Matt's P90X Review: Day 2 is in the books - Plyometrics

Yesterday (day2) I did Plyometrics in my office during my lunch hr. Since it has been a while between my last round and this round I now realize that I had been dogging it. Doing a workout here and there with a day or two in between in no way compares to doing ARX, Chest & Back one day and Plyo the next. Not if you are really giving each workout 110%. Today I am feeling it everywhere! As I got up to refill my water bottle I was reminded again that I really pushed it to the limit the last two days.

This in no way will be used as an excuse not to give 110% today. Although; as sore as my legs are; the thought of doing in and outs and bicycles is not very exciting right now.

So, today it will be ARX here at the office and then Shoulders and Arms when I get home.

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Matt's P90X Review: Day 1 is in the books - Chest & Back + ARX

Day one of P90X is in the books. I did ab ripper X during my lunch hour at the office and Chest & Back when I got home at 5. Boy by the time I get to the second set of Diamond push ups I am spent. I was a real challenge to finish. Once I was done it was time for my favorite part of the workouts The P90X recovery drink. If you are doing P90X and have not tried the recovery drink I suggest you stop what you are doing and click HERE to order a tub. Not only does it give your body everything it needs after a tough workout, it tastes great!

I took day 1 pictures tonight and I weigh in at 167. I am not really concerned about the weight this time around as I really don't think I need to lose any more. I just need to move it around. From fat to muscle. Well that is the plan anyway.

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Matt's P90X Review: Ready to Start

My workout area is set, my meals are planned and I am pumped up and ready to start!

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Matt's P90X Review: Cleaning up

Yeah, I know I said I would be out in the garage cleaning and straightening up. But I have actually spent the morning cleaning out my closets. I took all of my 38 waist pants out a while back and put them in the closet in the spare bedroom. But since then I have gone through 36's and 34's. I need room for the 32's now. So today I bagged up 22 pair of 38's and 6 pair of 36's. I know I will never see those sizes again. I moved all of the 34's up to the spare room. Not that I think I will see that size again, but I just can't give them away yet.

I am sending the pants to a friend up north. When I moved to FL he and I were best buds and about the same size. As I have been dropping sizes, lets just say he has not. I think he could do great things with P90X. Just need to get him started.

The rest of the clothes I will give away to charity. That's 20 Golf shirts and 10 Dress shirts. I still have to go through my casual shirts, and I have a ton of T-shirts that will become car wash rags.

It's nice to have some room in the closet again.

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Matt's P90X Review: My P90X workout area.

Monday night will be day one of Round 2. Before I can do a proper workout, I need to clean up a little. Since my Gym doubles as a Garage, things get out of control pretty quick. The kids are great at tracking dirt, grass and whatever else they happen upon onto our mats. They are also pretty good at getting toys out and leaving them all over. So tomorrow morning I will be out there sweeping and straightening up.

So, what is my setup like you ask? Well even if you didn't ask, I'm going to tell you. I bought two packs of mats that lock together at Sam's Club. They are multiple color squares when you put them together. I did not want it to look like a day care so I put them all down upside down. Now I have a nice 8'X8' area to workout on. They may not look to thick but they make a world of difference when doing Plyo. I have done plyo on a concrete floor and I can tell you I much rather my padding.

I have a barstool, dumbbells, a three foot step ladder that I use instead of a chair and a pull-up station that I bought at a yard sale for $50. I picked up a small DVD player for about $25 and pulled a 13inch color TV out of the back of a closet. The sound on the TV does not work, so I grabbed the "Boombox" that I got with my first satellite radio. I pump the sound through that since the receiver no longer works. Yes I would love to have a large flat screen out there with surround sound, but I can't see how it would make a difference in how many pushups I can do.

Next time I will go over the BeachBody Products that I use.

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Matt's P90X Review: Gotta Do Something!

Back in April of '06' I was still very much in denial about how much weight I had put on. Some of my friends and family would make a comment here and there about it, but I just assured myself it was just in fun. In this picture that my wife took you can see that I am goofing off and have no idea how bad I really looked. It's the old, "Their laughing with me; not at me; Right?

You see a picture like that and it is a wake-up call.


Well after seeing this picture I knew I had to do something. I just didn't know what, so I decided to record my stats.
Weight 220
Chest 41"
Belly 43"
Hips 44.5"

Fast forward about a year and I still hadn't done anything, but I still had the paper with the stats. Great plan so far......not!

When you buy the P90X program one of the things it comes with is a guide that describes the workouts and tells you what to do and when to do it. It also tells you to take measurements and photos before you start. I guess I was ahead of the game.

And to think, I was stuffing all of that into size 38 pants because I refused to believe I needed 40's.

Well here I am. Two years later a lot happier and a lot healthier! I have more energy now then I ever did. I actually take my shirt off at the beach now.

I'll post more later but before I go, here are my current stats.
Weight 167
Chest 37"
Belly 34.5"
Hips 39"

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Matt's P90X Review: How it Started

Hi, my name is Matt.
I am a Software Engineer. In general, Software Engineers are not known for their physical fitness. Most of us sit in front of a computer 8 plus hours a day at work and then go home and get online.

I had fallen into that routine. I was 220 lbs and growing.

I decided I needed to lose some weight. I changed my eating habits and started riding my bike. I lost 40 lbs over the course of a year.

Riding the bike was a great way to lose the weight. I would ride in the Florida heat everyday on my lunch hour. I was getting the exercise I needed and I wasn't eating greasy fried foods.

Yes I was losing the weight, but not getting the definition I wanted. Enter P90X

I was getting ready for work one morning and saw the P90X infomercial. What caught my attention was the fact that they weren't trying to sell me a gadget. What they were selling was a workout routine. The exercises they were doing looked tough and boy were there a lot of them. They basically said, "You want results? Then you have to work hard." That is about as simple as it gets. This program shows you exactly what it takes to get the results you want.

So that is how I got started. I ordered it, did it and plan on doing it again.

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Matt
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