I call this phase 1 as this is a work in progress!    I don’t feel like I’m actually done here, I have a way to go.  There have been some things that didn’t change while I’ve seen improvements in other areas. 

Here are some of the highlights - the things that improved.

Vertical Leap - difference between the highest reach (standing) and highest reach (jumping)

day 1 - 6″

day 90 - 11.5″

Push-ups

Day 1 - 12 (knees)

Day 90 - 20 (knees)

Toe Touch - with legs straight out, how far the fingers extended

Day 1 - minus .5″

Day 90 - plus 3″

Wall Squat - Leaning against wall in a seated position

Day 1 - 27 seconds

Day 90 - 42 seconds

Bicep Curls

Day 1 - 8 lbs, 30 reps

Day 90 - 8 lbs, 40 reps

In & Outs - in a seated position with hands on floor, bringing legs in and out to stomach

Day 1 - 25 times

Day 90 - 55 times

Super positive - I didn’t quit.   I went all the way through and didn’t miss one weight workout, although did miss a few of the other workouts.    Most people quit before they finish because they either don’t see results or they find an excuse not to continue.   

I didn’t see *all* the results I was hoping to see at the end of the first 90 days, but I am not throwing out the baby with the bathwater and know that I improved greatly in many areas.    Although I’m not interested in picture taking, weighing & measuring myself at this point I will be looking forward to doing that down the line, maybe in the next phase or perhaps even next month!

We are continuing with “phase 2″ - ha.  This morning I did some plyometrics and we will be officially restarting the second 90 day phase on Monday.

Been really behind in keeping track of this - I’m entering into another recovery week and then that’ll be the last of it.   We are planning on another round after a weeks’ rest.    I guess the photos will really tell us what we’ve accomplished.

Day 75 Legs & Back; ab ripper

Day 76 & 77 Rest

Day 78 Chest, Shoulders & Triceps; Ab Ripper

Day 79 Plyometrics

Day 80 Back & Biceps; Ab Ripper

Day 81 Cardio X

Day 82 Legs & Back; Ab Ripper

Day 83 & 84 Rest

We’ve been just taking the entire weekends as rest days as the work-outs are wearing us out!

I am catching up on blogging these days.   What we did on day 69 instead of Kenpo was Ab Ripper, took a rest on day 70 (weekend) then got back to routin on day 71, 72 and 73.    I stopped after 30 minutes of plyo on day 72 as I was too tired to continue.     Engaged in some Passover food nonsense and it really caught up with me.   Today will be doing Cardio X as well.

Here’s a gem that was passed on to me.  

I’m happy to be doing cardio now!   

In my inbox I receive newsletters from Beach Body.   Today was about getting a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in our diets.  What is perplexing is the P90X diet guidelines only recommend 1 serving of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables a day, far and way below what the USDA recommends.   Now how can this be?  

It is  disturbing that Beach Body appears to “keep up” with the latest in nutrition, etc. yet their diet guidelines are SO behind the times with animal based high protein diets and low fruit and vegetable consumption and ESPECIALLY all the supplement pushing.   

I guess they have to push those supplements because of their stance on a low plant food diet.   Although supplements just can’t take the place of the nutrients in plant foods, especially FRESH plant foods.   So I guess the outside of the body will look fine but the inside is gushing with recovery drinks, soy protein isolates, artificial flavorings & colorings and a bunch of animal protein.   

It is a good thing our bodies are forgiving.    It doesn’t take long for our bodies to repair the damage of unhealthy diets, as long as we feed them correctly with health promoting foods.

Rough workout!   You really know when you are progressing, when it keeps getting harder and harder as the weights go up!

Yuck - always find it hard to get through this one!

Did that - yes it all hurts too!

Another weekend rest well deserved.

Again, I did this instead of yoga, very happy with that of course!