I invested in a cheap heart monitor (THIS one, to be precise). After you enter your age, height, weight and resting heart-rate, it not only provides relatively accurate ECG readings, but estimates how many calories you burned in your workout (it gets more accurate the more frequently you check your heartrate, since it bases the calorie burn on your ( Read more... )

It's about now for me that checking my weight once or twice a week isn't garnering any results. I seem to have plateaued about 8-10lbs below where I started, but I've lost multiple inches around every part of my body. The things I've noticed the most is my upper arms - there's some definition coming out and my bat-wings are seriously diminished... ( Read more... )

I just ran downstairs and weighed myself. Down another pound which... despite the obvious muscle I've built, means I'm down at least 6lbs of fat, probably more if you consider I've put on a couple pounds of muscle. That maybe doesn't sound like a lot in 4 weeks, but consider that I've skipped a bunch of days, I've been eating and drinking as I like ( Read more... )

I did my weekly measurements today and am utterly shocked to note that I'm down 3 full inches on my abdomen since day 1. I went from 36.5 inches to 33.5 inches ( Read more... )

I'm halfway through my third week. Things aren't progressing as fast as they did the first week, but they are still noticeably progressing ( Read more... )

I really pooned out this week. I've been soooo busy with work and frustrated that the desire to workout has been the last thing on my mind. But I just did today's Total Body and it is MUCH easier than the first time. What I love about the P90X is that it gets noticeably easier every week, except there's TONS of room left to continue to challenge ( Read more... )

I think it's my 8th day. I could look it up... but couldn't be arsed ( Read more... )

Today was Total Body Plus. I knew what to expect today so I'm not as angry as I was on day one. But today I had the addition of the P90X Chin Up bar ( Read more... )

Stayed up late tonight to make sure I got todays workout in. It was the "Core Synergistics", whatever that means. Basically it was another total body workout that included WAY too many push-up variations for my taste. But since I intend on sleeping in an hour, and I might have done something wrong yesterday or tonight during my warmup as my left ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I had to skip Saturday. I just didn't get time. From clients early in the morning, to having to work at the Oakville Jazz Festival in the evening, I just wasn't home ( Read more... )