Dear Bob Harper.....

Well I know I have been out for a while again but it has been yet another stupid busy week that I have been having a hard time keeping up with but I don't have a whole lot going on today and should be fairly caught up. I have been pushing through my last week of P90X and have only one workout left tomorrow morning before I am a P90X grad! When I finish I am going to take the 10 days off I have been talking about taking to do some running and my new Bob Harper video so that I stay active. The end of P90X could not have come at a better time, today I am going to the doctor for a physical, it will be the first time I have seen a doctor since losing 115 pounds, as a matter of fact in is going to be the first physical I have had since 1998 so I am interested to see what comes of it. One thing I hope happens in I can get a body fat % since the measuring systems I use don't seem to be all that accurate I would like to get a pretty accurate number today while I am with the nurse. I figure the number won't change too much between today and Sunday when I get to take my final after pictures and fit test to see how I ended up. Today was Cardio X which is only the second time I have done that workout and as per the P90X schedule it is really the first time I would have done it had I not used it in place of Plyo the Tuesday after my half marathon. It is a pretty good workout and I have fun doing it since it has a little bit of exercises from each of the other cardio videos in the program. Since it is shorter and I finished early since I forgot that I couldn't eat lunch today I decided to give my new Bob Harper DVD a go, I just did the 15 minute Ab workout not the yoga yet. Let me tell you all this, Bob had me wishing for Ab Ripper X, all thought Ab Ripper is a hard workout I think I have gotten pretty darn good at it and the Bob workout totally blows it out of the water in the way of difficulty. If you do all the advanced moves (which I tried as much as I could) you find yourself keeping your abs contracted for the entire 15 minutes of the video, needless to say that did not happen for me. I am thinking that rather than spending the money on ankle weights for my second go round with P90X to make the Ab Ripper harder I am just going to do the Bob workout in its place. As I sit here now my Abs are still on fire and I finished the workout about 40 minutes ago. I totally think I will be feeling the affects of the workout for the rest of the day and perhaps into tomorrow. If nothing else I bet it is going to make the Yoga Belly 7 part of my last workout a lot harder that it would have been otherwise. Tomorrow morning I do have to teach so I will be waking up nice and early to get yoga out of the way before the family wakes up, I will spend a little time with them and then it will be off to school. If I can get body fat % from the doctor today keep an eye out for it on the blog because I will be posting my final results of P90X once I have taken the fit test and gotten all my measurements. Here is something you most likely don't hear from a lot of people on P90X. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I gained somewhere between 7 and 10 pounds. It looks like I have put on a good start to a lean body but I would love to see an increase in weight and muscle when I am done. I guess we will know in a few days.