Phase 2 Update

I am almost finished with my second week of Phase 2 and need to update my posts. First and foremost - I am working 2 jobs. My first job starts at 6 am, and my second jod begins when I get off there and often runs until 6 or 7 pm. Needless to say I can get bogged down very easily. I am currently getting up at 3 am and try to start my workout by 3:30. I have not been doing Ab Ripper X - I know, I know... It's important. The plan is to add it in when I can but I don't have the energy at the end of the day. Eventually I will have a couple of afternoons each week off and plan to slide in a little ARX time then.
I just decided to switch teambeachbody coaches. Although I get a lot from reading Coach Wayne's posts and accessing all of the information on his site, I need constant interaction. I have been part of a closed group on Facebook and one of the guys in there has been very supportive. He is in the same "family" and Coach Wayne is his coach so I still benefit from all of the wisdom but also get to have the daily interaction.
I wanted to share my nutrition and supplementation regimine for now.

Workout time - 3am
PWO - Jack3d White Blue Raspberry
GNC Wheybolic 60 Chocolate Protein (1 scoop pre- and one scoop 30 minutes post)
Creatine Monohydrate - 5g (1/2 pre- and 1/2 post)
Endurox r4 - post 1 scoop
Glutamine - 5g

Breakfast - 7 am
100% egg whites (3/4 cup)
tomatoes/onions/jalapenos
5 oz canned chicken breast
Baby spinach

AM Snack
Life Choice High Protein bar (cheap wal mart)

Lunch
5 oz canned chicken breast
salad spritzer ranch 10 sprays
sweet relish
iceberg salad mix
spinach
rice cake

PM Snack
Life Choice High Protein Bar
Gold Standard Casein - 1 scoop (before bed)

Dinner
Tyson Chicken tenders - 8 oz
Frozen vegetables - 2 servings
Shelled Edamame - 1/2 cup

The plan is to replace my breakfast with a breakfast shake made with Chocolate Shakeology, PB2, Protein powder and, maybe, a packet of oatmeal.

Phase 2 Day 1

Chest Shoulders & Tri's - Wow! This workout put me in my place. After preparing for pushups and doing the first month of P90X, I had no idea this was gonna kick my butt so hard. The pushups in this DVD are so different than the ones I did in the first phase. The slow-motion and different handy
positions really challenged me.

Recovery week - Wednesday

Kenpo today In the middle of my recovery week. I was thinking yesterday - I took an actual rest day on Sunday for my off day. I am feeling it. I wish I had done X Stretch instead. I have been doing X Stretch on my off days for a couple of months even before I started The X "officially" and I can definitely tell that I missed it. Glad it comes around tomorrow in this week's schedule. I need it. I was reading a buddy's post yesterday and he posted thAt he had done X Stretch and I was sooooo jealous. Have a great day everyone. Keep pushing play.

A New Day

So... It's the last Legs & Back day for
Phase 1. Brought it today. I've had a couple of days of no work and lots of eating. Yesterday I did some yoga but not P90X yoga. I did a 20 minute podcast (yogadownload.com - 20 minute yoga sessions - Sun Salutations #1).
Today I pick back up. Legs & Back and Ab Ripper X - 77 minutes and 1058 calories. Gonna eat my fat shredder diet today. I adjusted myfitnesspal to coincide with my goals. Time to buckle down.

Getting caught up

Week 3 so far - today is Wednesday. I have done Chest & Back and Plyo X along with today's Shoulders & Arms. I won't see these strength workouts until phase 3 now. I pushed myself to up the weights or reps on every exercise. There are still a couple that just burn me out. And that is good. I'm excited to see what it's like when I come back after a month.
I made it all the way through Plyo yesterday w/o the pause button. I had to use it today to change weights but other than that I pushed through this too.
I will be starting a new job in a couple of weeks that starts at 6:00 am. I will still be working my other job too plus school starts next week. A lot on my plate. I have decided to get up another hour early and do the hour workouts and figure out how to fit ARX into the rest of the day. I have the P90X app and can actually do ARX anywhere I have room to sit down for 15 minutes. Keep pushing play.

Week 2 - P90X

Fourteen days behind me. I have done two weeks of the P90X Extreem Home Fitness program. Here are my reactions this week:

Ab Ripper X - Still doing this first and doing all of the reps. I made it through the first three exercises without pausing and can go to 15 on most exercises before I finally have to hit pause. I have tried to lift my legs during crunchy-frog and mason twist, but have had a little more trouble with these. Since this upcoming week will be the end of the first cycle and I will not do ARX during the recovery week that is scheduled for week 4, I will work even more intently on performing as many crunchy-frogs as I can and will lift one leg during mason twist.

Chest & Back - did 12 of all of the push-up exercises. This week 15 is the goal.

Yoga X - did the first 45 minutes of asanas and the last 15 minutes of stretch and savanana and the ohms. The goal this week is to skip the balance and the leg stretches and do the yoga belly 7 plus the end that I did last week.

Kenpo X - biggest problem of the week! I still can't figure out the star blocks. They get me so flustered that I stand there bewildered while they are working.

I wish that I had somewhere to mount a pull-up bar. The bands are ok. I can increase the resistance, but for the cost of increasing the resistance I can buy a cheap bar. I will only be able to get so far with the bands even with more resistance. Eventually the resistance will be more than i weigh and I will not be able to pull it towards me. Looking forward to the final "work" week of the first training block. I want to weigh but have decided to wait until I have completed the entire phase including the recovery week and weigh/measure/take pictures at the 30 day mark. Keep pushing play.

Day 13? - P90X - Kenpo X

Kenpo X - punching, kicking, twisting, blocking, sweating... Actual DNA removal. Feel like I did better this morning. Still not bringing it very hard during the breaks (I'm using them to cooldown a little - I have read that towards the end of the program people begin to use the breaks to make sure they are getting their HR's up). I'm also still completely baffled by the star blocks - I will have to watch the sometime this week and try to wrap my head around it. Other than that it was a great workout. I burned 633 calories which seems low to me, but I have to remember that the warm-up is long and focused on getting limber not on getting the HR up so there is really only a little over 40 minutes of effort. GREAT way to start a Saturday. Keep pushing play!

Day 12 - Legs & Back

Today I did ARX from the iPhone app and can tell that it is easier - primarily because I can change Fifer Scissors anytime I want. The app says to hold for 2 seconds then change. On the video Tony tells me when to change. That makes it harder.
Legs & Back kicked me good. Sneaky lunges are SUPER difficult. Burned 175 for ARX and 845 for L&B.

Namaste - Yoga X and Sharms

Yesterday I did Shoulders & Arms + ARX. Today was my second attempt at Yoga X. I made it through the first 45 minutes of moving asanas and the final stretching. I currently struggle with the Warrior 3/Half Moon series. But that will come. Took me a little over an hour to do what I did this morning. Tomorrow - Legs & Back + ARX. Need help with the wall squats.