Day 05 - Ab-ripper
Wasn’t feeling so good this morning when i woke up so opted for an extra hour sleep then just did ‘ab-ripper x’. Which by the way get easier every time i do it. Might do the Legs and back tonight.
Wasn’t feeling so good this morning when i woke up so opted for an extra hour sleep then just did ‘ab-ripper x’. Which by the way get easier every time i do it. Might do the Legs and back tonight.
I generally do kenpo on the thursday instead of yoga. I find that early in the morning my muscles are way to tight to do yoga. I can’t even touch the floor or bend properly so just do kenpo instead.
Though it’s not much of a hardcore workout compared to the other muscle workout days i find it pretty cool for working on my form for punches etc and doing drills in both left and right stance. And as i’m moving house soon so will be able to start doing this with my punch bag for a better workout.
Did some tabata sprints in the evening down my local running track. More on tabata later.
For some reason the deep swimmer press causes me some trouble. Not sure why but this is the only one that is really hard and causes me to loose form and struggle at about 6 reps (with 10kg). Gonna work on these over the weekends to see if i can improve them.
Still love my plyo x. In a nostalgic mood as i’m starting again. I remember my first plyo session well and a whole week of not being able to walk without a limp and the look of a man with rickets :). Now i’m busting out the session with maximum intensity, following along Tony and the crew no problem.
Feels good to improve.
Really starting to like this workout now. In the beginning i dreaded this everytime because i knew i couldn’t even do one pull-up and could only do about 5 push-ups. At the time i was 3/4 stone heavier and out of shape. Now i am doing 10 pull-ups each round and around 20+ push-ups.
What i do now is to do as many as physically possible until i literally can’t push or pull out another rep. This ensures that i get some nice aching shoulder and chest muscles the next day. Which seems to make me stronger each week..
Not sure what i was reading but today i came across something called Ketosis. Basically it’s where you reduce your carb intake so much that your body has to use fat to fuel your body and power your brain, but yet leaves your protein and muscle alone. This seems to be the perfect diet for loosing fat and building muscle (also known as a ketogenic diet).
So i’m now feeling pretty confident that this high protein low carb diet is ‘the one’. I’ve been on it for 2 days now so don’t think i’ve reached ketosis yet. I’ll update my progress over the following days.
After doing this already for 80 days i’ve discovered a load about food and nutrition that i thought i’d never know. You know when you see a nutritionist or trainer on tv and they talk about food and exercise - slowly i’m understanding that. Everyday it seems that i have another Eureka moment. I obviously don’t know too much though otherwise i’d be having better results but anyhow i’m gonna add some of my finding to this here blog.
What my latest realisation is - is that i’ve been eating too many carbs for my fitness level to burn off the last bit of fat (guessing so we shall see). So what i’m gonna do is basically what the P90X guide said in the very beginning (doh!) and go high protein, low carb.
So my new diet and fitness regime is basically this:
Not entirely sure if this is gonna be enough though, think it works out to 500Kcals of protein (125g) and the rest made up from carbs and fat, not sure the total yet. Will try it out for a while see whether i need to adjust it at all. It’s gonna be hard since it’s mainly a liquid diet. We’ll see how it goes, i’m thinking that i may need to add some meat and veg with the 21:00 shake.
Gonna start this up next monday instead of this one just past. Somehow managed to injure my right calf on sunday pushing a broken down car, so was out of action for plyo on tuesday. It’s better now but just gonna wait till monday so i can have a nice easy start date.
I just setup an amazon store where you can find all the equipment and supplement i’m using for my P90X - http://astore.amazon.co.uk/jasp9vo-21
This is what i have equipment wise :
And this is what i eat in addition to my diet
