Begin week 10. This is my start to week 10 and it hardly seems like I have been at it that long. I guess that’s what an all new program will do for you. I am really enjoying the P90X2 workout program and at the same time I’m looking forward to finishing. Next week will be my final week. So I will only be completing 77 days. Upon my return from the Bahamas I’m thinking of jumping back into 30 days of Insanity. Back to the task at hand. This week I will continue to push myself through these PAP workouts. I’m feeling big improvement and can’t wait to get going.

Day 64 – P.A.P. Lower – Already getting better and better at Lower PAP. This was my 3rd time doing it and I really feel like I go for it and only take a few very small breaks before jumping back in at full speed.

Day 65 – P.A.P. Upper – The only part of today’s routine I struggle with is the first move, Push up rows. The cast does these so much faster than I do I can’t keep up so I just stop when they reach their 10th rep. I’m usually at 7 or 8 when they hit 10. Other than that I keep up very well with the cast. I also think I’m at the right weight for now, but may try to up it over the next few times.

Day 66 – Softball Game – Feeling a little run down. I scheduled to do the X2 Ab ripper but decided against it knowing I had a softball game in the evening.

Day 67 – PAP Lower – This is my 4th time with PAP lower and it’s still a beast. It’s not much to look at on paper but when you get done you will feel the effects for a good while afterwards. I was a little unmotivated today, so thanks to my Challenge Group for pushing and supporting me to push through. You don’t have to do it alone. Contact me if you want to join our Challenge Group.

Day 68 – PAP Upper – These PAP workouts continue to kick my butt. I am still impressing myself everyday with how I’m improving. Today I help almost the entire hold sets in each complex. With all the shaking going on I was able to hold the moves. Next week will be my last week of P90X2 do to going on the Atlantis trip the following week.

Day 69 – Softball Double Header

Day 70 – OFF

Week in Review:
10 weeks in the books already, it seems like this has flown by. I have done very well with my workouts these last few weeks but on the diet side not so much. I do great on my diet during the week but it seems when I get to the weekend my will power weakens. Some of this is probably due to being almost done and knowing I will be away for a week in the Bahamas very soon. I have 10 days until we leave so I will try to nail the diet until we leave. Stay tuned.

Begin week 9. I’m starting Phase 3 this week and I’m excited about it. In the P90X2 Schedule, Phase 3 is a really basic schedule and will have me doing the lower and upper PAP workouts twice each week with a Recovery day in between. I will probably add X2 Ab Ripper to the recovery day just to keeo the ab work in there. The PAP workouts do touch on your core but I just feel I’ll need a good Ab workout in between. If you are new to P.A.P. workouts and want to know more about it click here.

Day 57 – P.A.P. Lower – Well I finally made it to Phase 3. Woohoo! Day one of Phase 3 is PAP Lower and it was an intense workout to say the least. I haven’t sweat this much since doing Insanity.

Day 58 – P.A.P. Upper – PAP Upper was the same as the PAP lower layout with power, explosive and plank holds. I will be using my heart rate monitor the next time I do these workouts to see how many calories I’m burning. I didn’t feel my heart rate was as high today as it got yesterday. Tomorrow I’ll be doing the Recovery and mobility workout.

Day 59 – X2 Ab Ripper – If you have been following me at all or if you know the P90X2 Workout Schedule you will know that Ab ripper is not what’s normally on the menu for today. In Phase 3 we do 2 lower and 2 upper PAP workouts with Yoga and Recovery in between. Since I have shortened my schedule to 5 days per week (Monday-Friday) and I don’t care for yoga I decided on going with Ab Ripper. In Phase 3 we don’t even use Ab ripper at all. I know the thinking of why we are not using it but I feel I still need it at least once per week. So on my in between day I’ll be doing it and some rumble rolling.

Day 60 – P.A.P. Lower – This was my second run in with PAP Lower and I was able to bring it again. This is a rough workout though fairly simple in design. My legs were still a little timid from Monday’s PAP workout but all in all I had a great workout.

