When you take a break from anything expect going back to NOT be a walk in the park. Plyo killed me today, but if you snowboard or are starting like me, this workout is great. Snowboarding is about leg stamina, guess what, plyometrics is about the same thing. The run stance squats with the jump on the 4th are my favorite in regards to helping out snowboarding. It’s always nice when you can find a “real world” application to the in home/school/office work you’re performing. Thanks plyo for making my workouts meaningful.

Hello all.

Work, social and sickness have been the theme for the past 2 weeks keeping me from my px90 workout. I haven’t been sick, but everybody around me has been. I’m one of those new-age believers that thinking positive and never saying the words “I feel sick” or “I am getting sick” or “I am sick” will keep you from getting sick. I firmly believe (and I have 4 years experience) that if you delete these phrases from your daily life you will not get the seasonal cold/flu. If you do get sick you’ll never know because you’re never said “I am sick”. So what will happen… You’ll drink more water and OJ, you’ll be a little more tired, you’ll be weary to be around sick people and those that use the afore mentioned phrases. But you won’t get sick. So for the past 2 weeks I’ve been upping my immunity and battling other peoples sickness. Now that my working / social environment is healing my body can go back to DEFCON 5.

I’m restarting week 6 today, even though I’m sore as hell from snowboarding on Saturday. Yay me, I went boarding for the first time at Stratton Mt. At first I couldn’t even stand up, but by my last run I was able to make it down the largest bunny hill without falling. I was told by the two friends I went with that I did very well for my first day. Amazingly it isn’t my legs that are sore, it’s my neck, fore arms and wrists. I’m guessing that every time I fell I was bracing my neck (as to not hit my head… which i didn’t). The fore arms and wrists make sense, because every time I fell backwards I landing on my hands, then my ass (which is also very sore). My fore arms are rock solid and painful.

So I asked my mom for a pair of the Sport 5.0 PowerBlocks. As stated before, I need to buy 25 and 30lb dumb bells. Rather then spending 100 bucks on those, only to clutter my living room even more, which I don’t want to do, I decided to cash in my Christmas present. The PowerBlock is 150 cheaper than the bowflex dumbells. I’ll be sure to give a full review of these when I get them. I’m a little nervous that my weights will now be squares, but I guess weights are weights. I’m pretty excited to be able to get rid of my 5, 10, 15, 20 X 2 weights. That’s 8 weights I no longer have to  store or lug around when I move. They should be arriving soon, I hope this week.

Hello everybody. Just finished part 1 of Back and Biceps. Part 1 as in not ab ripper x. I’m going to sit for a moment, collect myself and then do abs while watching some news. At this point I’ve got abs memorized and doing that workout while watching TV is so much more rewarding. 

I pretty much used 20lb weights for all my biceps exercises, I’m in need of some 25lb weights. Why are weights so expensive? Aren’t they made out of a non-precious metal. I mean a dollar a pound seems ridiculous.

2nd week in a row where I couldn’t get a fraction of one of these exercises. My arm will snap in half if I attempt to go any further than the quarter inch I’m moving now. As for the rest of my workout… Great Job! Half way through I got my “I want to punch a hole through the wall” feeling. Muscles tight, adrenaline pumping, oxygen flowing in my veins. I ate nearly a can of tuna fish before working out. I get weird when I eat fish. I think that type of protein surges to my brain rendering me somewhat mentally helpless yet physically amped. This is my 6th week and I’m going strong. Numbers and strength is up and general health is much better.

Hola people, I did Kenpo X last night with weights again. I used 3lbs for the first 20 minutes, by the time I got to claw, drag, punch my arms were dead. I downgraded to 1lb weights for the rest of the workout… wait I lied I did the 100 vertical punches with no weights which was an absolute breeze. My arms and back do not hurt at all today. So that means it only 2 weeks of using weights on Kenpo X to feel fine the subsequent day. Next week I’ll try to push through and use the 3lb weights the ENTIRE time. Hopefully I’ll feel some burn after that. Today is Chest and Triceps, which I’ll get to early this afternoon. I’ll report back after I complete it.