Day 4

Wow, YogaX was much tougher than I thought.  The first half was very hard to keep up.  My shoulders feel it.  The second half I was actually able to do a lot of the exercises and was much more flexible than I expected and I actually liked it.  I even sort of got close to some sembelence of Plow.  Nowhere near Crane, not in 60 seconds or even 60 minutes.  :)  The timing is tough, but I think I like Yoga as a nighttime routine, its really great at relaxing you.  I need to get back on mornings though, Day 5 is gonna be a nighttime routine too due to schedule. 

Day 3

Arms & Shoulders + AbRipperX.  Longer routines mean more pain to schedule.  I switched my schedule today and got up at 5:30 am.  Ouch.  Got some breakfast and waited about 20 mins and then got to work.  Hard routine, but much more able to keep up.  The strength routines are far more scalable since you control the weights.  Had to go way lighter than I would like on the flys.  Esp in the bonus round.  My shoulders were thrashed and I couldn't even get 10's up!  Was surprised though, used the 20's more than I originally thought.  My 13.5s are a bit low though.  I think I may go with offset weights on each end so I can make them 16's  Couple exercises where I couldn't use 20, but 13.5 seemed light.
AbRipperX was brutal.  I am not used to being this wasted when I start it.  V-up rollups were horrible today, did worse than usual on the split situps.  On the plus side I did better than normal on Mason Twists.  Was able to do 30 with one leg up at a time and then actually got 10 in with both legs up.  Still can't get within 6 inches of the floor though.  Improved leg climbs too.  I figured out I can straighten out my leg and still get almost the ankle with first grab.  I am about 2 inches shy of the toe though with the leg locked out.  Also realized that it helps immensely if you keep the off foot bent and on the ground.  Much more stable platform.


Day 2 ended up being not so great food wise as I had two meals out.  Pretty hard to get by with 1 serving of carbs in 2 restaurant meals.  Today will be 100% on plan though.

Day 2

Today was CardioX.  The good news is its only 46 mins long.  The bad news is it has more of those stupid Dreya rolls.  Can't keep up with the Yoga part yet, but I always had issues with that in Power 90 too.  Have a bunch of odd side/back muscle soreness from Core yesterday.  Tomorrow should be fun with a strength workout + Ab RipperX.  Lunch out with work today.  It was Mexican food so I ended up going with the Fajitas.  Seemed to be the easiest thing to figure out how to map into the points system.

Day 1

Started this morning.  Core Synergistics done.  Had the biggest issues with Sphynx pushups and stupid Dreya rolls.  When she does that up-spin-roll move I want to punch her in the face.  Got all my food stuff setup.  Goodbye carbs.  See you in 30 days.  :(  I am hoping I won't be horribly sore, I did 5 workouts last week and had a fair amount of soreness, we will see how I feel around wed/thurs time frame.  That will probably be the first hurdle.  Also its Yoga day on Thursday.  Ugh.

Starting data & fit test:
Height 5'9
Weight 252
BF 34%
Pushups max: 21
Pullups max: 0
Wall sit: 64 seconds
In/Out max: 33
Vertical Jump: 11"
Curls: 15reps @ 25 lbs
Flexibility: -1"