PAP Lower Stats:
Workout Duration: 103.42
Calories Burned: 752

Day 61 – P.A.P Upper – These PAP workouts are something else. They are not hard in terms of the moves we do. What makes them hard is the pace in which we do them. By the time you reach the 3rd or 4th in each complex your just about toast. Or at least I am. I was happy to “just about” hold the stationary moves for the full alotted amount of time.

Day 62 – Softball Tournament

Day 63 – OFF

Week in Review:
My first week of PAP is in the books. These are some killer workouts. What’s nice is the moves are nothing you haven’t done with P90X, but the pace and the “complex” set up is what makes these work. I literally sweat more than an Insanity workout, which is hard to believe especially when you’re not moving like you do in Insanity. Regardless it’s a big calorie burn. My only “issue” with these workouts is how often we do them. Including this week I will do 3 weeks of PAP training. We do both PAP workout twice each week, seems like it will get a little old fast, unless I’m seeing amazing results in this Phase. We’ll see in the coming weeks.

Begin Week 8! This begins my 4th week in Phase 2 of P90X2. I’m hopeful I can move on to Phase 3 after this week, but I won’t know until the conclusion of this week. Up to this week I have been upping my reps and weight for each routine and I will continue to do so.

Day 50 X2 Chest Back and Balance w/X2 Ab Ripper – Pushed to the limit today, upping my reps once again. I added between 2-4 reps on each of the push up moves and I can feel my muscle soreness already within minutes of finishing the workout. So naturally I am drinking the Results and Recovery drink.

Day 51 Plyocide – I was not “into” it today but it’s almost such a habit to get my workouts in that I didn’t even second guess myself and pushed play. Once I got started I probably went with the highest intensity I have ever done on this workout. I was nauseated by the end so I know I did pretty good LOL.

Day 52 – X2 Shoulders and Arms w/X2 Ab Ripper – Well well well, another good day in the books. I’m really feeling well lately and continue to be able to up my weight. Which makes me wonder if I started way to low and underestimated my own strength. This routine runs in 3 sets, set one balance on my right, set 2 balance on my left and round 3 U up my weight even more and go with no balance. Love it!

Day 53 – Recovery + Mobility – Normally today (Thursday) I pick a random workout to do. Today I felt like it was a good time to do some recovery. And the rumble roller was needed a lot so it was a good fit. I liked all the stretching and rolling of my muscles and I know I’ll feel more energized tomorrow.

Day 54 – X2 Base and Back w/X2 Ab Ripper – Today my left knee felt a little sore. Each time I have done this routine I have increased my reps, which I wanted to do today. With my knee being tender I was arguing with myself to either do the same or up the reps. After arguing with myself I decided to up my reps and the knee was ok. I jumped on my yoga mat doubled over so to save my knees. I have to say I crushed this workout and think I’m ready for phase 3.

Day 55 & 56 – Off/Vacation

Week in Review:
Another week in the books for Phase 2. This Phase has been a good Phase for me and I love see the improvements I have been making. Pushing myself harder each day is going great. I’m also tracking everything I have been eating and have stayed in my ranges for my diet. Well, at least until I went on vacation. Saturday was not a good day for me and my diet. I’m not to worried about it as it was the only day I screwed up my diet. I’m back on track once again and have 3 weeks until my Atlantis. So I think I’m ready for Phase 3. Stay tuned…

Begin week 6. This P90X2 routine seems to be flying by quickly. Maybe because it’s pretty much all new to me. Maybe because I’m really enjoying it. Maybe both. Coming into week 6 I intend to up my reps and weight once again. My other goal this week is to make sure I get those ab ripper days in, I seem to miss them more than I want. Looking forward to this week!

Day 36 – Chest Back and Balance with X2 Ab Ripper – This was my second time doing this workout. Last week I went fairly easy just to measure where I was at the start of this Phase. After last week I felt like I could have done more so naturally I upped my reps today. Last week I did 10 reps of each move. This week I upped it to 12 per move. Now I know that’s not very high but again I’m trying to find where I’m at. Next week I will be upping my reps again even though I felt I had a good burn today I felt I could do more.

