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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Well, I have a good base line

So today started my second round of P90X and I only have 89 days left so they should just fly right on by. Like I said the other day I planned out the resistance I was going to use over the weekend and just filled the numbers in as I did the workouts, and today was my first go around with my new push up bars. A guy that has been doing P90X here at the office told me to expect my push up numbers to go down once I started using the bars. He was right, I figured the numbers would go down but I really didn't thing they would add the level of intensity that they did to the workout. By the time the first break was coming up I was was crying for it. Most of my resistance band reps were in the 7 to 10 rep range which is what everything I read says you should get to before failure if you want to gain muscle mass so I think I did a good thing today. My plan is to keep the resistance where it is now until I am able to get to that 13th rep on an exercise, once that happens (with good form) I will up the resistance and work to getting to 13 reps again. Now I say this with the assumption that I will get to the 13th rep before the end of the 90 days but I am remaining hopeful and will do everything I can to get there. When I was done with the workout I did what I said I was going to do and went for a short little 15 minute run. I ended up going three laps around my block for a total of about 1.7 miles, I would have liked to do  four laps but time was not permitting. My next post workout run will be on Friday, which will be after the legs and back routine so I won't be surprised if I only to a lap or two. Like I said yesterday I am not doing on the runs for the additional calorie burn but for the health and fat burning benefits that I heard you get from going on a short run after resistance training. One thing that does excite me is that I have the same passion I had for the next workout as I did the first time through the program and I am already looking forward to tomorrow morning's Cardio X and Bob Harper (sub for Ab Ripper) yoga abs. I am shooting for the same intensity level I brought to the workout today on those workouts. I can tell you I should be stupid sore tomorrow since it has only been a few hours since the morning workout and I am already getting a little tender. Man I hope I end up pretty darn close to my goal after this round. For the first time in a while I even added my exercise to myfitnesspal.com and after seeing that I am worried that I am going to have to take in even more calories to get the muscle gain that I want but we will have to see. If I put on a little fat while building muscle (which is normal) I will just make my third round of P90X the lean program to get the fat off. :-) I am soooo sure my wife is just thrilled that I am one day through my second cycle and am already planning my third.

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