Starting the Log Late, But Better Than Never...

I started seeing more and more people logging their experience and I started getting a little motivated watching other people get motivated - make sense? It's almost a combination of the "total immersion" concept with "self-fulfilling prophecy" concept.

What I mean by that blah, blah, blah, is that if I continue to tell myself something over and over again, then it starts to happen. The part about total immersion is simple really. Keeping things in sight and in mind help me keep on track without getting too distracted with life.

So I started P90X AGAIN after some injuries and stop/starts. I'm in week 5 now after a kick ass week 1-4. It was really 1-5 and a half, but I was in Africa for 6 weeks and didn't have my two upper body DVDs for phase 2. So I just took a cardio week and did another week of Phase 1. When I came home, I had the flu, chills, and massive jet lag, but that part was expected.

While I was out there, the food was not allowing for the right diet so I was on a massive deficit and training a lot. I did double workouts about 3 or 4 days a week. This was basically 30 minutes of cardio in the early morning (3 or 4 times a week), then did P90x in the afternoon when I returned. And during the day, we were pretty active walking the in Africa. All in all, major calorie burn.

Food was very clean and natural: natural sugar (only with coffee), liters of water a day, fruit, fish, chicken, veggies, some french fries (had to do it). I didn't have access to a pure protein and veggie diet called for in Phase 1 for the glycogen depletion part of the program, however I am really happy with the results from month one.

Now getting motivated for Phase 2. I took a little rest to acclimate myself to the new weather and access to really bad food - which is killing me.

In a matter of a week, I reset my high intensity heart rate from 155 bpm to 174 bpm in my morning runs. For my fit test, I'm using the military fitness test of push ups and sit ups in 2 minutes, max pull ups, and two mile run. My two mile run time dropped from 18:30 to 16:10 in a week. This is obviously because of the intensity boundary that was raised in my heart rate. Next goal is to bring the run sub 15:50 by May 4th.

I am now doing the run 3 or 4 times a week, alternating a two mile sprint with 25-35 mins of a moderate to fast pace. The afternoon/ evening is open for P90X.

Today was a 30 minute run this am. Started sweating after 12 mins with a constant heart rate of 142 bpm.