Well, It started like a normal day. Wake up eat three bowls of cereal and go off to work. I never said that It was much of a life to be living, but, it's what I had going for me. Stressful hours, horrible diet, weak, miserable, tired all the time. I was a regular slob. A walking piece of fat at 230 lbs, 22 percent body fat (for me that's horrible). Oh yeah....And I was pretty much a dead man
Well, It started like a normal day. Wake up eat three bowls of cereal and go off to work. I never said that It was much of a life to be living, but, it's what I had going for me. Stressful hours, horrible diet, weak, miserable, tired all the time. I was a regular slob. A walking piece of fat at 230 lbs, 22 percent body fat (for me that's horrible). Oh yeah....And I was pretty much a dead man walking with my bad cholesterol.
Time to X myself!
One day while I was eat some fried chicken watching the infomercial station (yes I HAD that little of a life) Here came P90X. Like Super Man it came and saved me from the evil fat cells from Fried Chick Inc. I watched these people do things that were absolutely magical! I was flabbergasted (ha great word)... It was like a fist punching me in the face. How does a 45-46 year old man do this? Im in my 20's and I was happy to be able to do 4-5 pull ups and 20 push ups. WHILE TONY was doing around something like 400,000 pull ups and double the push ups. It was UNFAIR. Time to make a change.
Dialing a phone had never been so ease for me. And the way the p90x secretaries answered pumped me with Xness. Hello p90x! GOOD BYE FATNESS!
And sure enough bye bye fatness it went...but it didn't go with out a fight.
The day I got my dvd's I read the books cover to cover. It was what I what I read when I woke up and what I read when I went to sleep. It was incredible knowing that change CAN happen. Especially for some one like me with horrible (I emphasize) HORRIBLE genetics. Dad had a gut, grampa had a gut, great grampy had a gut. I HAD A GUT AND I HATED IT! And this is where the fun began. On the finale thought of "hello 6 pack!" God bless the X!
Day 1 - Chest and Back with Ab Ripper X. Can you say "Ow". I sure can! It was push ups on top of push ups with more push ups one the side with a truck load of pull ups on the side. Now when I say push ups I was motivated to do push ups. I didn't JUST do push ups I was stupid (yet motivated) enough to do push ups ON TOP of push ups! I'd do push ups on my feet till my chest was burning, only to go on my knees and use the push up stands until I could barely move my arms...Only to finish up with knee push ups with out stands and my arms burning like 1,000 suns. I felt like my chest was stabbed by a Trojan spear. Ab ripper didn't help. I thought my abs were going to blow up! OWY OWY OWY! I was happy when I did 15-20 reps and was even happier when Tony Horton said "I felt that" at the end. It means that I was working out with a PERSON! Not a robot that could sweat!
Day 2 - Plyometrics. What can I say about Plyo? Besides that it'll make your heart pump so hard that you'll be able to hear it. Low squats high jumps little break. Mommy! I thought that I was going to DIE! I figured I should've written my will before I started. When they say "90 days", they defiantly don't put an "easy" before it. If you want to get ripped...Prepare to WORK!.
Day 3 - Shoulder and Arms with Ab ripper. Finally some familiar-ish ground! Weight lifting oh boy! This'll be fun! WRONG! By the end of it my already recopeing triceps were BATTERED. Shoulders were shot with the lactic acid build up. And as for my biceps? I've never seen my vein pop on them before. It was neato (pardon my Ircle word). My biceps and triceps were so swollen with the pump Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't have anything on me! I was pleased with it.
Day 4 - Yoga. I sucked.
Day 5 - Legs and Back w/ Ab ripper. I don't know what to say about it. My legs after plyo hurt...And then this on top of it? HA! PAINN!!!!!!!!!
PAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!
A good king though.
Day 6- Kenpo X. I had no idea what I was doing. I was moving and grooving just like tony said, having a blast! My heart rate went through the roof with a smile on my face (unlike plyo). Sure enough I was as graceful as an elephant trying to do a tap dance performance. But, hey! Do your best forget the rest!
This was great I went through 90 days of this hellish boot camp. I ended up with 10.3 percent body fat - 195 (my dream weight). Oh and one more thing. I had an 8 pack! I was SO HAPPY! I literally cried. I didn't know who to thank - tony or god. And I had this body for a LONG time 6-7 months. BUT THEN, It happened. One day on the job a metal 50 lbs pipe fell right on my shoulder. Dislocated and broken. I've always had a bad shoulder but THAT was the turning point straight to the 7th circle of hell. I was out - no work outs for 5 months. Nothing, ate unhealthy, struggled to pay bills. Bye 8 pack. I was very happy to keep 4.
Here I am today. Restarting the X. I don't look behind me and whine, I look behind me and use it as motivation. My shoulder is better. I'll take it easy and get it back!
God bless the X.
P.S. sorry for the short bio and uncreative one. Before work - I really had to move it.
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