mohms wrote:

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Easy on the ALL CAPS there killer...

Congrats on the determination. I just got done with my fav: Arms and Shoulders. Feel the burn!!!

Anyone else despise YOGA day???

Mohms ; I feel the pain . I agree 100% Yoga just kicks my butt !

The first time I did about 35 - 40 minutes . The second time I got to the crane part and stopped. Third time I did the tri salutations and then stopped. Common sense tells me it will be awhile until I can even atempt the crane.

Yoga definetly makes me sweat . I think it will be awhile till I can be calm and breathe doing it.

hey wshngtn214 are you eating as much salt as you used too? I eat little to no salt and avoid it when I can, I pretty much hate the taste. But when I eat lets say something with a lot of real butter(it has loads of salt in it) like mom's mashed potatoes I retain a lot of the water I drink and suffer the exacted opposite effect your talking about. So the excess urinating is probably a good thing. And its carrying out all the toxins in your body. I'm not a professional or anything, just speculating.

TiamatFix wrote:

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hey wshngtn214 are you eating as much salt as you used too?

Thanks Tiamat - I bet that is part of the issue. I was never a big salt person but I know for a fact I've had significantly less this week. After reading some articles about this today I think it is probably from drinking more water each day, less salt and ketosis from not eating many carbs. It's showing on the scale so I guess its a good thing.

230.2 lbs Jan 1st
214ish when I joined this forum (hence the 214 in my name)
212 on Day 1 (Feb 25th)
208.4 about an hour ago.

DAY 5:
Tonights workout was the hardest one yet and I actually thought about just laying on the ground for a while instead of getting up after I finished A$$ Ripper X. I don't think I had full energy going into it. The lack of carbs are effecting my energy and not being used to working out this many days in a row has worn me out...those are my excuses anyway. I was still able to give it my all but there wasn't much left in the tank afterwards. It was Legs and Back.

DIET:
Another really good day - this is 5 straight days of following it nearly 100% (I had an extra english muffin yesterday and two recovery drinks tonight). I'm getting pressured at work to join my coworker buddies at lunch each day. It sux saying no to BW3's and then pulling out a baggie with 6 hardboiled eggs But...they all come back holding their guts complaining about needing a nap...I don't miss that feeling.

I'm looking forward to Kenpo X tomorrow and a DAY OFF on Sunday.

Okay guys -

Do anyone of you get tired of hearing Tony talk? After doing the exercises over and over again, Tony H. is really getting on my nerves.

"Ab ripper X, I hate it, but I love it" (insert creepy head tilt here)

kenny wrote:

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Okay guys -

Do anyone of you get tired of hearing Tony talk? After doing the exercises over and over again, Tony H. is really getting on my nerves.

More reason to do the work outs harder, so you can find him and be in good enough shape to kick his ass when you do.

kenny wrote:

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Okay guys -

Do anyone of you get tired of hearing Tony talk? After doing the exercises over and over again, Tony H. is really getting on my nerves.

HAHA!
I like him. He keeps it interesting. He reminds me of Michael Scott on "The Office". especially in the making of p90x videos on youtube.

mocheeks wrote:

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"Ab ripper X, I hate it, but I love it" (insert creepy head tilt here)

Hahah...I notice that creepy head tilt every time. I haven't tried it but there is an option to not hear him talk...I think.

Okay, I haven't heard anything from Mark on this thread. I hope he hasn't given up?

Nope, I'm still here. been busy this week, but am redoing week 3, had monday down, on tues instead of plyo I went for a 2.5 mile run (it was nice out)and had shoulders and arms last night

So funny that someone else thinks Tony reminds them of Michael Scott from the Office!!

For most of the videos he is the typical muscle head trainer guy. But it was cool to see him a bit more down to the masses in the Yoga X DVD. He was almost human, and for once, he fell more than I did!! I am glad they did not edit his wobbling out.

Legs and back this AM, then I got to pay back the AB-Ripper from this morning tonight after work (90 mins is too much before work).

Feeling like a million $

kenny wrote:

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Okay guys -

Do anyone of you get tired of hearing Tony talk? After doing the exercises over and over again, Tony H. is really getting on my nerves.

I don't have the option of muting him because I have the exercises on my Ipod. so need to hear him explain the movement, and the count etc... In Yoga however I just wish he would just shut up and go on to the next move

How do you get them on your Ipod? that would be great for traveling, do you have the videos or just audio?

I have a video converter for my Zune and Ipod, which i use to convert movies for my zune to travel, so the videos are converted to mp4 and have them both on the ipod and my zune. the caveat is that the images are not sync to the audio so there is a frame or 2 delay.

great way to travel indeed when i attempted P90X last summer we went on mini vacation and i took the videos with me and play them on my laptop which i connected to the TV, that was no hassle because i always carry my laptop anyway ( like to watch movies in the plane)

where do I get a video converter? how big are the files. Can they be e-mailed? I would probably just want audio files anyway.

I use the ImToo Zune video converter, altogether the videos are about 8gb in size

I have kind of gotten off the path of posting my progress and also geting up in the morning to get my workouts done. I have been averaging only 3-4 per weeek for the last 2 weeks.

Today I start Phase 2 and will be doing it when I get home from work.

What were peoples Phase 1 results like. I lost about 18 lbs at one point, but now its only like 15 lbs. I don't really feel like I have made that many gains, but I guess the scale doesn't lie.

Hey - How about muscle definition? Are you at where you want to be?

I can tell you that I enjoyed the phase II workouts better than phase I. For example, the "chest, shoulder, triceps" routine really pushed my muscles to the max.

Don't give up - You start to see a big difference after Phase II.