(Round 2) Day 42: Cardio

Woke up for some morning tennis rather than biking. Really hot day, figured if we were going to play tennis it had to be at 10am, not 5pm after a sun-draining day on the beach.

So an hour and a half later, in 90 degree weather, and I had completed my workout before noon.

Didn't get around to abs or my chest, shoukders and arms workout today. Again, vacation's been a slightly different schedule.

Diet today wasn't nearly as heavy as day 41. Cottage cheese and peach for breakfast. Salad with turkey, ham and cheese mixed in for lunch, steamed seafood for dinner. Downfall was the boardwalk ice cream to end the night, but at least I'm honest.

More cardio tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 41: Cardio, Bike

As I said, Sundays are generally off-days. However, I'm away on vacation so things are going to run a little differently.

Woke up at 8am for a bike ride with my dad. We just head north on our bikes until we realize that however far we ride up, we're going to have to repeat on the ride home.

In total, today was a 15 mile ride. Took about 75 minutes, so not a terribly intense pace. But 15 miles is 15 miles, so I'll take it.

Played over an hour's worth of tennis in the afternoon, so a fairly productive day considering I'm away.

However, per the diet.

Breakfast: Piece of raisin bread toast, cottage cheese and a peach.

Lunch: Sandwich, with smoked turkey, honey ham, muenster cheese, lettuce and mustard. And a couple sourdough pretzels.

Dinner (where it all went downhill): A few families and mine ordered in some barbeque food. Had about 9 ribs, large section of chicken, baked beans, string beans, macaroni salad, cole slaw and corn bread. And to top it all off, some pie.

Why did I just tell you this? Because I didn't. I don't know who's reading this, if anyone still, so this is to make me aware of how awful that was. Typing that out sucked. But hey, it's vacation. And at least there was a lot of protein built into today.

Tomorrow is the start of week 3 of phase II. Definitely doing some abs and hopefully the rest of tomorrow's Monday workout.

And perhaps better eating habits? Perhaps.

(Round 2) Day 40: Cardio

If this were the MLB, consider today a travel day. Spent most of my day in a car and eating.

Productive part was playing 45 minutes of tennis, so I'll have to consider that cardio. No kenpo today.

Tomorrow's supposed to be an off day but I'm sure I'll manage some cardio throughout the day.

Posting via my BlackBerry so hopefully this is fairly typo-free.

(Round 2) Day 39: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X

Started my vacation, while still home, with legs and back on the resistance bands. No pullups for me today. Bands take more reps to feel that burn but I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow.

Finished up with abs. Using the book while I'm away for everything, including abs.

As I said, hopefully I'll keep up my posts from tomorrow through Wednesday. Otherwise, talk to you in a few days.

(Round 2) Day 38: Yoga

Kept on track with yoga today. Muscle building didn't make sense cause I'm back to that tomorrow.

I'm heading away for the weekend to sit on a beach. Bringing my resistance bands and fitness book so hopefully I can keep up with it. Expect a new label for those couple of days: Bike. Going down to a rather flat part of the U.S. of A which is ideal for some 5-7 mile bike rides in the morning.

I'll do my best to keep up with the posts. Otherwise when I return I'll have to do some back tracking.

(Round 2) Day 37: Stretch X, Rest

Didn't find time to workout today so consider this an off day. Whoops.

I'll skip yoga tomorrow and make up for today's slip instead.

(Round 2) Day 36: Plyometrics

Plyo today.

Wish I had more to say about Tuesdays. Very repetitive in nature. More to say tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 35: Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X

Late night workout. Little rough, not my favorite time to do this. But at least it got done.

Abs to finish. Hopefully by getting my act together I'll work on those the most. Summer's quickly approaching and I don't have a 6-pack. That's a shame.

Plyo tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 34: Kenpo

Finished up the week with some Kenpo. Ready to get into a strong second week of phase two. I'll track results from my pullups to see how I compare to previous weeks, and definitely post more about my more recent eating habits.

Chest, shoulders and triceps tomorrow. And abs.

