P90X Support Group...

Did Legs & Back today...still no success with an unassisted pull up...but I'm happy with my progress! I also went on a short run afterwards...I need all the extra calories I can get on College Football Saturdays.

Didn't have time for ARX as I am going to the University of Houston game today but I will add it to Kenpo tomorrow.

I hope everyone has an awesome Saturday!!!

Go COOGS!!

Ro

Afternoon Team X!

I have a confession to make. I didn't do legs/back yesterday as planned. I was busy most of the day and so planned to get it done in the evening but I was pretty exhausted and fell asleep on the couch. By the time I woke up feeling groggy, it was pretty late and I couldn't bring myself to bring it.

Soooo... Today is workout Sunday. I never have any problems getting them in on Sundays, it's like I'm a workout machine for one day a week! So I was up early(ish) and got my legs/back plus ARX done. Managed 408 out of 349 on the ARX. I also added a 2kg weight to the mason twists. I may up that to a 4.5kg weight and look at adding extra weight to other movements too. Fifer Scissors are the only one I still can't get 25 on! Grrrr... Still, that's the last ARX I have to do for phase 1!

I watched the start of the new season of biggest loser with the fiance (our weekend guilty pleasure!) and headed back to the gym room to do my catchup day on hundred pushup challenge. I've stepped it down to column 2 of the challenge but this is still totally kicking my *kitten*! I'm considering repeating this week as I've struggled all the way through it.

Later on I plan to head back to the gym room AGAIN for my scheduled Kenpo X which will bring me back up to date and ready to start recovery week next week. Ladies and gents, we are OUT of the resistance part of phase 1! Can I get a whoop whoop!?!

I gained another 3 lb yesterday at weigh in taking my total gain to 7lb since reaching goal weight. I'd say it's probably half and half muscle/fat as expected. I plan to gain about another 4 to 6 before cutting and muscle maintenance. As there's no resistance next week however and so nowhere for the mass amounts of protein to go, I'll be dropping my calories down from 2600 to about 2000 for the week which is a maintenance level for me. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing here but seeing the scale move up is nerve racking after it took so much work to get it down in the first place. Still, this is all a journey and even though the scale is moving up, I'm loving the body changes I can see in the mirror!

Whatever you're all doing today, bring it and make it count!

Jay

It would be nice if I actually put the video link in here! hahahahahaha!

Here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzl-_b5tiY

Great video Drew. It's really great to have you posting these every week for a solid round up of the week's progress.

Forgot to mention in my post above by the way. I'm seeing some progress on the pullups!!!! I totalled 13 unassisted today. Most impressively, the first set of reverse grip chinups saw me hitting 5 consecutive unassisted! I've no idea what the breakthrough was but it really feels like I've gotten past a barrier here. Damn shame there's no more pullup action for another week or so now - that's bad timing to make the breakthrough eh...

Cheers

Jay

Hey group, I have been MIA and I apologize. It was an extremely busy and painful weekend for me... Here is the update:

Friday - I am pretty sure I checked in on the group so that I could continue my streak of days logged in *fingers crossed* because aparently I didn't post anything which is totally not like me haha. It was date night with it my boyfriend - a much needed night out just the two of us to celebrate his birthday. Needless to say, we did not get Yoga in that night - getting home past midnight meant there was not enough time to put in 1.5 hours.

Saturday - we woke up, did groceries, cleaned the house a bit, I gave him his birthday gift - he was STOKED!!! Haha, he never caught onto the fact that I was always working the same muscle groups he was while he did P90X at his place haha - I would dumb it down with, oh I did some pushups (chest and back days) some lunges and squats (legs and back) and - used my dumbells and did some curls (arms and shoulders). He was so excited - I have the pull up par, the push up grips, resistance bands, floor mats and the full set of discs. Then he looked at me and was like - wait... you've been doing it this whole time too!!! No wonder you are looking fantastic!!! I looked at him and said "now that you know, and since we skipped Yoga last night - we need to bring it with Chest and Back today and try out some of the new toys!!!" :drinker: Great surprise and awesome gift!!!

Sunday - BASEBALL tournament :noway: almost 5 hours of softball, four huge bruises and a sunburn later I made it home and had nothing left in me to do Kenpo. I got to the sofa and I crashed, got up only to walk the dog for an hour and go to bed! Hahaha! Oh well, I brought it on the diamond (I don't hit far so I make up for it by running FAST - rarely ever out at first even though I can hardly get the ball off the inner diamond - you can only imagine the sprints I was running!)

Today marks day 7 week 3, I think I might bring out the Stretch-X because my body could really use it, that is after I walk my dog and before my hockey game... we will see how many hours I have but I am toatlly pumped for recovery week! Bring it!

