My Power 90 Journey

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

Long day today and motivation was a little low. I’m usually home by 3pm, but today I lucked out and got a little overtime. This meant I didn’t get home until just after 6:30. I’m now feeling a little tired and to be honest.. cardio isn’t my favorite thing  lol. Not because I don’t like it.. It just always takes me a little bit longer to get into it. My workout time is 7pm but I manged to start around 7:10.

It’s done, Day 4, Cardio 1-2 and Ab Ripper 100 complete. On tuesday I did 6 reps each of the ab exercises and today I did 7. I can feel it. I definitely got sweaty but now that it is done I feel better about myself and proud that I pushed through the mental block. I’m also still being good about keeping track of my food. Here is today’s result including dinner I have yet to consume.

• Calories – 1997
• Carbs – 334
• Fat – 23
• Protein – 117

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

Made it to day 2. My motivation was good so there was no procrastination before my workout. 7pm is my official workout time and so far it seems to be working. This means that dinner is going to be a bit on the late side. I may end up making it 6pm.. we’ll have to see how this week goes.

Today’s workout was Power 90 Sweat 1-2 and Ab Ripper 100. It went well I think. I took mini breaks in between each set to get my heart rate down a bit and my breathing calmed down. It seemed to work because I didn’t burn myself out and was able to get through the whole thing and still sweated like a pig.

When it came to Ab Ripper 100, on the advice of my Beachbody coach, I only did 6 reps of each exercise and I still felt it when I was done. (OK, he said to do 5 but I went 6)

Eating went well today. I pretty much had the same thing as I did yesterday except when I got home at 3 I had a yogurt instead. At 6 I had a shakeology shake and when I finish this post (and after my shower) I’m going to make some chicken and broccoli alfredo. I’m probably going to have a can of Bud Light with it.

I’m going to try like heck to keep track of what I’m eating so I’m plugging everything in to a food diary at http://www.myfitnesspal.com.  This is today’s results including what I’m going to eat tonight.

• Calories – 2,313
• Carbs – 338
• Fat – 46
• Protein – 130

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.