(Round 2) Day 33: Stretch X, Rest

Switched Saturday and Sunday. Off day today, working out tomorrow instead.

(Round 2) Day 32: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X

I'm out of shape.

Well not entirely. It's just that my pullup numbers were clearly lower today than they should have been. Might be time for a 100 pushup, 100 pullup day to whip myself back into shape. Perhaps tomorrow I'll do that in lieu of kenpo.

Everything else was fine. Legs hurt in a good way, abs hurt in their usual way. More tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 31: Yoga

A slightly abridged version of yoga today. However a productive day eating and a good start to 'getting my routines back in order.'

Legs and back tomorrow.

(Round ) Day 30: Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X

Back and biceps today. Nothing too terrible. First time through it for round 2 so it had some challenges, but I've done it before, so not bad.

Finished with abs.

However, today is more about results than anything. Which I'm not happy about. And is of course, mea culpa.

My diet sucked these past 30 days. And as I've said repeatedly, I'm not going to see results unless I'm eating well.

So, while I've blogged every day, and worked out according to most of p90x's schedule, I think I've gotten fatter. Well, maybe not fat, but I didn't move in the right direction over the past 30 days.

I hate it. I hate how I've felt. And I hate what I've missed. I could be ____ right now. In that blank could be anything: Lacking love handles. Showing more abs. More muscular than before. Anything. But eating improperly has pointed me in the wrong direction.

So today is my vow to get back into it, full force, no more lollygagging. Get back into running. Get back into eating 5-6 healthy meals a day. Get back into having great things to say about my workout routines.

So here are the pictures I owe, but are being posted with a serious lack of pride. Here's to the next 60:

(Round 2) Day 29: Plyometrics

Back to good ol' plyo. Not a terrible day of eating either.

Tomorrow's Day 30 and some awful pictures. This will truly be a reality check and get me back into the game. Consider this my recession.

(Round 2) Day 28: Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X

Back to working out.

And back to trying to eat right.

Today: Banana, protein bar, bagel with butter, tofu chili, peanut butter, M&M peanuts.

Alright, compared to my first few weeks of p90x this is crap. But it's headed back in the right direction. And I'm trying out an online program called Calorie Count, that will analyze my nutrition over the course of a day, week, month, or however long I want to input my eating habits on a daily basis.

Today I came up short on calories, but got a ton of protein and not too many carbs. I'll dive more into that if I keep it up.

Everything else was good. Back to doing abs which is nice. Plyo tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 27: Yoga X

Some yoga today.

Approaching phase II of round II. Really need to get my diet back together. Might jump on Calorie Count to track what I'm eating, see what time of vitamins and nutrients I'm missing, and go from there.

Not excited for Day 30 pictures. As I've said before, if the diet's not there, the workout doesn't do anything. Might have regressed a bit. But that's why I have 63 more days in round 2.

(Round 2) Day 26: Stretch X, Rest

Switched today's Yoga with an off day. Wasn't up for yoga-ing.

This week I get my routine back into gear, working out hard and eating right. More about that tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 25: Core Synergistics

Woke up early to get this one in. Still not my favorite but at least it only happens once every 4 weeks.

Yoga tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 25: Stretch X, Rest

Off day for me.

For as much p90x as I've done, I've came to this realization: If you're not true to yourself with the diet, you're not going to see results.

That's what's happened to me for these first 25 days of round 2. I haven't been on my game with eating, and I haven't been getting good results. In fact, I might have backtracked. I'm going to do my best to get back in the right direction, starting this weekend.

Tomorrow's core synergistics, my favorites. Expect a diet update this Sunday.

(Round 2) Day 24: Kenpo X

Sorry to all my loyal readers who woke up today to find NO NEW POST!

Well I worked out yesterday, just forgot to blog. First time in 113 days.

Yesterday was Kenpo. Not too much to report on it. Did most of it, left some kicking out of it.

Time for an off day, to which I'll have a new post. Cheers.

(Round 2) Day 23: Core Synergistics

As I said yesterday, I hate core synergistics.

This workout makes you believe there's no such thing as a recovery week.

