1st day of P90x

wow, it was intense to get ready. We (my hubby and I) just finished the Insanity and took the last week off ... and ... here we are! P90X.

I want to start this blog, not sure if anybody would ever read it. You probably have already detected some accent from my writing, I promise you, that's only because English is not my first language, I am not illiterate. I have my advanced degree with 18+ years of schooling, had my fair share of life adventures ... and here I am, my new adventure - P90x.

I had come across lots of blogs regarding to P90x. I really poured my heart and soul in this, from learning the workout to learning the diet.  If what I posted here can help one person or inspire one soul, I will be happy!

... and did I tell you that I never wrote a blog before? I am not sure how this works, really :-)


So, up to this point -

We finished our Insanity on 9/10. I lost 6lbs and 10% of body fat. (I started at 134lb @ 5"7, I am 128lb and still 5"7). I spent a whole week to get myself familiar with the diet part of the program. If I say I read it 2-3 times, I am not kidding. It can be confusing, but believe me, it gets easier. There is a very good blog out there that you can check out: myp90xnutritionplan.com, the only thing is that it seems that the lady quit posting since the summer of this year - her husband must had finished his program, and she decided to fold.

I have read a lot about the nutrition plan. I think the best approach for me would be to get myself grasp the concept of portion control, and understand how to measure the portions for my meals. The advantage for that is that I then can create my own recipes, and use my own food and ingredient.

We got up at 5:45 this morning to start our workout at 6. According to the nutrition plan, we suppose to drink water 2 hrs before the workout, that did not happen, but we did hydrate ourselves as soon as we were up this morning. (oh, here is another thing I started a few months back, even when I was still on the road travel with my job: at 6a-7a time frame, I mix 1Tsp honey, 1Tsp dark vinegar, 4 oz water (room temperature) and stir to mix well, drink. This is my secrete Chinese remedy for soothing your digesting system, especially if you are irregular, cheaper than those Activia (too lazy to check the spelling)yogurt, and works wonder)

Day 1 is Chest/Back/Abs. I was using band and my hubby was using the flex machine. I think because my upper body is so weak, the push ups and pull downs are more of a work for my arms instead of my chest and back, i.e. I could not get down too deep on push ups, therefore, my chest and back didn't feels like got much of a workout. I will wait a few days to see which area will be hurting to tell you which muscles I worked on (geeez Jun, get your act together, will you!)

I had mushroom omelet for level I, phase I (1P, 1/2D, 1V)+12oz water. Yuk! I cooked Oatmeal for my hubby, add 1Tsp protein powder and 1/2 oz raisins (1C, 1/2P, 1/2F). I am going to make the bars instead of buying them. Got the recipes from the site I mentioned above. If it tasted good, I will post it here.

For the recover drink. We simply used the breakfast carnation from Nestle, with 8oz almond milk. Since I can only have one portion of carb, I am going to save it for dinner :-( (rice baby, rice!)

Better get some real work done now.