Day 57

Chest and Back- It's back people. ".. and when Round 2 comes around you got to bring it". A 42 day gap inbetween the last time I was assigned to do this routine. Everything improved since the the last time I did this routine.

I was doing 5lbs on the "Back Flys".. which is wayyy to light this time around. I did 15lbs this time, but I'll definately need to increase it some more.

For "Heavy Pants" and "Lawnmowers".. your sort of in a lunge, I was lifting 30 and 35 this time (up from 20 and 20). I didn't relize the force I was putting on my legs, until I started Ab Ripper X.. 20 minutes later. I might hold off on increasing more, until my legs feel like they can take it more.

I felt good doing the pushups, and just slightly improved my reps with the pull ups... but then again I have to keep in mind I wasn't going as low then as I am now (which of course makes it harder).


Ab Ripper X- For "Fifer Scissors" everyone has their heads on the ground. I've been laying with my upper back off the ground.. where I feel like my abs are working hard, my legs are solid, and it's easier to breath. Today, I started laying back. I maybe had shoulders 2 inches off the ground.. it's sort of like getting the best of both worlds. It's harder to breath.. but I think that maybe it wokring just bit harder though.

Day 56

Stretch X- I've only done Stretch X a couple of other times. Basically, an hour of stretching. No real sweating in this routine. I appreciate the "Wrist-Forearm Flexor Stretch". For whatever reason they never do this any other workout, but its something that I set gymnasts do.. that would help your wrist with pushups (without pushup bars) and that "Crane" position in the Yoga X.

Tomorrow begins the Final Phase of P90X, which will last 5 weeks.

Day 55

Yoga X- Everything went well. I held crane for about 50 seconds. It allways feel good to finish Yoga.

Day 54

Core Synergistics- I did this yesterday. It went well, I think. I could improve with the Plank / Chatarunga Run and Chataranga Iso. Everything is else is I'm happy with for now.

Day 53, This Blog

P90X- Yesterday (this morning) I again misused my time. I decided I needed to get to sleep, and toke my Rest Day. Which means I'll be doing todays workout Stretch X, Sunday (Monday Morning).

This Blog- The orginal pupose of this blog was to maintain a daily update on my progress with P90X, doing this it helps keeps my accountable for working out daily (aside from the scheduled "Rest Day"). Additionally it tracks my progress, provides feedback to what I'm doing (via comments), and gives me extra purpose to explore ways I can improve in either the workouts or with my nutrition.

When I finish P90X, I don't want to stop with the entries or my own development. So, this blog will be a bit more of a general blog, but will keep the theme of "My Development".. in respects to whatever I want to get from myself.. physically, mentally, creatively, etc. . I have something setup for my next challenge after I complete P90X. I would also like to start another round of P90X at the beginning of next year; unless, something else comes up.

Day 52

GameDev- I got off work earlier then normal tonight. I got a little burst of insperation to do some programming, but couldn't get into it. I just want sure how to proceed. For example I have a World class and a Player class. I want to implent a system where single screen Pseudo-Maps are created.. so when the player moves into a new map.. things can get askwed a bit. So the player would have the impression they knew where they were(single screen maps), but reality would be off a bit(askwed placement of maps). My problem was how to go about it in a Object-Oriented matter and which information/routines should be handled in which classes. At one point I thought maybe I should just write the thing in a good old procedural basic language.. then refer to that for writing it in C++. Seems like it would take a while, but it might end up making better code in the C++ version.. and then I could release the basic version for the competetion's deadline.

After my brief programming session, I got distracted with an oldder tv series I've seen before. The theme for the programming competetion is "Wilderness Survival". At one point I thought it would be neat to interput prison life as just that.. living in a chaotic unfamiliar enviroment. So I was drawing some inspiration from the TV series "Prision Break".

Kenpo X- So.. I started late due to the above mentioned reason. I felt like I had to put more effort in (starting late). I did good though.

Day 51

Core Synergistics- I'm glad to be doing this again. Apperantly I didn't record anything in my log for this routine a month ago, aside from my blog entries. I do remember not being able to do the chatarunga run, which I was able to briefly do this time around. I walked away feeling good, no really soreness compared to last time's blog entry. Maybe, for next time I could push myself to achive a bit more.

Nutrition- I have made an entry in a while. Everything is similar to what it was. I now have been eating Walnuts more so then Almonds. They both rank as the top two healthiest nuts in many random websites. Walnuts are a little cheaper though, even though they don't taste as good. On the other hand, when I'm eating Almonds the little bits sometimes get caught in my throat and make me cough.. this only seems happens at work for some reason (maybe my throat isn't as lubricated?).