P90X Program Day 3 Disaster

Today has been a bit of a disaster.

Apart from my body aching from jumping yesterday I have come down with something. My neck hurts, hurts to swallow and no energy. I will be off to the doctors tomorrow morning for anti-biotics.

I think thins means I am going to have to restart the program.

I guess the silver lining is the diet part has been easy - hardly eaten anything today.

I was meant to be doing Shoulders and Arms today - but reading the book almost all the excersizes need bands or dumb bells.

P90X Program Day 2

Last night I did Ab Ripper and this morning I did Plyometrics.

Plyometrics is basically 1 hour of jumping up and down lots.

But each excersize is different so it's fun as routines go.

And as ever the instructor dude doesn't stop talking which helps keep you going.

The thing I loved most about this one was they had a guy with one leg doing it.

I kid you not. I thought the instructor was joking when he said one of the backing group would do it on one leg, and then I realised one of his legs was plastic.

Anyway the dude with one leg kicked arse. The only thing he couldn't do was hop on his plastic leg - so he didn't get to switch legs on the hopping bit. So the whole way through I'm thinking christ if the guy with one leg can do it I need to "Bring It" as the instructor says.

I was dripping sweat and my shirt is saturated. I didn't think I could keep going with 30 mins left to go but made it through.

Diet is still going to be a night mare for the week while I am at work. I'm going to try and prepare food for tommorrow today and take it a day at a time. I'm going to have to try and eat dinner on the way home. So cold dinner eating on the train - Mental.

P90X Program Day 1

So I'm sticking to my diet - but it's a bit weird.

I have a list of categories and units I have to eat. Eg 1 Carb and 2 Condiments and 5 Vegetables and 1 Fruit.

I then have a list of things in the categories and have to stick to the things each day.

It means you have to plan out what you are going to eat each day - not something I am used to. And it is really time consuming.

So today I have eaten:

2 slices of bread, 2 tbls of jam, 1 glass of milk.

1 yoghurt

1 apple

2 cups of peas and a piece of fish

1 yoghurt

3 cups of peas and 2 pieces of fish

5 cups of water.

So weird writing down what you eat - I've turned in to a nut job.

Any way I have no idea how I am going to cope in the centre of London and commuting.

I'm going to just plough on and hopefully it will be easier.

Second part is the work outs.

The first was back and chest and mainly push up variations and pull ups. I don't have the dumb bells needed or the pull up bar so could only do the push ups. They are way hard. I hate push ups. I did my best but after the 5th round of push ups I was struggling to do 5. Any way the guy on the video is really motivating. I'm about to do the Ab exercise video now.

P90X Program Intro

So while I was in the US I noticed the adverts are either for fast food or fast buster pills and fitness programs.

I saw an advert for P90X and thought why not give it a go while Gab is away.

I bought the pack on Amazon and it comes with 13 DVDs, a guide, a diet book and wall planner.

There are same problems:

1. Obviously a 90 day program and Gabs only away for 45 days.

2. The diet/nutrition side is not optional. Not a problem except:

You have to eat regularly through the day. Dinner has to be at least 3 hours before you go to bed.

Well I commute and unless I go to bed at midnight I can't cook the suggested food.

I'm wondering if I can eat dinner on the train home every night and prepare my lunch and dinner and mid snacks for the next day every day.

3. I have just finished the first DVD. Mainly variations on push ups but you also need dumb bells or resistance bands and a pull up bar.

I am 6ft tall and 180 lbs at the start and am quite flabby around the tummy. Lets see how I get on.

How to memorise a pack of cards

Today is my first day of learning to memorise a pack of cards.

I took a pack of cards with me in to work on the train and tried to memorise as many cards as I could - just the numbers not the suits.

I got to 26 cards. It took about 40 minutes

I used the method where you think of a journey and memorable places along the journey and put a card number in each place.

My biggest problem was that I got to 24 places on my chosen journey and then ran out of places. I tried places on the way home but it's a return trip and I couldn't put multiple numbers in one place - my brain couldn't do it.

So my next tasks are:

1. To find more places on the route.

2. To memorise faster.

3. To add in the suit.

My first Blog

I have entered the blogosphere.

I want to use this to capture my projects.