Such a relaxing and beautiful Sunday. The color of the woods behind our back yard started to change. When we sat outside eating breakfast this morning, plenty of sun shine, no bugs, no flies, no bees... no sound of cars, not people walking by, no dogs' barking ... just light wind.
We almost chose not to do the stretch again, since it is optional. But since my back is bugging me these past few days, I thought stretching would do some good. I hated to go into the basement to workout, but now we are done, I am glad we did it.
We finished 2 weeks of P90X.
One thing about the cardio workout with P90x, it always asks you to wear a heart monitor and kept asking if you are making sure to keep your heart rate in the zone. We spend some time to learn about Heart Rate Zone. Basically, use 220 minus your age, that's your max heart rate. The fat burning zone is at 60%-70% range (zone 2). Once you go above that, since your intake of oxygen can't catch up with the burning of calories, your body start to search for sugar and protein to burn, (you body needs oxygen in order to burn fat), therefore the burning from fat decreases. So, if your goal is to burn fat for the first 4 weeks of P90X, make sure to keep your heart rate at zone 2 or 3 (60% - 80% of your max heart rate). However, by allowing your heart rate get into zone 4 (80% - 90%), you could help build the size, strength and efficiency of your heart, and eventually increase your fat burning zone range. There is a good article to read about it if you are interest in it:
http://www.club540.com/forum/fitness-discussion/heart-rate-zone-training
Train harder and train smarter.
Nutrition:
Breakfast: breakfast burrito ( mine had no potatoes, just eggs and beans and onions and bell peppers)
Lunch/snack: Protein Shake
Snack: Greek yogurt
Dinner: fish
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