Hello everyone! I have also been MIA for a few days. I did log from my phone but it wasn't pretty. I had a family member that needed some TLC on Friday and it turned into a full weekend of too much fun and way to much food. I think I may have gained at least a # but I refuse to get on the scale today. I missed 2 workouts too That is ok though, I am back on the wagon today! Going to bring it as hard as I can, gotta get my rockstar rep back. LOL. Hope everyone has an awsome day!

Nother noob here!! I did day 2 Plyo x today. Was a nice little workout. I finished Insanity last week and i'm looking forward to toning up some of this flab!

Hey all,

Didn't get to write up my post-workout post yesterday but I did get Kenpo X in. I know, I know, I said I was going to do it on Sunday but that'll teach me to write about something before doing it... I missed it! Well, I'm back on track now (although I've essentially skipped all 3 optional X-Stretch days so far which sucks a bit).

Week 4 is here folks. Bring it through recovery week and we'll be into phase 2 before we know it! You're all doing great, keep it up!

By the way, if anyone missed it earlier, today is the last day of voting in my photo contest. If you want to help me out, please go to http://hpstm.tc/7ky9 and click the facebook 'like' button at the bottom. You can also say http://hpstm.tc/7ky9 and #hipstamatic in one tweet if you're a twitter user to give me a vote. Number 20 and (hopefully) climbing!

Cheers

Jay

Have some catching up to do. Did cardio yesterday, felt I didn't do so well. Taking 2 days off threw my game off. Yoga tonight, we will hope I can keep up.

Ro- I am doing lean to and recovery week to me is just as challenging, I recommend just staying on schedule.

Hope everyone has a great workout today!

Hey everyone.

Well my one on one with Tony 'Fountain of Youth' dvd arrived yesterday after taking a helluva long time to get here (Getting something from Beachbody to the UK is ugh! Don't ask!) so I decided today I'd check that one out instead of the regular Yoga X.

If you've not tried it, I'd recommend it. It includes most of the fundamentals of the Yoga X workout with some bonus moves thrown in. It's only 45 minutes long but it certainly ain't no walk in the park! This is definitely more advanced stuff than Yoga X. Also, you really need to have done Yoga X a few times to be able to keep up as there's very little explanations about how to do moves that we've seen before. A lot of it you have to rely on audio cues. It also moves along quite quickly so you need to either keep up or be able to drop easily back in if you fall behind.

Al in all, a good workout. I think I sweated more today in 45 minutes than I did on Friday in 92 minutes of Yoga X. I think I'll stick to Yoga X mostly for the program but it's good to have another option to supplement.

Some of the other one on ones look great and I'd love to check em all out but I'm not messing around with the shipping again to get them one at a time. I may save up to get the whole volume box set in one.

I also started off with 100 pushup challenge today. I'm repeating week 4 as it pretty much thrashed me last week. I got 18, 22, 16, 16, 25. I've switched it out to Tues/Thurs/Sat to fit in better with P90x.

Ok, I'm going to enjoy my extra 40 minutes or so!

Jay

Hey everyone!

It's Day 30 for me!!! 1/3 of the way done with this round and feeling great!

Did Plyo this morning, and it was a good one. DRIPPING with sweat LOL...

Hope you're all doing great and rocking your workouts!

BRING IT!


-Mike

Hey team!

Did Back & Biceps today for the first time..... WOW. It was pretty brutal. It kicked my *kitten*, and I bonked pretty hard in the second half.

I don't know if it was a lack of quality sleep (woke up several times during the night) or overall lack of energy, or just the brutality of the workout that caused me to bonk, but it took everything I had to finish as strong as I could AND complete Ab Ripper too.

I may have to start drinking a quick cup of coffee before my workouts again. I had stopped because I think I was drinking too much coffee overall... Maybe I'll add the pre-workout coffee, and cut out the one I drink at breakfast.

Anyway, this workout absolutely slams the biceps. Curl after curl after curl after curl...you get the picture. Oh and lots of rows, lawn mowers, and PULL UPS. Man, I was wasted at the end. Hope to have a stronger showing next week!!!

Have a great day everyone! BRING IT!!!

-Mike

Hey everyone. It's been one busy week and past week but I have got in all my routines but not have had time to check the posts. I was excited about the recovery week until I saw that Yoga is thrown in there twice. I love to yoga at the studio but the P90x yoga is not so fun. I have to push really hard to get through it. I haven't seen or done all of the workouts yet but I personally believe this is the weakest routine. It could have be done alot better. I got on the scale and still around the same weight as before but I keep losing inches. Maybe taking in to much protein, not sure. I would like to drop some lbs before this is over. At least were 25% done!!!!! Good job everyone

Hello everyone! I thought I was the only one subjecting myself to the torture by Tony Horton, but I guess he's addictive in his mantra "BRING IT!"

