Not a warrior...yet

My first day after the end of P90X has been a good one, later today I am going to get a massage to help release the tension I have in my shoulders and back and I am considering it as a reward for getting through the program. I am at the house on my own as my wife and child are down south with family. I was thinking that I was going to go on a run but decided against in because of the amount of food I had for breakfast and it was getting a little warm today, I like running in the mornings better anyways. I decided that I could get an extra workout between this cycle of P90X and my next one which I have scheduled to start on April 11th so I put in my Bob Harper Yoga for the Warrior in the player and gave it a go. It is funny to me that a lot of the moves are the same moves that you find in Yoga X but the transitions between each of the moves are faster and he does go into a few poses that I didn't know. I know I didn't do the best of jobs getting through it and I got a few poses wrong but it is hard the first time you see a yoga DVD since you are not looking at the screen much to make sure you are doing the poses correctly. I also decided to say the heck with it and do the Ab workout on the DVD right after the yoga part and trust me when I say it didn't get any easier from the first time but I am starting to get familiar with it so just like the Ab Ripper X it will come. When I start my next P90X I will be using the Bob Harper ab DVD in place of the Ab Ripper X every now and again as well. If you can't tell I am trying to add even more intensity to this next cycle of P90X. I was very happy with the results I got from the program the first time around and even though I have not taken my after pictures yet I know they are going to be good, now I am planning on getting some more mass and lean out a little bit more. I know because of how large I got that I won't get the final build that I want because of extra skin I have from being a size 46 inch waist but I am going to keep trying to get there. All the things I have been reading online say that it can take up to a year a more for the extra skin to tighten up around the body, I have seen it start to tighten on my legs and arms and a bit on my chest and stomach so I am expecting to the tightening to stop near the end of the year. The way I see it, it does not hurt to go ahead and help the process along as much as I can by just continuing to work hard and build more muscle. I have not done the final fit test for the after part of this cycle but I don't think that I will, I am going to wait until the end of the second cycle and see how it goes. Here is what I can tell you from the first cycle, I lost 3 lbs, and an inch and a half around my waist line. (by my count that means I gained 7 lbs of muscle as I was once told it takes 10 lbs of weight loss to change your waist an inch) My biceps are .5 inch bigger than they were when I started, and my chest has gotten one inch smaller. I also lost another 1% body fat (again not an accurate number I think but seeing a lower number makes me happy). All and all great results but for this next run I want to see numbers go up and I plan on taking a look at my last workout sheets to see what resistance I was using on each of the workouts and bumping it up before I start so I have an even harder starting point. Like I said I am going for intensity this time around. Keep an eye on the blog the next few days to see how my running and Bob Harpoer warrioring is going. I want to have a pretty good handle on the workouts before the next P90X cycle.