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.

I started Phase II and with it Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, a new px90 workout. I did stellar if you ask me. I ate a solid lunch before hand and slipped in a bit of p90x recovery drink into my water during my workout. This definitely helped out. Beyond that I brought it hard core. After last week recovering I wanted an opportunity to flex my muscles and feel the pain. I purchased the p90x pushup bars recently as I heard good things. Up until now I’ve been using weights as a pushup stand substitute. This has kept the pressure off my wrists but hasn’t really given me a deep range of motion. The push up stands give me a super deep range of motion. With phase II in full effect and armed with pushup stands I’m really looking forward to lies ahead. I recommend picking up some pushup stands if you haven’t already. Good luck guys, and keep bringing it.

I’m looking forward to next week to get back into the pushups, pullups and arm training. I have a lot of stamina and strength I want to test out in the second phase of this. Oh, so Stretch X or rest can be done on your 7th day. I’m considering doing Stretch X (perhaps abridged) in place of my rest day. It’s a low key workout that keeps you active but not sweaty and sore.

I have to go, my phone is ringing.

Through out the workout I went back and forth between 3, 1 and no weights where applicable. I urge all that want to up the ante to use weights… light weights please, you’ll feel this on 3 or less. 

On a side note, I feel great. I noticed I am more limber, have greater control over my balance and stamina is up. It’s amazing that I’m almost a third through.

So last Thursday I went to the meeting. They really should split the meeting up into two parts. Part 1: General membership meeting. Intermission. Part 2: New member meeting. I don’t think I’ll ever attend another meeting because half the time it will be 100% review. If I’m a member for 10 years do I really need to hear what the pistol club is every single month.

By the time I got home Thursday night I was too shot to do 1.5 hours of Yoga X. So I skipped it with good intentions to do it the following morning and legs and back Friday night. The next morning cameand I was swamped with work and nothing got done. I mean no Yoga X or Legs and Back. Skipping two days is usually when I stop the program. But I persevered. 

Saturday morning I drove back to the rifle range for the new member orientation (tour and safety lecture). It was pouring rain. The tour in the pouring rain wasn’t the most appealing. The tour could have lasted 10 minutes but it turned into 72. After we were given our membership cards everybody took off except 3 of us. One of the new members I met the previous Thursday brought his GSG-5 with him. It’s basically an MP5 that takes 22 rounds. This makes it look cool but very cheap to shoot.

After an hour or so shooting that, trying to get the red-dot scope sighted I left to meet a friend for a movie and a few drinks. Knowing I had a dinner party to attend that night I was getting scared that I might not have a chance to do my favorite workout, Kenpo X… I didn’t. After my dinner party and playing cards with the flying rat pack I headed home around 11pm to do Yoga X. Yup you heard right. I did Yoga X from 1130 – 1am. This left me feeling exhilarated… keeping me awake until 430am.

The next day I planned on doing massive amounts of laundry and reading. That didn’t happen. I drove up to my friend Tom’s house. I did 2 loads of laundry and Kenpo X with him. Played some video games (lego starwars) with his son, ate dinner and returned home.

So I really only missed Legs and Back last week. Not so bad, considering 3 px90 workouts looked as though they would be missed. Sadly though I skipped yesterday’s workout. I had to pick my brother and Aunt up at the airport and drive them to their respective houses. 

Today I did Core synergistics. I’m on my 4th week, recovery week. It was a great workout. I did well and enjoyed myself. I’m a skinny guy but I’m noticing some changes. Most of the changes aren’t visual though, they are strength and an overall feeling of well being.

Ok, I can’t write any more. I need to go eat. Bye!