Banana rolls and sphinx pushups are miserable. The whole routine hurts. And I have to do it again in a couple days.

Kenpo lined up for tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 22: Yoga

Sticking with the schedule for now. Did the Ted MacDonald Yoga video again. Maybe I'll move on to Park II next time. Although I hate yoga so much I doubt that will be of any help.

Core synergistics tomorrow. I hate core synergistics.

(Round 2) Day 21: Stretch X, Rest

Day off today.

Recovery week is this week as I approach day 120 (day 30 of round 2).

Going to try to eat really well this week and see how far that, and some extra workouts, gets me.

Yoga tomorrow. Definitely doing ab ripper x throughout the upcoming week to keep that going strong.

(Round 2) Day 20: Kenpo

Yup, Kenpo today. Not much to report. More tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 19: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X

Feels like it's been a while since I did this routine in its entirety. Didn't track pullups as they got off to a less than roaring start.

Legs were okay. Haven't do that full routine in a while so pretty painful.

No running. Just finished with abs. Kenpo tomorrow.

(Round 2) Day 18: Yoga

Yoga today. Not p90x version but instead the "Yoga for Athletes 1" with Ted MacDonald, which I'd done before. Just under 30 minutes, nothing terrible.

Maybe I'll get back into running tomorrow. As well as legs and back. And those abs.

(Round 2) Day 17: Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X

Looking forward to next week to change stuff up. Pretty routine today.

Abs today were tough, finally getting over my Saturday pullup/pushup routine.

Yoga scheduled for tomorrow, we'll see what my schedule entails.

(Round 2) Day 16: Plyometrics

Back to working out in the morning. Today was pretty rough, first time in a while jumping around to plyo that early.

Still pretty sore from that Saturday routine. My body just wasn't used to that kind of routine. Which means I might have to do it again this Saturday.

Tomorrow's arms and shoulders. And some abs.

(Round 2) Day 15: Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X

Ow. My Saturday workout is still hurting me.

Difficulty with both pushups and pullups today. Even ab ripper x hurt more than usual. Not a bad thing I guess, just discouraging with my results. Going to hurt even more tomorrow.

Plyo, or some sort of cardio, on deck.

(Round 2) Day 14: Stretch X, Rest

Yesterday I made up my own chest and back routine thinking that this week was a recovery week. Wrong. This upcoming week is week 3 of phase I, meaning chest and back appears, well, tomorrow.

I'm in a good amount of pain today from my routine. It's all about shocking the body. I could have done just about anything, so long as it was different from what I'd done before, and I'd be sore today. However I think my choice of 100 pullups and 100 pushups made it all that much harder.

Stretched a bit today to try to get over my aches. Even my abs hurt today, even though there was no ab ripper x. Pushups definitely worked my core.

Tomorrow, the real chest and back and ab ripper x, should be interesting.

(Round 2) Day 13: 100 Pullups, 100 Pushups

Invented my own p90x workout today.

My goal was to do 100 pullups and 100 pushups within a reasonable amount of time, such that another p90x workout could be done in the same amount of time.

Broke it up into 8 groups of 25, alternating pullups on the bar and pushups on the yoga mat. There was to be zero assistance from a chair (pullups) or my knees (pushups). Here are the results:

12 reverse grip chinups
8 wide grip pullups
5 close grip pullups

25 standard pushups

10 parallel pullups*
5 wide grip pullups
10 reverse grip chinups

15 military pushups
10 diamond pushups

7 reverse grip chinup
12 parallel pullups
6 wide grip pullups

18 wide fly pushups
7 dive bomber pushups

8 wide grip pullups
7 close grip pullups
10 reverse grip chinups

10 floor fly pushups
15 standard pushups

*My pullup bar has two bars, shoulder width apart, perpendicular to the main bar.

I just alternated different moves. The more I could get done in the first set, the closer I'd be to 25 and less my other/final set(s) would entail.

I figure this is my own version of Chest and Back, and considering this coming Monday is the beginning over recovery week, there are no chest or back workouts for another 9 days.

There are no guarantees that this routine will do anything for me. However, it hurt like hell, so give it a shot at your leisure.