Day 37 – Plyocide – My goal today was not to let my mind determine when to rest but rather push harder for more reps than my mind wanted. I’m proud to say I impressed myself pushing out bigger numbers today even though I would tell myself “ok, I’m going to do 10 of these”, I was able to hit 15 and more in some cases. Bring it! My HRM was a little jacked up today at some points it completely stopped calculating my heart rate, which is why you will see a low number of calories burned.

Plyocide Stats:
Workout Duration:52:22
Calories Burned: 359

Day 38 – X2 Shoulders and Arms w/X2 Ab Ripper – Had a great workout today. I upped the ante today even though I wasn’t sure I would be able to. I surprised myself and had an awesome workout. Next week I will be upping my weight once again to see how far I can go. I had issues last week in getting all the ab ripper workouts in, so this week I wanted to make sure I got at least 2 in for the week. I just about did every rep today in Ab ripper just short a few on certain moves.

X2 Shoulders and Arms w/X2 Ab Ripper Stats:
Workout Duration: 57:27
Calories Burned: 672

Day 39 – LesMill Pump Step – I had a problem trying to figure out what workout I wanted to do today. I knew I wanted a cardio workout I just wasn’t sure which one, Insanity, P90X or LesMills. I went with a workout I had never done with “Step” from LesMills Pump. May not have been the best decision with the fact that tomorrow is my P90X2 legs workout. Only time will tell, either way this was a good intensity (leg) workout. I’m literally soaked in sweat from this 30 minutes program.

Day 40 – X2 Base and Back w/X2 Ab Ripper – This was my first go around with this workout. I skipped it last week due to a softball tournament. I was expecting something similar to the original P90X Legs and back routine which had A LOT of squats. Well this was not the case, in X2 we are doing plyo and back. I really enjoyed this workout and for today kept my number modest to give me a base line. Next week I’ll be upping my reps even though I had an awesome burn today…gotta push through.

X2 Base and Back Stats:
Workout Duration: 56:29
Calories Burned: 574

Day 41 and 42 – Rest

Week in Review:
Had an amazing week of workouts. I am really enjoying this phase. I have stayed on my “clean” diet pretty good. I’m just not where I want to be. So I have reevaluated my diet and will be changing it for the next 5 weeks. I have 5 weeks until I leave on my Beachbody Coach award trip to Atlantis in the Bahamas. So my goal will be to nail my diet for the next 5 weeks and try to cut my body fat down as much as I can in this short amount of time. I have lost more weight and I’m seeing changes in definition on my body, but I think this new change will be dramatic for me. If you want to see my new diet plan click here. I have also fell off of track when it comes to documenting everything, so I’m getting back on track with that as well. I will document these next 5 weeks in themselves and see what kind of results I can pull off. I’m excited to start this new diet phase. Stay Tuned…

This week I begin Phase 2 and I am excited to get to these strength training workouts. I feel I burn much more calories and fat when I do resistance workouts. Being I have not previewed any of these workouts I will most likely take it easy just to see where I stand before going hard core. At this point I’m thinking of doing about 4 weeks of Phase 2, but we’ll see how things go once I get started.

Day 29 – Chest Back and Balance with X2 Ab Ripper – Brand new workout today for me. This was mt first time doing this routine. I went ahead and played it safe not knowing what exactly to expect. It is similar to the original Chest and Back workout in P90X, but includes a bit more “balance” moves. Of course you can modify anything you need to. I really liked this workout and expect to see good things from it. I tried the all new Energy and Endurance for today’s workout and was really surprised how well it worked for me. I have used Jack3d and wanted to see how it compared, well it compared very nicely, maybe even better. The taste was much better too, it’s like a strong lemon lime. I will continue to use it instead of Jack3d. After the workout I went directly into X2 ab ripper…I have never done that before! Want a pre-workout drink try E and E!

Chest + Back + Balance w/X2 Ab Ripper Stats:
Workout Duration: 116:21
Calroes Burned: 732

Day 30 – Plyocide – “Death by jumping”, well not really but I still enjoy this one and each week I’m able to push myslef a little bit harder than the previous time through it. Today was day 30 in my P90X2 journey and I’m still doing well. Looking forward to tomorrow’s first time with Shoulder’s and Arms.

