P90X3: Commitment! One week away!

One week away.  That's what I think as I look in the mirror.  It's not procrastination, it's preparation.  I am putting myself in the mindset of commitment.  You have to commit, one hundred percent.

What's my commitment?  Ninety days.  Ninety days of eating right...of sleeping right...of watching my progress...of not letting people and situations stop me...of doing every workout, every day.

This workout is thirty minutes long each day.  Seriously, if you can't find 30 minutes in each day, you don't want this...you WISH this.  If you can't put aside 30 minutes, you aren't trying.  My daughter SHOWERS for almost 30 minutes...I have the hot water oil bills to prove it.  A TV sitcom is 30 minutes long!  COMMIT.  That comes first.

How have I committed this week?  I have watched almost all of the videos I will be using in the first 30 days of the 90 day period.  They are the same DVD's for three weeks.  I have gotten my pullup bar back out and checked it out for support and band issues (I use pullup bands off of the bar due to shoulder issues).

What else?  I have modified my eating,  more fruit and slowly eliminating sugary type items.  I have started drinking more water and less caffeine.  Hydration is key.  I am breaking out my mat this weekend and mark it according to the DVD workouts.  There is an agility set that calls for floor tape...I just use a Sharpie on my rubber mat.

As I look in the mirror, I can see the person I did not want to become again.  Months of sedate living has put me right back where I worked very hard NOT to be.  I'm not obese, but there is a much larger person in that mirror staring back at me than I am used to.  I don't want to be him.  I also know that the person in the mirror has only a short amount of time left.  Because I have done this successfully before.  How did I do it?  I committed 100% to the program.  The person in the mirror is slowly dying...he is on life support.  The person in my mind, the one I always see when I think about me, is ready to return.

I begin next Saturday, January 4th.  The rest of the group is starting on January 6th, but I always start on Saturday so that Friday is my break day.

Put this word in the top five of words you think of for the next 90 days.  COMMIT!!

P90X3: P90X, but Accelerated. Preparation Day 1

Hey!!!  Guess who's back?  It's Dick...and I need a workout.  Big time.  Why?  Because I've been a bad boy.  After spending 2012 and the first part of 2013 seriously kicking Beachbody butt with P90X (great results), Insanity (great results), LesMills Pump (so so results) and LesMills Combat (so so results)...I got complacent.  I took time off...too much time.  I went back to some old bad habits of snacking before bed, a few too many sweets, and watching a lot of television.  I STOPPED exercising for long periods of time.  Did I have a reason?  Lots of them.  Many too personal to go through here but let's just say that it culminated in me losing my job to layoffs and my mom passing away in October of 2013.

The good news?  I feel like I have a lot of personal stuff behind me...isn't it weird it was 2013?  13??  I am so looking forward to 2014.  And, to top it all off, my good bud, Tony Horton over at Beachbody has come out with a brand new routine, P90X3.  It's an accelerated version of P90X to be done in 30-40 minutes per day.  It's just what I need to take myself from where I am now to where I was in April of 2012.  I'm pretty fired up and plan on blogging the whole thing.  New routine, new material.

I am starting this blog differently than others.  I have a preparation method this time.  For the last four routines, I pretty much popped in the DVD's and just did it.  This time, I am reading...YES, READING...the manuals.  Then, I am going to lay out the DVD's I will be doing in the first month and view each one.  The ones with weights, I am actually going to try prior to DAY ONE of the workout.  I want to make sure I have all the right dumbbells and equipment and that I have measured my limits.

The next thing I am doing is prepping my body.  I have been eating well.  I eat pretty much the same thing every day.  So, why am I somewhat out of shape?  Because, you can eat less all day long and not keep a great look.  How?  Your metabolism just slows down to adjust for the low food intake.  I will cover all of this during the workout but let's just say that in the next two weeks I will be doing at least 45 minutes per night on the treadmill.  I need to up the metabolic rate.  Bottom line is, to lose weight and maintain fitness, you have to exercise.  YOU HAVE TO EXERCISE.  We weren't meant to be sedate. 

My diet?  I think, except for sometimes seconds at dinner and a snack before bed, I can do what I do normally.  Alcohol?  Gone.  My liver needs to be clean to process fats in the most efficient manner.  Anything with Aspartame and Sucralose?  Gone.  My liver needs to not have to process chemicals...just fat.  So, ice water it is...with lemon.  Coffee?  Two cups per day, low fat milk.  Water...all day long.  Focus on eating less sugar items...it's easy for them to creep in.  More fruit.

Other things?  Sleep...I am a huge offender of not getting enough.  My goal is 7 hours of sleep per night.  I get up at 7:30AM these days, so getting to bed by 12:30AM should be easy.

I am going to print the workout sheets and do the body measurements.  I am also going to post my starting point, for all to see.

Lastly, I am back to blogging.  Why?  I like to write and I also am of the mindset that when I do this, it keeps my brain on the diet track.  Okay, enough for tonight. When does this begin?

January 6th, 2014....two weeks from tomorrow.

If you want in, email me.  RTSTJACQUES@comcast.net.  We can all do it together!