Day 83

Week 11, Day 3 The Challenge done. My challenge today was to do 150 pushups in the workout. Last time I did 122 and was really excited that I was able to increase from 75. I was able to do exactly 150. I set my numbers to 15 and was able to do the 15 on all, but I added 2 on regular each time and wide. I was also able to get an extra one on the second round of the alternating hand pushups. I also did 21 during burnout which was 1 more than last week's burnout. My arms are jello and I am glad that today is a burpee rest day. While I did the exact same amount of pull downs with the same amount of resistance, I felt weaker than last week, but I did an extra rep at the end. I really felt a little sore in my lats or least it seemed like I was feeling that. I really enjoy feeling a hard workout and getting to failure in some of the pushups.

Today was the last time to do this workout, so I won't be able to increase these numbers until next round. I still have a 21 Day Fix to do between then and now, but I think I will be ready to push my numbers up to 175 or so. If I increase the regular sets by 3 with each one that will be a 16 pushup total increase. My number this time was 15 for each and I did 17 on 4 but if I increase all of them by a total of 3 then it will be 24. I have 5 weeks to get ready for that.

The weather around here is going to be much warmer for the next week, and it is about time. This Saturday is the start of Daylight Savings, today is Ash Wednesday and the year is moving right along. Spring is officially starting on Monday and it is awesome to see the changes coming. 2014 is the year I take my life back and the good weather will be a part of that for me. I am going to get a bike to ride to add another aspect of cardio and leg strengthening in. I am going to do a 5k donut dash on March 15th. I will be opting out of the donuts by telling them I am borderline diabetic and well it is kind of true.

I have a glucometer and they thought I would be diabetic by my A1C. I fooled them all. My A1C was 5.5 which is in the higher range of normal I think, and the PA told me my blood sugars run around 150 or so. I told her there was no way, but I will do the checks for 6 months and bring the results in. As I thought I was right. My highest glucose reading I ever had was 123. It was in the morning before I ate and it was the only reading over 100 in 6 months. My readings were in the 80's and 90's mostly and this was me checking my blood sugar mornings, 30 mins before meals and 1 hour after meals and bedtime. I was doing it like 6 times a day for a month or 2. I then just went to after meals and bed time so I got the finger sticking to 4 times a day. After the 6 months the PA was stumped and figured I had some sort of rebound blood sugar thing that made it higher in the morning after not eating all night. Regardless, she was like... "ok so you aren't diabetic" I stopped checking after that appointment, however, with being overweight and eating like crap it is easy to become borderline or even full on IDDM Type II. Luckily if it is early on, you can correct this with diet and exercise. That is what I am working on. I am sure it will be time to see a doctor some time this year. I think I will need to establish a baseline of where I am soon. I will wait until I lose some more weight so it can be better for me.

I look forward to every day more so than I have in the past. I am really excited to do the 21 Day Fix all the way instead of just the nutrition plan. It is genius, but I want to get those workouts in. I would do them along with P90X3, but I feel that I am already adding enough extra that I don't need to add those workouts in as well. I am doing 100 pushups  per day at least and the burpee challenge. The number is at 20 right now, but by day 30 it will be 100. Really?!!? So I figure that adding in another 30 min workout was a bit overkill. I will get my body more ready for days like that in the future. In the grand plan this round of P90X is my warm up and the rest of the life will get the heavy workout. I will be killing my self soon enough when I do my second round of P90X3 or getting Body Beast, which will happen or Les Mills Pump and let's not forget Insanity and Asylum. These are all workouts I want to do. Oh yeah T25 as well. I have a life time to workout and I don't have to kill myself today. I can do build up a bit and get the joints ready.