Looks like you're doing great! Keep up the good work! Hope everything goes well with your gf. Cheers!

Thanks, she called me this morning so she made it safe and sound.

With the packers here my chances of doing the workout (or having a TV to use) are looking slim. Moving sucks.

you are doing SOOOO great Eric!!!!!!! I really am proud of all your hard work!!

thank you for all the prayers! we made it here safely and I plan on starting P90X soon!

once again Krantze, you are doing sooo great! i love you!!!

I love it when you call me krantze

haha

Week 10: Chest and back
OK so after an incredibly long day with the packers here I managed to do about 2/3 of chest and back, which honestly is an accomplishment given how completely drained I was. I also did ab ripper in my usual style which is without the DVD. I've done it so many times I have it all memorized. Well thats all for tonight, time to sleep.

haha, i thought you'd like that

i know that must have taken a lot of commitment to do that workout yesterday babe... you had such a long day but still did your workout, wow!!!

keep up the amazing work!!!

Whew, so I had an insane week with the packers and movers and a 12 hour car ride to our new house I'm FINALLY here and though our stuff isn't gonna be here for a while I still have my dumbbells, push up bars, pull up bars, and my DVDs.

SO today I started fresh with chest and back and ab ripper. Needless to say, it was brutal. Of course I really enjoyed the workout and it felt great to sweat again, but it was very hard to complete the whole thing. I was expecting that though, and I know that when I come back next week it will be easier.

Speaking of next week though, we are getting a few things early to our house and one of those things is our in home gym that I haven't seen or used in 2 years. It basically has a bench press, lat pull down, butterfly machine, and some other stuff. I'm thinking though, that since my apartment's gym doesn't have a bench press, that I may want to do a couple weeks of old school, heavy lifting along with running so I can bulk up a little bit more. Then when I get to my apartment I will start doing the p90x workouts again. Or I could do both bench and p90x. I don't know, these are just spontaneous thoughts I'm having. We shall see that these next couple weeks with my parents hold for me and working out. I'm planning on doing plyo tomorrow, though. Wish me luck.

So movers came here today with some of our essentials: beds, fridge, TVs (yea thats essential), and some outdoor stuff. However, the mover guy showed up with a fully packed truck and by himself. So I went to him with a proposition; you pay me your hourly salary and I'll help you unload the truck. He said yea and just like that I became a packer for a day. In the end I made sixty bucks, which is freakin sweet. However I was wayy to tired to do plyo since I had worked my butt off all day.

I know...another excuse. I just can't help what goes on when I'm living with my parents. I'll plan on doing shoulders and arms tomorrow. I'm definitely doing something though.

Also, I found my dad's really nice calipers (he's a doctor, so he just has these things) and used an online calculator to figure out my body fat percentage. I was very surprised when I saw that it was a little under 8%. It's certainly very motivating though! I'm definitely not gonna let slip.

your doing sooooo awsome babe! better than me well i've worked out a few times this last week.. but i know EXACTLY what your going through with the whole "parent situation"... im so ready to be on my own again and be with you!! keep doing great krantze!! your awsome

Phase 3: day 4-shoulders and arms
Today I woke up feeling good and went to my garage to do some bench press. After I was done, I came inside and relaxed for a little while, then decided to go on a run. I just moved here, so I do not know the area very well. Not to mention it's in the back hills of Wisconsin, where land is plentiful and civilization is not. So I take off and end up going in a huuge circle, which is good because I ended up back at my house. What was not good, however, was the 8.2 miles it took to get back. That's the farthest I've ever ran and I am absolutely exhausted. I may find the energy to do shoulders and arms later though, I'll be optimistic.

Edit: I sucked it up and just went and pushed play without thinking. Did shoulders and arms strong with new 25 pound weights (not really new, they came with the movers), then did ab ripper. What a day. I'm eating my protein bar, took my vitamins as well as a 800 mg ibuprofen, and ready to have the greatest sleep of my life. I deserve it today!

Wow. Sounds like an intense day! Nice job! Makes me feel guilty for sleeping in and missing my Yoga routine today :/ I'll just push it to Sunday and replace my X Stretch. Keep it up!

