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P90X Day 70 – legs and back
Jul 17th
Legs and back is one workout I perform quite well at. My legs are strong since I cycle to and from work every day with the occasional long distance cycle. Yesterday went well as I performed the moves with very good form. My calf muscles are still feeling the punishment though.
Today is day 71 with Kenpo X with a day off work tomorrow and P90X being a rest day but may go out for a long cycle.
Watched Inception last night at the cinema. Incredible film and highly complex. Leonardo De Caprio is an awesome actor and as ever fails to disappoint.
P90X Day 69 – Yoga X
Jul 12th
Yoga X city. The mother………actually not the mother of all workouts but an intense one to say the least. I’ve said it before and I will say it yet again that Yoga X is a killer workout! Luckily I performed quite well. My cousin was watching some of the initial moves and thought it looked easy until I asked him to perform the same move upon which he soon realised not to mess with Yoga. I have deep veneration for Yoga it is a class workout for everyone. Pretty much everybody can stay healthy by doing Yoga alone! It is the key to strength, balance, coordination, flexibility all in one with muscle toning and the ability to blast fat deposits in tight areas.
P90X Day 68 – Shoulders and Arms
Jul 11th
Shoulders and arms just like Tony says, is a great workout because it’s shoulders / bis / tris / shoulders / bis / tris and you get to know what you’re made of by round two of each exercise. Today had been a great day really. A decent performance in P90X and then a great experience witnessing the football world cup final 2010 with Netherlands vs Spain. It was an intense match which led to both teams scoring nil goals by full time. That was of course until Spain scored a tremendous goal just at the end of the 30 minutes extra time. It was time well needed if anyone was going to break free from the paradigm. I wonderful spectacle witnessed live thanks to the wonders of the internet as I sat talking to my Fiance over 4000 miles away and watching the football live at the same time.
I do wonder where technology will take us in the next 20 years or so.
P90X Day 67 – Plyometrics
Jul 10th
Lots of calories burned with Plyometrics. 920kcal registered on the heart rate monitor. Performed quite well despite the really big mess up with skipped days etc. I am now back on track though and nothing touches my gut but quality food.
I’ve had a week off work and it’s been quite a pleasant one and more importantly a spiritual one. Being a religious individual, the week off presented opportunities to meet particular people and hopefully receive blessings. It has also given me good time to spend with the family, reflect on the persecution of my brothers of the same faith in Pakistan and allowed me to get back out on my road bike again as I cycled 13 miles through pleasant roads and scenic views.
Not sure what cell phone you guys reading this blog have but I have had my HTC Desire for just under 3 weeks and I am seriously loving. It runs on Google’s Android operating system and the specs are great!
Here’s a cool pic of it sat in a desk dock I bought separately:
HTC Desire
For more information on the phone visit http://www.htc.com/uk/product/desire/overview.html
P90X Day 65 and 66–World Cup Football fun and sunny days
Jun 27th
Kenpo X went very well on day 65 and I managed to maintain decent form. My flexibility has improved and I have overcome a problem I had with my left hamstring that really troubled me during high kicks. It seems to have been ironed out.
Although I have been keeping on track with P90X, I have derailed when it comes to consistency. As such I have missed a few days between workouts and it has clearly shown today as I pushed through chest and back, although in good form I felt very nauseas and depleted of glycogen. This is the result of not sticking to a strict diet, sleeping on time and not hydrating properly. I had to skip Ab Ripper X at the end of today’s workout as I just couldn’t do it. Tomorrow is day 67 and I will ensure I get back on track. P90X really is a mental test too.
To those that pull it off without deviating, hats off I say!
Recently World Cup Football 2010 has been taking place. England got knocked out of the final 16 today by Germany. It is said that England hopes to write a new chapter in its football history but they did not expect to write a chapter so dejecting as to be defeated by a crushing 4-1. If I were a betting man I would have had a small fortune by now.
I recently went to Brean (a costal point) with the family and had a blast. The weather was great and I managed to get a good picture too. Check it out! Here’s me with my new Oakley Radar sunglasses. They are awesome indeed!
P90X Day 62, 63, 64. Lazy blog update.
Jun 19th
Posting this blog update from my HTC Desire. What an awesome phone it is.
I’ve been lazy posting updates on my blog but I can say the past P90X days have gone well although yesterday I had to stop three quarters of the way through as I had visitors whom came to congratulate me on my engagement. As a result I missed AB Ripper X but I will combine it into tonight’s workout which I think is Kenpo X.
The past week has been really busy for me with P90X being.scattered as I have a cousin over from Pakistan and we’ve been taking him around showing the town etc.
