the advice of the article above i checked out local farm supply shops. they have horse mats that are made of recycled rubber (just like the finess ones), claim to be antibacteria and odor free and are the exact demensions of the ones on the fitness website. only they cost $34 and i dont have to ship them!!

i'm excited to start asylum next week with a brand new work out area!!!

Really, when i first read that article months ago, i thought flooring was the last thing i wanted to spend my money on. now it seems so very vital lol. its werid how pumped i am about this and happy i could do it a relatively cheap way.

i'm going to get 4 mats and set them up like a diamond. maybe i'll post a pic when i get it together. hope everyone else is excited to train!

set up the mats over the weekend, i'll post up a pic soon.

a little note... apparently not all mats are created equal! the first ones i bought were 100% unacceptable. On the ride home, the car filled with a noxious chemical odor that made me oober sick to my stomach. There was no way i could deal with it. maybe they would have aired out, maybe they wouldn't.

I went to a different shop the next day and found better ones. they were 4 bucks more a piece, but they smelled like rubber. no different then putting a brand new sneaker up to your nose and taking a whiff lol. maybe not a pleasant smell, but also not offensive and i mean its rubber, its going to smell like rubber lol. Plus the ones i ended up buying said "all purpose, for horses, pets, garages and fitness rooms" right on the packaging so that made me feel better. I think i've acutally seen these mats on gym floors too. they have a slight texturing on the top (where as the ones i returned were perfectly smooth) which is going to make a big difference once i start sweeting all over it.

They also had 1/2'' matting that was half the price of the 3/4'' matting. if your not going to be doing olympic style lifts where your going to be dropping the weight on the ground you could probably get away with that. and if you not lifting at all and your working out on carpet then you don't even need mats (as i'm sure everyone knows lol).

That looks awesome. I workout in my living room but maybe i could get small mats to roll out then put away when I am done. Right now I just have a yoga mat