#p90x lean

[locoux]

Does anyone have the p90X fitness guide for the lean routines? I've misplaced my fitness guide, and I don't remember the workouts by heart

[marlotempter2]

I'm on Week 5 of P90X

I have not posted in awhile because of I had gotten lazy to post. But Here's an update. During the first month of workouts I did so-so. I dropped 8lbs from 257 to 249 but that weekend where I was at 249lbs I went on vacation for 5 days in San Francisco. Luckily I only gained 6lbs back from the vacation but it took me 3 weeks to get rid of it. Now I'm back to 249 and still feeling motivated. I have to work out today with Chest Shoulders & Triceps.

Yesterday I was supposed to do Cardio X but my cellphone was dying because I had forgotten to charge it. I decided to jog/run. I jogged/ran 2 miles without stopping. About midway through my 2nd mile the area between my achilles and calve muscle begin to tighten but I decided to push through it and finish my 2 mile. My goal was to do 5 miles but I was only able to achieve 2. 

Afterwards I felt like I was done for the night and I'll work out again today. I ran into a friend. Now this friend of mine, we got into an argument in the middle of the gym. He was saying that I don't put enough effort into my workouts. Now I've been going to the gym for a month and a half. Putting my time in with the P90X. I started off with my ultimate reset detox then hit the P90X a week afterwards. So for him to say I haven't put in the effort is really messed up. He says that I don't have the "Killer Instinct" to come in everyday to workout. I was explaining to him, when I did the P90X a year ago, I injured my shoulder and how I was in the middle of depression stage in my life, we never got into details. People handle depression and injuries their own way. Obviously everybody does not think the same way. This "friend" of mine has been skinny all his life and he decided to lecture me about not having a "killer mentality" to workout. I explained to him that if I jumped into something so fast rather than gradually work myself into things then I might fall off the wagon much faster than how I got on. Each time I go to the gym to workout I push myself further than I did the previous time before. For me I don't think I'm wrong for taking a slower methodical route. He was telling me how he was at a weight of 140 and went up to 180 and back down again. I want to see him at 275 and try to bring it down with the same mentality. The whole point of the way I workout is to eventually live a healthy life. He works out just to workout and eats whatever he wants. So he sits there doing his ab workouts on the machine while there's a can of coca cola sitting right next to him.

I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and work myself to the best of MY ability.

[marlotempter2]

Days 1 and 2

Day 1 Core Synergistics:

My workouts were fine, I'm taking a supplement called Physio-Burn by GNC. It has no caffeine in it. I noticed that with the supplement I ended up sweating a lot more in my workouts. I sweated a lot before because I have a lot that I need to burn but it seemed that I was burning a lot more than usual, which felt great.

The nutrition part for day 1 was really awesome. I had a mushroom omelette made with egg whites and a little of cheese. The nutrition guide said to take cottage cheese and strawberries but I didn't have strawberries. What I did was take 1/2 a banana and ate the cottage chees with that. Which made it so much better tasting. For Lunch I didn't have time to make a Chef salad for myself so I went into McDonalds and got a grilled chicken salad and asked for the balsamic vinaigrette dressing. I took out the tomatoes in the salad, as well. Had my 30 Pistachio nuts while I was watching The Wolverine in the theater (Good movie). Dinner I had a 8oz Salmon. I was teasing my cousin because he had a small mcchicken sandwich and he was teasing me because I couldn't eat fast food. I showed him the size of the 8oz Salmon compared to the small itty bitty mcchicken. I said I think I prefer the 8oz salmon..haha 

Overall Day was a great day... I didn't go over my caloric intake of 2400cal/day rather I ate below it. 2024cal to be exact. I was full and felt great.

Day 2 Cardio:

I workedout my cardio in the afternoon in the gym rather in the morning because I had errands to run. My workout was just fine, just like yesterday, I was sweating a lot as well. I'm thinking it's cause I'm working out pretty hard, along with the supplement that I'm taking.

My fitness pal says that I only ate 800 cal for the day... I don't know if that's right because I felt like I ate a lot.