This is an interesting point for some of you reading this and I have no doubt many of you already know this as do I but I challenged my cousin to an arm wrestle and lost very quickly. He is 19 and I am 26 I workout and keep fit but he doesn’t work out at all however he is naturally bigger in size compared to me and it goes to show the amount of mass ratio difference. I am naturally smaller. Apart from his arm wrestle he is very weak in all other areas as his experience on my dumbells proved this. So if you lose an arm wrestling match don’t fret and keep pushing play.
P90X Day 61 – Plyometrics
Jun 7th
So day 61 out of the way and 900kcal burned. Plyometrics really is the mother of all workouts though I didn’t do bad at all considering I’ve had a week off from any kind of high intensity aerobic activity. Always amazing how much P90X makes you sweat. The first 10 minutes don’t seem bad and you feel like you can blast your way through it then come the next 5 to 10 minutes and the moves get tougher and you soon realise to manage self flattering.
I’ve got a cousin coming over from Pakistan tomorrow. It’s his first time in the UK and he is very excited to visit England. I hope his journey goes well as 8 hours on a plane can be very mind numbing.
And here are my day 60 pictures compared to the others. Sorry about the back pic of day 32. Picture was taken by a friend with the wrong camera lens and not enough room to fit in the arms so I apologise.
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And there you have it, all the pictures. Not a huge difference between day 32 and day 60 in the pictures taken side on but you can see a difference in definition from the front and back. The front really shows the size increase in muscle. I have to admit that since day 15 I haven’t been as strict with my diet so I must now really concentrate on what goes in my system if I am to look great by the end of P90X.
P90X Day 60 – Back from Pakistan and into phase 3!
Jun 3rd
Well it’s been a little over a week since I have been able to post a blog update. My time in Pakistan was incredible. I went over to meet my fiance and have a small ceremony, sort of a pre-wedding thing. The temperatures were through the roof and hot enough to fry an egg on pretty much any surface. I got to see a lot and managed to befriend many people as well maintain a decent relationship with the family there. Although it was only 8 days it felt long and I definitely needed the break from the norm.
No exercise took place there really apart from the consecutive 4 days of swimming in the nearby stream. The rest week did me some real good though. I just whacked out a load of push-ups and pull-ups with chest and back and noticed an increase in endurance which is great! Usually near the end of round two during chest and back I tweak a lot but this time I didn’t and still pumped out 15 reps of at the last few exercises as opposed to not being able to do them at all.
Mehndi night
That’s a picture of me wearing traditional clothes worn during the Mehndi or Hena/Henna night before a wedding.
What a sword!
One of many swords available at the souvenir shop just outside the Lahore Fort built by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the 1500s.
Off abroad for 8 days.
May 20th
No P90X in the past couple of days as taking it easy. I have an 8 hour flight due for Pakistan on Saturday 22nd May. I am in for quite a shocker too. The temperature in Pakistan (at least where I am going) is around 50°C (that’s 122 degrees Fahrenheit)! I am going to melt! I have been warned not to go outside during the day as it is too dangerous. I’ve never experienced temperatures that hot before so it will be interesting as well as scary at the same time.
So what about exercise? Well my week in Pakistan will be considered my rest week. I won’t be able to perform P90X whilst over there but will try and squeeze in a few Ab Ripper X sessions and find a bar suitable for pull-ups. I love pull-ups! This is all of course if the heat allows me to. I could just end up passing out in such hot conditions. Hydration will be very important and fat loss will occur. Many calories are expected to be burnt in such heat. It’s hard to eat a lot in such hot conditions but I will try and nibble low fat snacks throughout the day to keep my BMR going and make sure my metabolic rate doesn’t slow down and re-adjust.
I will try to post some blog updates from my mobile phone with perhaps a few pictures all depending on how good my internet connection will be. I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures with my camera and gets some video clips of the summertime madness.
Let’s take a look at the forecast for Lahore for the next week or so shall we?
Holy cow >> http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/PKXX0011
P90X Day 56 – Italian food and biceps
May 17th
Went out earlier with work colleagues for some Italian food courtesy of a camera manufacturer I can’t mention here but I think I may have consumed too much. Felt really lazy after the meal. There goes the portion plan out the window! Anyhow, got back and did back and biceps plus Ab Ripper X. I didn’t perform that great but that’s perhaps because my body was still recovering from that punishing cycle yesterday. Towards the end of today’s workout I bonked on the last few exercises and only managed 6 pull-ups on the max reps move and to think pull-ups are my strong point.
Well, bed time!
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