Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Cycle 10 - CRUSHED

I breezed through Cycle 10, as I was in a relative zone with regards to the set routine. It was also a nice change to be fully healthy again, and getting back on track. While I had a decent amount of school work and other activities on my calendar, It was relatively quite easy for me to schedule in my P90x this week. Completing it the morning after dodgeball playoffs (2 days in which i had 2 games each) led me to start the routine a little sluggish, but I slid into the routine quite quickly. Only two cycles remain, so I am quite interested to statistically compare my changes. In terms of self-perceived change, I feel like I have become stronger certainly, based on increasing ability to do the set routines with more weights consistently across the board. Internally however, I feel that my body fat and overall weight have stayed about the same. I'll be very interested to compare fitness and body changes. While my fitness and athletic abilities have likely increased, I believe that my change in exercise routine, and yet my lack of change in diet may likely have a large role. P90x is a very strenuous routine that is great for getting into and keeping one in shape. I may contemplate running through the program again with the addition of adding the recommended diet steps, but tweaking it (possibly by speaking with my friend who is a personal trainer/nutritionist/dietician) to make sure I don't lose weight necessarily, but rather gain muscle mass while decreasing body fat content.

2 comments:

  1. So happy to hear you are breezing through P90X, most people always complain about the cycle. So are you supposed to just keep going through it after you have completed it? I think I may have to look into this, but with my motivation who knows if I'd even do it. But good job!

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  2. I definitely think I need to do something like P90X, too. It seems like a good way of planning and having a routine set ahead of time. The diversity definitely keeps your body on its toes. I need more diversity in my workouts!

    Good job with sticking to your goal and good luck with your future nutrition goals :)

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