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for those of you who are teachers, you know about a little known vacation called spring break.  Since my last posting I have finished another round of P90X and am about to start a new round of P90X plus.

I timed up my P90X to finish right before we left for Vegas on spring break. Of course the whole time I was in Vegas I was asking myself...I wonder how many people walking here have done P90X...my guess, lots!  I even met some people at the pool bar and jokingly said, "u must do p90x" and they said yes! we had a great conversation about it and all  of the good things it has brought to our health and well being.  its so funny now that I can just slip the words p90x in a conversation and someone around me that I don't even know will join in.  Thanks Tony for changing the social landscape of our country! not to mention the mental state and killer bodies to go with it.  The confidence people exude from doing p90x is contagious and makes those people more attractive physically, mentally, and socially.  I told a couple on vacation that my wife and I are "DVD workout junkies".  they laughed, but said they too had seveal other beachbody programs in their collection.

the weather has turned nice here in Columbia and my students are already itching to go outside and enjoy it.  I try to encourage activity among my students as much as possible and the other day a few of the students asked if I worked out.  I said that I was doing P90X and a few of them said their dads or moms were doing it.  a few of my girls said they are doing it for their gymnastics training!!! I thought that was an awesome idea and hope that by just mentioning it to them, they would too want to go and exercise.  Never know what type of influence you might have on the youth of today :)

got some info back from the heart doc and we aren't going to have to do the heart procedure after all!  this is the best news since P90X showed up on my doorstep in 2008!  Well I guess the arrival of my second daughter happen between now and then, but i was trying to make all the die hards out there feel like I felt when I first started my p90x transformation.

so...now that I can do my workouts...its thanksgiving time. Yikes!  the mental part of working out all the time and eating healthy all the time is surrounded by a culture that promotes poor nutrition and a sedintary lifestyle. Grocery stores filled with bad food and processed everything makes me cringe inside and usually gives me the runs after eating it...

WWTD?  What would Tony do?

 come on, we all know that Tony is like the Messiah to some people and want badly to please tony and do what tony says we should do.  Has Tony written any books yet?  I guess this is the information age and if Jesus could have put his teachings on DVD, then he would have...or would he?  Definitely leading by example no matter which way you put it.

and as I have always believed about things you do in your life...there is no better time than the present to go and workout :)

I like that I can blog about my workouts because updating the profile can take some time and its much easier just to scroll through old blogs.

I am currently in my 3rd round of Insanity and loving it! unfortunately I got some news from my heart doc and I have to have a procedure done to close a hole in my heart.  ?The surgery is not the big deal...its the fact that he has told me to lay off the workouts for 6MONTHS!!!! What the heck am I going to do?

The mental challenge of not working out is going to be stressfull.  I was thinking maybe I could eat a ton and gain a bunch of weight and try to get on the reality tv show biggest loser or enter some kind of body transformation competition and get my story out to motivate some people...but I doubt that is a good idea.  I think that people should be motivated to do the right thing for themselves and not for fame or money.  I also think that doing it for your family, like my 2 young daughters, is more important and gratifying than any article in People Magazine.