P90X - Day 1

Workout:
Chest & Back
53 min.

Didn't sleep well last night. Had a lot of stuff on my mind, I guess. I was tired, but, just couldn't let go. I made the mistake of staying up to watch Jay Leno's "Headlines" segment. I think if I'd let myself go before that I might have been able to just fall asleep and stay asleep for the night.

Once I spent the time laughing about the Headlines, I was awake. And, then I just couldn't drift off ... even knowing that I had to get up at 6am!!

Took my car in for service this morning. A little past the time for 90,000 mile service, and really past the 60,000 mile timing belt ... so it was time for some preventative maintenance for the car. I'm going to have it paid off in another month ... I need it to keep running for a few more years!!

Then, because I was so tired, really dragging booty. I decided to take a nap ... today, I actually had difficulty getting up after my hour and a half nap. That is usually the perfect amount of time for me ... a little bit more or less and I'm groggy! But, increments of 45 min. seem to work well.

I did finally get my workout in. But, I made a deal with myself. If I did nothing else today, I was going to do Chest and Back. After I got the workout done, I had only about an hour or so left to get productive. So, I've deferred the Ab Ripper X for tomorrow. I can do it tomorrow with Plyometrics.

Between today and tomorrow, any movement I make will be difficult without great discomfort ... I love that feeling. I've been missing it.

Today I decided to do the workout a little different. Normally, I start out doing "regular-style" push-ups (on my toes) until failure, and then I drop to my knees and finish. I was reading in the book where Tony says to start out on your knees, and when you can do 12 reps, to get up on your toes.

So, just as an experiment to see where I am right now, in my fitness/strength, I decided to do all the push-ups on my knees (next week I'll do regular-style push-ups on the ones that I was able to do more than 12 ... and on the other ones, I'm going to work at getting to 12 ... or beyond). For the pull-ups I used my black band (it says "heavy") around my pull-up bar, and I stretched it as far back as I could, to add to the resistance.

Chest & Back:
Standard Push-Ups: 15 (knees); 14 (knees)
Wide Front Pull-Ups: 15 (black band); 12 (black band)
Military Push-Ups: 10 (knees); 10 (knees)
Reverse Grip Chin-Ups: 15 (black band); 15 (black band)
Wide Fly Push-Ups: 16 (knees); 15 (knees)
Closed Grip Overhand Pull-Ups: 15 (black); 12 (black)
Decline Push-Ups: 6; 1 (need to work more on these ... I used to be pretty good with declines)
Heavy Pants: 12, 15#; 12, 15#
Diamond Push-Ups: 9 (knees); 8 (pulled my fingers about 5 inches apart)
Lawnmowers: 12, 15#; 12, 15#
Dive-Bomber Push-Ups: 3; 3 (these were done on my feet, and I went under for the return ... like the guys were doing)
Back Flys: 5, 15#; 7, 15# (for the second set, I went into "heavy pants" position, but pulled my arms up like in flyes ... seemed to be a better position for me at this time, otherwise wouldn't have gotten much lift in my arms)

Tonight, I'm planning on getting to bed much earlier than last night. Hopefully I will be able to sleep. I've had no afternoon coffee or tea, so I'm hoping that whatever stimulus that kept me awake last night will stay away tonight. Actually, even with my nap today, I'm feeling pretty tired tonight (workouts will do that to me).

Plan for tomorrow is to get my grocery shopping done ... I need more fresh veggies and fruit. And, do Plyometrics and Ab Ripper X.

Goals:

1. Plyometrics. Ab Ripper X.
   
2. Eat 5-6 small meals every day.
   
3. Eat "clean".
   
4. Drink 6 bottles of water.
5. Stop eating at least 3 hours before bedtime.
6. Get enough sleep!!
   
7. Take my vitamins.

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