Kempo

I did manage to do my kempo x this morning. I got up not early but did get up, jump into my workout cloths and went right into it. I knew if even went downstairs or outside before I did my workout I would never get back up there to do it. Today was such a nice day. Warm and sunny around 60-65 degrees.

Yoga

I did manage to do my yoga yesterday. Man was I soar after and the next morning. I slept till around 10:30 this morning. I did not do my leg and back workout it was way to nice a day today to be working out. I climbed a few trees today instead. Tomorrow is kempo and will do my best to do it in the morning.

first post in awhile

It was so long ago that I posted that I don't even know if I did my workout after the skipped yoga post. I want to say that I did not do anything the rest of that week. I restarted week 6, I did the chest, tri's, and shoulder workout monday. I did plyo tuesday, skipped back and biceps on wednesday since I did them the other week and was redue that week again. I did not do yoga again. It just takes so long to do it. I know its a really good workout and I would really help me but just getting motivated to workout for an hour and half is hard. I did do my legs and back routine but did not do my abs because that was the day of my art opening and I had to finish working out, take a shower, finish printing other photos, and get over to bennington by 4:30pm.

After the art exhibit I went home and celebrated with a very fattening 4 meat thin crust frozen pizza. Kaleb came over and had some as well and we watched "Zack and Mira Make A Porno" on demand. It was very funny.

Saturday I didn't get up till late and I had no motivation to do Kempo. Sunday I skipped my stretching workout. I now I am on to week 7. I did my normal chest, tri's and shoulder workout. I skipped plyo again. That is really bad because that is probably the best fat burning workout. I just read that the best way to burn fat during a workout is to have your heart racing. And believe me this workout nearly makes my heart jump out my chest. My Monday workout I think I am getting much better at. I was able to do 21 clap/plyo pushups. That is doing a pushup then pushing up fast and getting your hands and feet of the ground and while that is happening I clap my hands and then come back down and do it all over again. It takes me longer to read that sentence then it does to actually do one of those pushups.

I did my back and biceps yesterday. I am really trying to max my reps on pull ups and really work on good form. Good form is key without it your not doing much for yourself or you might be hurting yourself. Today is yoga and I am going to try my best to motivate myself to do it. This is the last week of phase two before going onto the recovery week. Phase 3 is actually back to what phase one was.

no yoga today

Well instead of being healthy and doing my yoga exercise I was down at the Cambridge Hotel photographing the new chefs menu and eating it. I took over 800 photos of numerious dishes. I eat mostly the appitizer. Ever time Rich (the chef) came in with a new dish for me to photo he was always telling to eat eat Ian whatever you dont eat you can take home. Which I did and my mom and I had fine dining for dinner. It was a mix of vegitaran pasta primavera, a fish dish, a chicken dish with mash potatos, apple pie, spring rolls, cheeses, grapes, toasted pita bread, chicken pot pie. Very fatting and very delicous. After eating healthy for so long my stomach screamed at me later on the john. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO ME!!!!!. I guess it was a little much to handle that fast.

back and biceps

I think I worked the hardest on this workout out of many of the others. I tried much harder to work on my form. I went back to the pull up bar and did 7 pull ups close grip underhand. That is not that many but I went all the way down to elbow lock and then pulled myself back up. That is much harder then going down say only 3/4 of the way. I was able to do 2.5 wide overhand pull ups. Those are super hard for me. I worked a lot with the bands, really just witht the green ones. It confuses me a little because the guys that are using the bands are all using the green bands for the pull ups and those are the easiest of the three that I have. I sometimes am using the black bands which are the hardest. The confusing part is the guys using the green bands are so much more ripped and leaner and stronger then me but I am using the black bands. There is no way I am as strong or stronger then some of these guys. I must have bad form. I spent more time working on my form and incorporating an Isometric hold on some of the pull ups to get more of a pump.

As much as I say I hate the ab workout I think I continue to get much better at it. I am not as spent from doing one of the moves or I can make it through the whole move without a break. What upsets me is that I am not losing the flab on my stomach or tighting it up or at least it does not seem that way. The bad part about that is my 33 jeans are getting tighter not looser but not because I am getting fatter but because my abs are becoming stronger and larger and therefore adding onto the thickness of my midsection.

no plyo today

I didn't have in me to do plyo today. I think I was to sore from yesterday. I think I did the workout to late so I was more sore today then usual.

Legs, Back, Abs

Same as yesterday nothing new just the same workout. I hate doing the ab workout as I have stated in earlier posts. But I push myself to do them. I know I am getting stronger in the legs but it is hard to see a difference in leanest until the after photos. even then I still have much much flab to get rid of.

yoga x

Finished my yoga x workout. Nothing really new to post about it except that I think I am getting a little more flexable. I am getting a little strain in my upper back though after doing the shoulder stand. I dont know if this is because I am losing fat in my back and there is not as much padding to support there or I am doing something wrong. It only hurts right after when I go into childs pose and stretch my upper body out. Then it seem to subside.

back and biceps

Well that is what i did. Lots of different kinds of biceps curls and different forms of pull ups. I need to get some different weights. My ten pounds is two light for some of the moves and my twentys are two heavy for some. I need to get a pair of 12 pounders and 15 pounders. For my chest, triceps, and shoulders I would help to have less then 10 also maybe 5 and 8 pounders. I also did my abs again. I was not feeling that good today for doing the workout but I fought my way through it and finished the whole thing plus the abs. Tomorrow is yoga.

Phase 2

Yesterday started the phase two of my workout. I did chest, shoulders, and triceps. There was many forms of pushups some easy most hard. The big one that I thought there would be no way I could do was the jump/plyo push up. You get into a wide feet wide hand stance then push up and jump feet and hands off the ground and if you can get high enough you clap your hands then come back down and continue to failure. Ab ripper x was also yesterday that was still hard but I might be getting better at it. Today is plyometrics which I actually might be having fun doing since my form is getting better and it is a real sweaty workout.