Faster and Fitter - Phase I P90X is DONE

For those junkies who can't sleep, or who just watch way too much TV, there's a late night infomercial where you can get in much better shape by beating the heck out of yourself for 90 days - P90X.

P90X is a 1-2 hour PER DAY workout regimen,  7 days per week.  The layout looks something like this for most of the time (Monday -Sunday):

M - Chest & Back & Abs Weights/Resistance
T - Plyometrics (jumping around like a 6 year old kid on Mountain Dew for an hour)
W - Arms & Back & Abs Weights/Resistance
Th - Kenpo kick boxing
F - Legs & Back & Abs Weights/Resistance
Sat - Yoga - 90 minutes of my least favorite stuff
Sun - Stretch for an hour

That's a lot of working out.  Three weeks of that routine, followed by a week of:

M - Core Synergistics (crazy core workouts)
T - Kenpo kick boxing
W - Yoga
Th - Stretch
F - Core Synergistics
S - Yoga
Sun - Stretch

That's your exercise piece.  Couple that with a pretty restrictive diet, and you have Phase 1 of P90X.

Here's a little secret - the diet is 80% of the achievement of results.  And the diet is the hard part. I spent 2 weeks on the road.  Eating Mom's home cooking for one of them.  And I wasn't a good dieter.  So, after a month of this absurdity, I am down 14.25 pounds as of this morning and a solid 2 inches off the waist.  More importantly, though, is I am sleeping - most days... My overactive mind tends to keep me up all night, and this diet and exercise bit will kick you square in the jaw and knock you out.  If for no other reason, I needed to do it!

I expect that the next month, since I expect to be at home most days, I should be better on my diet, which should result in even more body composition changes.

I started Phase 2, effective today.  Phase 2 looks like Phase 1, with a few changes.  The biggest change is I am attempting the "doubles" routine.  That means that on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I have 2 workouts.  Doubles provides the following schedule:

M - Chest, Shoulders & Triceps & Abs Weights/Resistance PLUS 45 minutes of AM Cardio
T - Plyometrics
W - Biceps & Back & Abs Weights/Resistance PLUS 45 minutes of AM Cardio
Th - Kenpo kick boxing
F - Legs & Back & Abs Weights/Resistance PLUS 45 minutes of AM Cardio
Sat - Yoga - 90 minutes
Sun - Stretch for an hour

For three weeks, followed by a "recovery" week of:

M - Core Synergistics
T - Kenpo kick boxing
W - Yoga
Th - Stretch
F - Core Synergistics
S - Yoga
Sun - Stretch

As promised, I will keep a Monday "Funday Fitness" theme on the blog.  Let's see how we do...