Plyocide Stats:
Workout Duration: 49:50
Calroes Burned: 654

Day 31 X2 Shoulder’s and Arm’s – Back to basic’s today, well not really. Shoulders and arms was my favorite P90X routine and this one is going to be one of those I like too. Glamour muscles are my favorite to work on (they need the most work). This was a repeat workout which I generally don’t care for to much but it seemed to go pretty quick. I like the fact that even though the moves were repeated there were about 7 moves to do before you actually repeated them.

X2 Shoulder’s and Arm’s Stats:
Workout Duration: 57:17
Calroes Burned: 597

Day 32 – Cardio X – As of the first week I have been replacing X2 Yoga with a cardio workout. Lately I have been going with an Insanity workout but today I went with an oldie but a goodie. I did P90X Cardio X, I love this routine and just so you know…YES I skip the yoga portion of it. With skipping the yoga portion it cuts the workout duration down to about 35 minutes. Short and good workout and as usual I can keep up with the cast in this one, I can’t say that about many workouts.

Cardio X Stats:
Workout Duration: 34:02
Calroes Burned: 461

Day 33 – X2 Back and Base – The P90X2 schedule for today calls for back and base. However I have committed to play in a Softball tournament tomorrow and don’t think I will be very valuable if I can’t hardly move. My legs are already sore and that’s without doing the legs workout. So I’m skipping this workout.

Day 34 – Softball Tournament – Played in an all day tournament and had a great time with great friends. Got a pretty good workout in today overall and I’m glad I decided to skip yesterday’s workout.

Day 35 – Off

Week In Review:
I wish I could say I had a great week but I would be bending the truth just a hair. I felt good all week in terms of my P90X2 workouts, but my diet was not one to be desired. I stuck to my diet all week, but when the weekend hit I fell off the wagon. I ended the week with about 4 cheat meals (not cheat days). Being that I workout pretty hard 5-6 days per week I have one meal per week that I eat whatever I want. Well this turned into about 4 this week. The Super Bowl didn’t help in that factor but I need to have stronger will power than I did. I’m not letting it get to me though. I will be back on track next week. Stay Tuned…

Begin week 4. Excited to start this final week of Phase 1. I will most likely not be doing a Recovery week in between Phase 1 and 2 as it is optional per the P90X2 schedule. I don’t feel like I will need it after this Phase. So next week comes Phase 2!

Day 22 – X2 Core – I’d be lying if I said I was pumped up for today’s P90X2 workout. I have yet to miss a workout nor do I have an excuse to miss one so I was not going to skip it. I just wasn’t “feeling it” today. Nonetheless I pushed play and had a good workout. Still showing an improvement and lessened my foot taps today.

X2 Core Stats:
Workout Duration: 51:54
Calories Burned: 617

Day 23 – Plyocide – My goal today was to push harder than I had the last time. I did pretty good today and it felt great to get this one in. Plyocide is not that long of a workout, in terms of the amount of time you are actually working out. This is another one of my favorite workouts.

X2 Plyocide:
Workout Duration: 51:56
Calories Burned: 714

Day 24 – X2 Total Body – Total body continues to be an awesome workout. We hit all the major muscle groups and of course we use the stability ball. I kept with what I did last week and this week was a bit easier compare to last week. In hind site I should of upped the ante today. Even so I got a good burn and it felt good to get it done today.

X2 Total Body Stats:
Workout Duration: 63:43
Calories Burned: 770

Day 25 – X2 Yoga – NOT! No disrespect to any yoga lover’s out there, but I just can’t get around to liking yoga. So instead ZI stuck with an Insanity Workout. I went with Core Cardio and Balance as it’s one of my favorites. It’s the one cardio workout per week I get so Insanity seemed to be the way to go.

Core Cardio And Balance:
Workout Duration: 37:12
Calories Burned: 620

Day 26-28 – Sick – I caught the bug that was going around my household and was way to sick and weak to do X2 Total Body.

