Day 23

The end, essentially, of week 2 of P90X. The Warrior was the workout for today and I got gassed during it. I also pushed myself harder as I should know what I am doing or at least a good idea. Why I say essentially is just that tomorrow can be a day of rest or do the Dynamix workout. Which I choose to do that workout. It is a good stretching for my lower back and helps with the pain that I have personally.

Today felt good though. I was able to keep up for the most part and do all, but the 2 ab exercises that I still struggle with. The abs will come in time, but it will be slower than the other muscle groups. I have seen a lot of people complain about The Warrior workout. I guess it's the elitist attitude in some of the more veteran P90Xers. They feel that it is not enough I guess. For whatever reason they don't like it and I guess they will be substituting other things in that day. Maybe I am a P90X apologist and just do what is presented to me as it has it's design and it has proven successful. Who am I to rock that boat. If I were 3 or 4 years into P90X and X2 or Insanity or any of the other extreme fitness programs available out there, I might also think that this is a slap in the face of the original P90X and it's extremity and intensity.

All of that aside, I can start to see the changes in my body. Now my transformation is 23 days old, while my use of P90X3 is only on day 13. My eating habits started on Day 1, but they improved daily until I got to about day 9 and then I went all in on everything. Now my only downfall was 2 days at Christmas, but otherwise I was really good. Tomorrow I will weigh in again and officially post it after my Dynamix workout. This point will be halfway through the first block and I will have one more week with the current set of dvds in this order then the transition week is week 4 and it is close to the same, but there are some slight variations. We will discuss those as they pop up.

Last week I burned around 4300 cals and 1 pound of fat is only 3500 cals so there is one pound of fat lost. My intake has been hovering around the 1900 cal range and that is about 600 cals a day less than what I have allotted for maintenance. That is around 4200 cals less per week, and again another pound of fat lost. Now one other caveat is that I am not eating any starches to speak of. No white breads or grains. Not really any whole grains to speak of. My carbs come primarily from fruits and veggies. This is a hidden source of fat burning as you cause the insulin/glucagon system to go the way of the "low carb" diet. This means that my fat stores are used for the glucose for daily function of the body and brain. How much body fat is used for this is hard to determine. The only true measure with limited resources is weight, look and how your clothes fit. You may not be able to accurate track fat loss vs muscle gain with using weight as your sole tool, but you can use your eyes and see that changes are being made. You can also measure your waist, arms, legs etc to gain perspective as well.

I will post pictures from day 1 of P90X3, not true day 1 and day 30 of the program along with weights and measures to give an idea of what has taken place thus far. The workouts are tough and it seems discouraging at first when you know you won't look like them for some time, you won't be able to do all the workouts the way they do it for some time and you won't be able to keep up like they can. Just remember that everyone has to start somewhere, the key is STARTING. If you don't start, you will never look, workout or keep up like them. EVER!

Push play. Push play everyday. Keep up, don't keep up. It doesn't matter. You have to get there and the only way to do that is to work. Britney Spears has a song... You wanna hot body, You want a bugatti, You wanna maseratti, You better work bitch....
You want a lamborghini, Sip martinis, Look hot in a bikini, You better work bitch...

You better work bitch...