Day 68

Week 9, Day 2 Agility X done. I felt stronger and was better able to do the moves in this workout over the last time I did it 4 weeks ago. I am sure that is a product of the product. I have been working hard and have been making gains in my leg strength, balance and flexibility along with upper body strength with all the pushups incorporated on top of all the workouts in Block 2. I am pretty sure I have lost more total weight, but I know I have lost more fat. I have started the 21 Day Fix nutrition guide, but am going to stick with the P90X3 workouts as is and not add the 21 Day Fix workouts. When I finish P90X3 in March, I will start a complete round of 21 Day Fix and then see what I want to do after that.

I am liking the 30 min workouts as opposed to the 1 hour workouts from P90X, but I feel I might want to do a round of P90X and maybe X+ and X2 in the future. I also want to do Focus T25 and eventually Insanity and Asylum. Those last 2 will be way in the future and probably not for some time. Each program lasts 60 or 90 days so you can do 2 or 3 or even 4 different programs a year and with something like the 21 Day Fix you can sub that in for 3 weeks here or there. I also want to get a bike at sometime again as I really enjoy riding and that can be a sub in workout for others or add on since I am limiting to 30 mins to an hour opens me up to ride at a later time of day if I so choose.

Today's workout was a good one for me. I felt stronger and more able to do the workouts with better form as compared to the first block. I have increased strength in my entire body which helps with this workout. Most of it is core and lower body, but there is some upper body work in here with the gump pushups and plyo walk pushups. The planking I have done has been a tremendous work on my core and has made my side arm balance 100% better. I still need to get to where I can lift that top leg while in side arm balance, but it will just take more work. I started at 350 lbs and was completely sedentary for the past few years. I had eaten like it was an Olympic event. Now I am working hard and eating for fuel instead of fun.

I do enjoy eating and enjoy finding and creating new ways to get my appropriate foods in. I think food will always be a struggle for me, but I work on it every day and am diligent with my food choices and the timing of when I eat. I also use the 21 Day Fix portion method and nutrition guide, which is slightly different to the P90X3 guide, but generally it isn't fundamentally different. It does have me do less calories than the P90X3 guide, but this plan is designed for fat loss with exercise and a nutrition plan.  If I were doing what I want, I would probably eat a few less carbs and a few more proteins. I will trust the plan as it is and just focus on doing the best I can with what I eat.

I have 4 weeks and a few days left on P90X3 and if I continue to do what the 21 Day Fix nutrition guide has listed, I will most likely have as good a result like that as I would have had doing the 21 Day Fix workouts. I will know for sure over the next 3 weeks. I am going to weigh myself on Thursday which is day 60, today is day 58, and take pics. I am not going to use them as the 21 day start pics as it really doesn't matter. I will do that when I do the 21 day fix alone and not P90X3 stuff involved. All I know is that no matter what I do, I will be doing something and not allowing myself to go back to that fat guy who plays video games and eats crap all the time.