Week in Review:
Started this week off on the right foot, ended badly. I started the week with my shoulder and hamstring pains pretty much gone. Two days this week I had one of my daughter’s home from school with a virus going around. I was fortunate not to catch it until the end of the week. Thursday night it hit me pretty hard. It wiped me out completely for 24 hours. Knowing I was transitioning into Phase 2 Monday I didn’t want to do a workout on Sunday when I started to feel better, so I just took those days off to re-coop. Monday I will be starting Phase 2 and I’m pretty excited about it. I’m ready for some more strength training in my workouts. Stay tuned…

Begin week 3. I’m still amazed in how much improvement in my core I am seeing and in how quickly. This is only week 3 and I’m pretty sure I will be doing a 4th week of Phase 1 before moving on to Phase 2.

Day 15 – X2 Core – Prior to beginning today my shoulder seemed to be aggravated. Not really sure what happened but it was pretty sore. Yesterday I did a LesMills Pump and I upped my weight on the chest and shoulders moves. That’s the only thing I can think of that would of caused any pain for today. Nonetheless I went at this workout full steam. I was weary of my shoulder on a few moves but being mostly a core workout it didn’t come into play to often.

X2 Core Stats:
Workout Duration: 52:06
Calories Burned: 716

Day 16 – Plyocide – My shoulder is still jacked up and it’s almost worse than yesterday, it’s no better to say the least. Not many upper body moves in this workout so I didn’t really worry about it. Tomorrow maybe a different story. I really don’t want to miss a day so I’m hopeful it’s better. I have been using ice and heat trying to work out the muscle. Another thing I have been using is the rumble roller which seems to get deep in the muscle. I did have a great workout today and feel like I’m still making progress on this routine.

Plyocide Stats:
Workout Duration: 55:03
Calories Burned: 780

Day 17 – Recovery + Mobility – I have been nursing an ailing shoulder the last few days. Today was a scheduled X2 Total Body workout, but I just didn’t think it was a good idea to do that today. On top of my ailing shoulder I tweaked my right hamstring last night. I didn’t stretch well enough on top of it being fairly cold at my softball game. Running bases I felt it pull up on me. So today I decided it would be a great idea to take it easy and spend some time with the rumble roller. Recovery + Mobility has a 20 minute block just with the roller and I spent most of that time on my shoulder and hamstring. I feel much better now – tomorrow will be fun to get back to a balance and power style workout.

Recovery + Mobility Stats:
Workout Duration: 57:09
Calories Burned: 180

Day 18 – X2 Total Body – It was nice getting back to a good workout today. My shoulder is much better and I have been rumble rolling my hamstring which has been working out very nicely. I was able to do this entire routine without much regard for my shoulder or hamstring. I didn’t up my numbers today, instead I did what I did in round one last week, then matched it in round two. Where last week my round two numbers were slightly lower than round one. You will notice my workout duration was a bit extended today as I had to pause the video a couple times.

X2 Total Body Stats:
Workout Duration: 1:09
Calories Burned: 873

Day 19 – X2 Balance and Power – With my schedule being a but off this week with the shoulder and hamstring issues I decided to go with X2 Balance and Power today. Not the best idea after yesterday’s X2 Total Body. It’s not advised to do back to back strengthening workouts. My original idea was to do Insanity today and Balance and Power Sunday, but I’ll be at an all day Softball Tournament Sunday. So I switched these two workouts and will use Sunday as my cardio day. I have to say my back was a bit tweaked today, two days in a row of a lot of core work must have to much for me. I won’t do that again for sure. I still matched my numbers from last week and had a good burn it just wasn’t that comfortable.

X2 Balance and Power Stats:
Workout Duration: 100:01
Calories Burned: 688

Day 20 – OFF

Day 21 – Softball Tournament

Week In Review:
In terms of workouts I had a great week. Although I was dealing with some soreness and injuries I still pushed play and this shows me I dedicated to getting this done at whatever the cost. I continued to drink the pre-workout drink Jack3d and of course my Shakeology. I think I’m going to halt drinking the Jack3d for some time and try the all new Energy and Endurance pre workout drink. In terms of diet I took a step back. I did well all week but the weekend proved to be a little difficult. I didn’t do real bad but I’m disappointed in some of the choices I made. Next week I begin week 4 and the final week of Phase 1.

Stay Tuned…