Breakfast I had my shakeology, the nutritional guide says to take a protein shake, so I used the Shakeology. For a snack I had the premier protein that you get from Costo (<this was prescribed by my nutrionist last year). I made some shrimp stir-fry for lunch and ate another string cheese for a snack and finished off with a 8oz Turkey breast with 3 Tbsp of gravy and half a cup of string beans. 

[marlotempter2]

I messed up AGAIN!!!! But getting back on track.

I was looking at my weight but I did see an increase in weight but I noticed I'm getting slimmer. which could mean I'm gaining muscle. Then I did a little research today as to why I'm not losing weight. I found that most of the time it's toning the body with what you already have. Even though I wanted to lose the fat and weight, I didn't want to look bulky at the end. I came across this website about a guy, Jeremy Yost was at 370lbs, who used the P90X to lose weight and lost 170 lbs. He stated that the P90X regiment was formed in a way for people who are decently fit already but not for people that wanted to lose a big amount of weight, like myself. 

Before I found the website I was thinking maybe I should really follow the nutrition regiment given for the P90X rather than just watch what I'm eating. 

So I found the Nutritional guide for the P90X and I had to calculate my caloric intake/day. When I did that it came out to 3660 cal/day. Which I thought to be too high. Then I continued to read through this persons website ( http://www.jeremyyost.com/2011/04/25/p90x-for-weight-loss/ ) . He took his ideal weight and plugged it in to the P90X formula equation to give him a specific caloric intake. So when I did that I ended up with 2400cal/day. Which to me sounds more accurate. What do you think?

I'm going to start the initial 3 weeks of the program all over again with the meal plan.

I got a bit discouraged when i realized I was gaining muscle but not losing weight. I'm hoping starting monday I'll be right on track and ready to go. I joined MyfitnessPal and plan on putting it on my cellphone. And if my calculations are correct and IF/WHEN I do my workout regiments I should be at my Ideal weight of 150-155 by March 2014.

[marlotempter2]

Week 2

This morning i might have eating a bit much. I had picked up my friend from the bus station because he was arriving from San Francisco. After we ended up at a King's Hawaiian Bakery & Restaurant. Also, my friend gave me a box of Anthony's cookies from SF. That's lots of sugar. I did not eat them all at once... I only had 2 cookies. I knew if I'm going to eat a little bit like this, I need to work out pretty good.

I was trying to figure out how to do the Core Synergistics workout in the gym without having to bring something to play the DVD. So I was able to transfer the file into my phone. Just so I could workout at the gym.... working out in the garage is really tough on your knees when you need to do push-ups and using your knees is a big help to work out the arms and chest. 

Now that I have put the file onto my phone, I headed out to the gym.. I played basketball for 2 hours. Then I jumped into my workout of P90X. I figured I'd add some running. I felt great afterwards.

Day 8 of 90 = √

[marlotempter2]

Day 5 & 6 & Rest Day

So Day 5 was Legs & Back. I was supposed to do it on Friday but I didn't. I ended up doing Legs & Back along with Kenpo X on Saturday. I did them One right after the other.... BOY WHATTA WORK OUT! I'm sticking with it. So far so good.

[marlotempter2]

Yoga X Day 4

Yesterday I did the Yoga. Sadly I failed horribly doing this workout. I was only able to complete 15min of the 1hr 30min workout. I tried and worked up a good sweat but the positions were overwhelming. I'm hoping that next week I'll be able to do more.

[marlotempter2]

Shoulders Arms and Ab Ripper Day 3

I keep forgetting to post Daily and I always say to myself that I'll do it later in the day after the day is done. I'm making up for it today though.

Shoulders Arms and Ab Ripper (<didn't do the Ripper) was tough but I fought through it. I completed 90% of the workouts because Tony Horton said if you're pooped then jump down to the cool down, so I did that. My arms are still sore after 2 days. 

I noticed after the Ultimate Reset, I've been more conscious about what I eat. Which is great but I am intaking more food than what I had in the Ultimate Reset. I'm eating about 1500-1800 cal/day now. When I was on the Reset, from what I read, was 700-1000 cal/day. I'm hoping that this helps me lose weight still as oppose to working against it.