Yea well with how crazy my schedule's been I can't afford to slack off. Mentally, I need to get back in it or I'll keep slipping. As long as you're stayin strong with the schedule don't worry about skipping yoga, especially if you have a good reason. I'm using today as a rest day as well because my whole body is sore. As a matter of fact:

Day 4: REST

Krantze_ wrote:

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I'm FINALLY here and though our stuff isn't gonna be here for a while I still have my dumbbells, push up bars, pull up bars, and my DVDs.

Life's essential

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Speaking of next week though, we are getting a few things early to our house and one of those things is our in home gym that I haven't seen or used in 2 years. It basically has a bench press, lat pull down, butterfly machine, and some other stuff. I'm thinking though, that since my apartment's gym doesn't have a bench press, that I may want to do a couple weeks of old school, heavy lifting along with running so I can bulk up a little bit more. Then when I get to my apartment I will start doing the p90x workouts again. Or I could do both bench and p90x. I don't know, these are just spontaneous thoughts I'm having. We shall see that these next couple weeks with my parents hold for me and working out. I'm planning on doing plyo tomorrow, though. Wish me luck. :unsure:

Do what you have to do to stay motivated, personally I'd try and stick with the program for it's entirety for the simple fact that you've been using body weight for most of your workout and switching to weight training for resistance could require a bit more recovery time.

Yea, that's what I'm planning on doing. It's just hard to stay on schedule when there are so many things going on. But yea, I'm back on schedule for the most part. However, my legs--specifically my calves 'cause of all the hills--are still so sore from my run there's no way I'll be able to do legs and back today. I'm gonna substitute it with chest and back because I'd be doing back anyway and my chest is the least sore out of my whole body. I'll write about it in my log later on today.

Krantze,

I've been following your posts the last few days. Hang in there!! For most of us, our days are a series of planned encounters complicated by a series of unplanned interruptions. Stuff happens and the best thing for us to do is flow and adapt. Looks like you're doing a great job of that, so keep it up!

When stuff happens to me, I try to remember that something is better than nothing. Even if you can only go 15 minutes or so, you still did 15 minutes more than you would have done if you hadn't pressed "Play". I was listening to a podcast earlier today where an expert in treating breast cancer in older women demonstrated that mild exercise of just 10 minutes per day led to notable increases in muscle mass and in boosting metabolism in women being treated for the disease.

Hey, we all do more than "mild" exercise in this program, and just a few minutes will still work for us if it's a day where we can't get the full workout in.

Hang in there, man! We're all rooting for you!

Sparta bound...

Kevin

Thanks a lot Kevin, that's definitely something I'll try to remember the next time something crazy is going on. Probably once I start school again 15 to 30 minutes will be all I can afford/have energy for. But yea, thanks again.

Day 5: Legs and Back replaced by Chest and Back

This workout went great. I did 8 each for wide grip (the one I struggle with the most), 10 each for reverse grip, and 10 then 8 for closed grip. Hitting double digits for once is a huge accomplishment for me. I've worked so hard to get better at pull ups since the beginning, and it's finally hit me on how far I've come. Don't ever doubt yourself, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish if you stick with it through good times and bad. I certainly am. Woohoo!

Anyways, I felt strong with all the push ups and then the ab ripper. I'm thinking about getting the P90X+ ab/core workout to step it up a notch. My abs have always been pretty strong, and ab ripper has never been a big issue. It's hard, of course, I just wanna burn the whole way through baby. But yea, thanks for reading. Kenpo tomorrow, we'll see how my legs are feeling. In other words, I'll cross that bridge when it comes!

Day 6: Kenpo
Skipped this because I was still sore from my run. Like to the point where walking actually hurt. So I skipped it and throughout the day worked on the L pull up and stuff like that.

Day 7: Rest
and rest I did.

Week 2- Day 1: chest shoulders and tris
This workout is very intense. I did pretty good compared to previous weeks, which is always nice. I bought a heart rate monitor today and it works great. I burned around 600 calories with a max HR at 172. Pretty nifty little device. It should help a lot tomorrow when I do plyo.

Looks like you're doing great! Keep up the good work!

What heart rate monitor did you get and how much did you pay for it? I've typically decided not to get one since most of them seem pretty expensive for their use.