So I'm on Week 7, today I do Back and Biceps but Plyo kicked my butt yesterday and my knees are questionable at best. I'll still try to plug through when I work out this evening.

So the halfway mark is here..day 45 of the 90 day journey to change myself and honestly I don't see much change on the scale. Actually I've gained weight. My husband assures me its muscle, however, I was over 250 pounds when I started, fresh off an illness and needing a serious jolt to get my body to respond. Enter P90X. My husband miraculously lost 50 pounds in 3 months! I thought the same would be true for me. Not the case. I've lost about 3 inches in my chest, legs and hips and a inch or two in my waist and arms, but I'm still obese so the cardio that is involved in P90X isn't making the pounds come off at all.

Mind you I'm pretty sure I'm not eating enough on most days as I'm not following the nutrition plan (it calls for me to eat over 3,000 calories based on their formula and that will never happen) but I would think less in, more off. Not for me. I've been teetering between a few pounds lost to gaining those few pounds back.

But I will keep pushing play hoping against hope that the scale will catch up with the effort I put out.

Thanks for reading. Everyone BRING IT!

Hey all,

Yay for the all call - hopefully we get some of the less frequent posters checking in and letting us know how they are all doing - we had such a boom in August and then at the beginning of September we really don't want our group fading. Not only because we are THE coolest but also because we want everyone to be successful - to everyone who is bashful because they haven't logged on everyday or because they haven't been able to push play everyday. Remember that we are not here to judge just support! There have been days where I missed pushing play, days I didn't eat well (heck, still haven't followed the meal plan though I have been meaning to) and days where I didn't push myself as hard as possible, what is important is that you are trying your best and ... forgetting the rest. Let us know how you are doing!!

Check in at the 25% mark, missed yoga last night because my neighbor invited me to her kickboxing class - she had a visitor pass to bring a friend for free and asked if I wanted to go. I never pass up an opportunity to get in a different workout for free and... I got my butt handed to me! It was a great workout - I dominated in Cardio - we did laps of the building - roughly 400m - one steady one as fast as possible. Because I like to run and can run relatively fast I had to do 5 laps while the "regulars" who were not as fast ran 4 - sigh of well props to fitness (thank you Plyo and Kenpo) and was able to do all the push-ups unassisted - almost 50 with mini breaks (Chest and Back you rock!). Then we did bag and partner work which was amaxing - I am thinking for adding weighted gloves to my Kenpo workouts to feel the same burn - that and am going to start adding my boyfriends punching bag to my routine. Then we did a circuit based on shoulders and chest and it was killer but awesome - 10 lb weights for shoulder press, band work, pull-ups, hugging this stupid water filled yoga ball and push and pulls with a medicine ball. LOVED it - got my bott kicked and looking forward to Core Synergistics!!

Bring it!

25%! One quarter done! Just gotta do it all 3 more times and we're there! I also realised today that this time next week will be day 30!

Now then, Core Synergistics. I'm gonna break the mould here and tell you that this routine really pissed me off. My home gym room is pretty frickin sweet with the 6ft projector screen and all but it just aint big enough for me to be rolling around with my arms and legs extended! I'm about 6 foot so with my arms up, I'd need about 8 foot square of clear space to be able to do this properly. Maybe if I cleared the room out and devoted it to just gym, but it also functions as the guest bedroom so the Futon takes up a chunk of it - they don't make bedrooms that big in the UK! I also work out in bare feet which is really crap if I'm jumping around on the yoga mat as my feet stick to it so I ended up lobbing the mat across the room at one point.

I guess I was pretty frustrated that I couldn't keep up as I had no idea what was going on. Superman banana? LISTEN TO ME TONY HORTON! I CAN'T ROLL OVER THAT FAST IN MY LIMITED SPACE!!! He was calling out to change before I'd even managed to make the previous switch so it didn't feel like I was getting much of a core workout as I was spending half the time flailing around like a prize tool trying to get myself over into the next one.

It was possibly also something to do with the fact that today was massively hot over here in the UK - in September, I know! Our summer wasn't this warm! - and so I have a face full of sweat and carpet fluff...

I think a clean up and rearrange of the gym room might help me out a bit for this one. At least next time (Saturday) I'll know what to expect.

Ok, rant over. I'm sure I'll enjoy it more next time but I have to say that just for today, that wasn't a greatly pleasant experience...

Looking forward to good old Kenpo tomorrow. By the way, anyone else notice that Wesley Idol looks kinda flabby? lol!

Make it work for you guys, we're making solid progress here!

Jay