P90X

[Dave Gray]

Last Friday - Core Synergystics....not too bad.

--- START PHASE 3 (I can eat carbs, plus I have to increase weight and push myself.)

Monday was a bitch -- Chest and Back + Ab Ripper.  I hit it hard and got tired and I'm even kinda sore, which I haven't been for a while.  By the time abs came around, I was almost out of gas.  I could tell, though, that I'm stronger.  Writing your stuff down lets you compare to what you did before.  I'm lifting more and doing more pushups, and it's not nearly as hard.

Today was plyometrics.   I thought it would be easy, since it's the same thing from when we started, but it was not at all.  I think that when you start getting better, you do your exercises deeper, cleaner, and better, and it ends up gassing you the same.

Today was plyometrics.

[Dave Gray]

Today was biceps, triceps, and shoulders.  I wasn't feeling well this morning.  I was a little bit nauseous waking up today.  I pushed through the workout, including increasing weight.  Most of the weights I was using the last time I did this exercise were 15 pounds.  ...so to increase the weight, the next step up is 20 pounds, which is a 25% increase.  That's a lot.  I was totally burned out after that + the ab ripper.  I was gagging afterwards.  Now I'm working, but I feel like total crap and may have to go home.

[Dave Gray]

Yoga today.  I'm improving, able to now to push-ups in between a few of the motions.  Parts still suck and I constantly fall out and have to come back in.  This particular workout makes me sweat more than anything else we do.  It's getting easier.

I'm eating carbs now, too.

[badger6]

Well, the time has come  My 90 days is up and headed to St Augustine Saturday @ 2am. I guess that I have to take a picture tomorrow. I didn't quite reach my goal but I'm happy with the results. I'm about 1-1.5 % body fat percentage away from 9% where I wanted to be. That would put me @ around 10-10.5 % right now. It's all lower abs below the belly button and lower back love handle area. I'll take a pic or 2 tomorrow to go with my 30 and 60 day pics. I'll try to get them up in the next few days.

Someone give me a random 5 digit number.

BTW Dave how do you do the side by side pics like you posted earlier in the thread ?

[Dave Gray]

I did the side by side pics with Photoshop, using simple crop techniques.  If you don't know how to do it, you can email me your photos and I'll make one for you. 

d a v e g r a y@thedolphinsmakemecry.com (no spaces)

[badger6]

I did the side by side pics with Photoshop, using simple crop techniques.  If you don't know how to do it, you can email me your photos and I'll make one for you. 

d a v e g r a y@thedolphinsmakemecry.com (no spaces)

EDIT - Pics sent Dave. Sorry about the suck ass cell phone quality. Anyhow even though I didn't hit my goal I'm kinda happy with the results. Not bad for almost 40 years old I guess. I didn't want to post the before pic, ha ha. It looks worse on the camera that I remember. Anyhow, I plan to continue to try to get as low body fat as possible thru the end of August or September. Then I'm gonna try to do a clean bulk for 3-4 months and re evaluate. What muscle groups do you guys think I need to work on ? My tris, bis, shoulders, lats, traps, all seem to be responding and growing pretty good even while cutting. My pecs have grown but they still kinda suck. I hope it's not genetic. Kinda like Sylvester Stalone vs Arnold Swartzanager. If you saw Sylvester by himself he looks big, but put him next to the terminator and you can tell the genetic difference in the pecs. I think I'm doomed to always have smaller flatter pecs, ha ha. Vacation time, I gotta run.......................... ..

[Dave Gray]

Didn't work out this morning -- gotta do it after work.  Here are updated pics, after week 9.

[Dave Gray]

Monday - after work - Chest, Shoulders, Tris.  ..brutal, and I kept the intense weight.  We had a 3rd person working out with us, so it kinda kept me motivated, watching her struggle with the new exercises.

Tuesday was Plyo - I had a crap day all around.  I overslept, I forgot the right stuff for work and had to go home, and was just out of it, mentally.  I did the workout, but didn't push it.

Wednesday - Back and Biceps -  I had another late night, plus a bad day yesterday and weight increases before then, so I decided to not increase today.  I did the same weight amount from 2 weeks ago (the last time I did this same workout).  It was much, much easier, which shows improvement, I guess.  I did increase the number of reps when it was easy, but I wrote it down.  I do this again in 2 weeks, where I'll push myself again. 

[badger6]

Hey Dave, did you ever get those 3 pics I emailed to you to do the side by side thing ?

[Dave Gray]

Here are badger's pictures:

[Dave Gray]

Today was yoga.  Good report.  I did very well and was able to finally do crane, the pose where I previously fell on my head, as well as some wheel, which I've been working towards.  I still have trouble with the one-legged balance postures, but I'm seeing progress.

I had a rough few days with food, eating more crap than I should, especially since I kept having birthday cake(s) show up around me.  Even still, I have dropped a belt loop size today.  I feel good.

[Dave Gray]

I think I'm hitting some kind of mental wall.  It's really hard to get motivated for me right now, and I'm very close to the end.

Monday -- I missed work due to some personal crap with my new place (the city mixed up our bills).  By the time I took care of it, half the day was over.  Anyway, I didn't go in afterwards to work out.

Tuesday -- We had a work picnic on Sunday and we played a bunch of games -- volleyball, kickball, basketball, whiffleball, threw the football, etc.  I was sore, despite having worked out a lot and played kickball regularly.  I guess it's just muscles I haven't been using the same way.  Anyway, for Plyometrics on Tuesday, my knees were really sore and the workout was very straining on them.

Today (Wednesday) -- Arms and Shoulders -- I tried to match myself from the last time + I increased weight and reps in some places.  It's getting very hard.  I pushed myself and had a tough go of it.  By the time we got to abs, I was pretty spent and had trouble getting it together.

[Pats2006]

Dave looking good bro.. P90X deff was for you..

and Badger dam.. getting shredded huh.. whats your routine.. sorry dave dont want to hijack your thread..

[Dave Gray]

Today was yoga.  I did pretty well today.  Two guys came in while we were working out and did some cardio, but then they dipped out.

[badger6]

Dave looking good bro.. P90X deff was for you..

and Badger dam.. getting shredded huh.. whats your routine.. sorry dave dont want to hijack your thread..

It really depends on which picture you are talking about. My routine really didn't change much except for switching up different exercises every couple weeks. The main thing that I changed up on was calories and how much cardio I was doing. From the pictures I really can't tell much difference between the 2nd and 3rd. But in person I can tell that I am a lot leaner @ the 90 day mark. I can't really say I had much muscle growth if any in the last 2 pictures. What you think is lacking and that I need to focus on ?

Actually, while on vacation I only gained 3 lbs. And that's with drinking a lot for 8 days straight and eating out a lot.