My Power 90 Journey

Day 10 done. Just finished Sculpt 1-2 and was able to do a 6/6/5. That 5th one was tough. Started on time again, no pissing and moaning about having to workout. My heart was pounding a minute ago but has slowed down. Feeling good and surprisingly mellow right now.  Going to hit the shower then figure out what to make for dinner.

Today’s Wrap-up

• Push-ups – 10
• Heavy Pants – 15 / 15# weights
• Military Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Standard Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Back Scratch – 15 (each arm) / 8# weights
• Lunges – 3
• Fly Push-ups – 10
• Back Flys – 15 / 15# weights
• Swimmer’s Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Open Arm Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Kick Backs – 15 / 10# weights
• Lunge/Squats – 3
• 7/7/7 Push-ups – Fly – 6, Close – 6, Standard –5
• Lawnmower – 15 each arm / 15# weights
• Shoulder Flys – 15 / 8# weights
• Biceps 21’s – 7 low, 7 high, 7 full / 10# weights
• Chair Dips – 10
• 3 Part Squats – 8 each

It’s Monday.. Day 8 and the start of week 2 of my Power 90 Journey. It was an interesting weekend but my beloved Patriots beat the Ravens and I completed the first week.

Today I have to say was an all around good day. Work was good, I kept busy and the day just cruised right along. I enjoyed a relaxing afternoon and now I just finished Sculpt 1-2. I upped the weight on the Lawnmower back to 15 pounds and while I was still a bit winded at that point it wasn’t as bad as last week, so I’m guessing that’s improvement.

Tonight I am going to purge the rest of the crap from my kitchen because it is a huge temptation and as I found out this afternoon makes it easy to slip up. I ended up eating a couple snack pack sized Doritos and a hot dog. Coming home after work is the worst time of day for me food wise. Other than that slip up everything else been good.

Here is today’s sculpt breakdown. Today I also managed a 6/6/4. That’s also a small milestone.

• Push-ups – 10
• Heavy Pants – 15 / 15# weights
• Military Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Standard Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Back Scratch – 15 (each arm) / 8# weights
• Lunges – 3
• Fly Push-ups – 10
• Back Flys – 15 / 15# weights
• Swimmer’s Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Open Arm Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Kick Backs – 15 / 10# weights
• Lunge/Squats – 3
• 7/7/7 Push-ups – Fly – 6, Close – 6, Standard – 4
• Lawnmower – 15 each arm / 15# weights
• Shoulder Flys – 15 / 8# weights
• Biceps 21’s – 7 low, 7 high, 7 full / 10# weights
• Chair Dips – 10
• 3 Part Squats – 8 each

This was a good workout.. took me a bit to get started (as usual). Today was Sculpt 1-2. I hate doing push-ups. On the 7/7/7 I tried to do 6 each but ended up doing 6/6/3. I’ll just keep trying and I know I’ll be able to do it.

Eating was good today, I’m going to have an antipasto salad with light italian dressing.

Here is today’s workout breakdown

• Push-ups – 10
• Heavy Pants – 15 / 15# weights
• Military Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Standard Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Back Scratch – 15 (each arm) / 8# weights
• Lunges – 3
• Fly Push-ups – 10
• Back Flys – 15 / 15# weights
• Swimmer’s Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Open Arm Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Kick Backs – 15 / 10# weights
• Lunge/Squats – 3
• 7/7/7 Push-ups – Fly – 6, Close – 6, Standard – 3
• Lawnmower – 15 each arm / 10# weights
• Shoulder Flys – 15 / 8# weights
• Biceps 21’s – 7 low, 7 high, 7 full / 10# weights
• Chair Dips – 10
• 3 Part Squats – 8 each

Man this keeping track of what I’m eating is tough. Usually I just shovel the food in and forget about it. To be fair it’s going a lot better than I thought it would. I’m basically just trying to be consistent as much as I can. It was grocery day today so I’m not going to starve. Tonight is spaghetti night, actually it’s rigatoni night. Going to throw in some Ragu sauce and instead of the usual angus meatballs I’ve been getting I picked up some turkey meatballs. We’ll see how that works out.I’ve actually been pretty good taking my supplements. I now keep it in my lunch box and take one during my 9am meal.

After working out for 2 days on my hardwood living room floor, I decided I needed a yoga mat or something because on the stretches and power yoga routines I was slipping and sliding. I also picked up a heart rate monitor which  now need to learn how to use correctly. On to my workout.

Power 90 Sculpt 1-2

• Push-ups – 10
• Heavy Pants – 15 / 15# weights
• Military Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Standard Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Back Scratch – 15 (each arm) / 8# weights
• Lunges – 3
• Fly Push-ups – 10
• Back Flys – 15 / 15# weights
• Swimmer’s Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Open Arm Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Kick Backs – 15 / 10# weights
• Lunge/Squats – 3
• 7/7/7 Push-ups – Fly – 5, Close – 5, Standard – 5
• Lawnmower – 15 each arm / 10# weights
• Shoulder Flys – 15 / 8# weights
• Biceps 21’s – 7 low, 7 high, 7 full / 8# weights
• Chair Dips – 10
• 3 Part Squats – 8 each

I’m still drinking the glass of chocolate milk after my workouts. I still can’t find my camera but I’m sure I will soon and will have the starting photos posted.

Today’s Food Intake, including dinner which I am going to make.

• Calories – 2,109
• Carbs – 308
• Fat – 43
• Protein – 109

Today was a good and bad day. I was feeling good most of the day and was looking forward to working out tonight. When I got home from work around 3:30, the usual habits kicked in hard.. I was on the couch, unmotivated and subconsciously wanted to sabotage my desire to get healthy. I ended up eating two small bags of chips and a small bag of fritos   (each bag was 1 oz each), a handful of gummi bears, some pepperoni slices and I finished off what was left of a 2 liter of coke.

I then proceeded to take a nap, sleeping past 6 o’clock which I had decided to make my workout time. I woke up at 6:45 feeling groggy and still completely unmotivated. Finally at 7:30 I stopped procrastinating, got my bottle of water and a sweat rag and pressed play.

Power 90 Sculpt 1-2

• Push-ups – 10
• Heavy Pants – 15 / 15# weights
• Military Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Standard Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Back Scratch – 15 (each arm) / 8# weights
• Lunges – 3
• Fly Push-ups – 10
• Back Flys – 15 / 15# weights
• Swimmer’s Press – 15 / 10# weights
• Open Arm Curls – 15 / 10# weights
• Kick Backs – 15 / 10# weights
• Lunge/Squats – 3
• 7/7/7 Push-ups – Fly – 7, Close – 7, Standard – 3
• Lawnmower – 15 / #15 weights (Had to take a long break after this one, going to go down to 10# for now)
• Shoulder Flys – 15 / 8# weights
• Biceps 21’s – 7 low, 7 high, 7 full / 8# weights
• Chair Dips – 10
• 3 Part Squats – 8 each

After my workout I drank 8oz of chocolate milk. I picked up this tip on the Beachbody forums, if this is wrong please correct me.

For breakfast I had a bowl of Life cereal with 1% milk and a yogurt with granola. (9am)

For Lunch I had a chicken salad sandwich on a potato roll and a bottle of water (noon)

When I got home I ate all the crap I listed above (3:30pm)

Dinner is going to be a chocolate Shakeology shake because it’s really too late to cook anything now.

For supplements I will be taking One A Day Men’s Health Formula.

So that’s it for day 1. I’m going to put my stats on a separate page and pictures will go in a gallery. I have to find my camera before I can take the day 1 photos. Comments and Motivation are greatly appreciated and most likely needed.