Shopping Day

Right. Went shopping with a list that I took from The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf.  What did I get, let's see: Strawberries, cantaloupe, avocados, bell peppers, steak tip meat, ground turkey, carrot sticks, onions, sweet potatoes, and baby spinach.   Here's a video about the diet.




With what I have in the fridge now, its looking good for a good week of eating.   I mentioned the Advocare cleanse in the post below.  A co-worker put me on to Advocare and it looks like a great product. I'm suspect of products that are out there, but in in a healthy way.  I've seen what P90X and Insanity did for me.  Now it's a "wait and see" with this upcoming Advocare cleanse.

Went to to a local diner for breakfast and logged into Fitday.com mobile.  The Fitday journal, logging into Beachbody for the workouts, and this blog all keep me honest.

I'm looking into TRX right now too. 

Time to cook some meat.

Later

Day Six - Back and Chest

Right.  Day six of P90X.

Just finished the weight resistance part of this morning.  About to start Ab Ripper X.   Truth is that Im the edge of bagging ABX - but will not. 

This is the third time I've done the program.  But its starting all over again.  Current weight - 181.8 lbs. at 24% body fat. In a month or so, I'm going to work in some Insanity cardio workouts.  Both programs are Beachbody products.

This week I go shopping for food that follows the Primal Diet.  That should be interesting.  I'm going to fire up the FitDay.com account to log my food.   I know what I need to eat, when it comes to total calories and fat, protein, and carbs percentages.  So, after shopping, log it, I start an Advocare cleanse.

Later.

Hola! No workout today

Hmm.  I got up early to go for an interval run, and holy crap, my glutimus maxius was .... well, the pain was there.  It was from the lunges yesterday.  So, I bagged the run.  The thing is that that sucks.  Well, maybe not "sucks" but I could have gone, maybe should have gone.   Chalk one up to getting back on the path, this day was a rut.

Day Five - Legs and Back

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.  What happened to my blog - I put, what, three hours or so into the design, and "poof," it's gone!   Grr

Anyway, I got up at 4:30 AM this morning.  I know.  Holy crap!  But the leg and back workout was sweet - the legs still ache and its 12 hours later.  That says something,  More later

Day Four - Morning Run

Well, I got up and out for a run.  Now, it was the second run in seven months or so.  And it wasn't pretty.  Run. Walk. Run.  Walk.  You get the picture.  But I got out.  That's the thing.  Better one mile than none. 

I never thought that getting back would be like this, but what did I really expect?  Hmm.  The not so strange thing is that I feel good about getting back at it.  And what I know from past experience, when your diet is dialed in, the number of calories is spot on, your eating protein after working out, tons of water, and you mix up strength resistance and cardio (preferably high intensity interval training) your body slowly but surely begins to shed fat in layers. It's a matter of commitment.  And truth be told, I have a part of it going now, the workouts, but the diet, water, etc. have yet to be dialed in. 

So so far this week, four workouts in and the weeks not finished yet.   Off to close on a house.

Mill Pond, May 12

Reflections in the AM

Not today

Southside Beach, Nantucket, MA

Day Three - Shoulders and Arms

Done.  Right, this is my favorite workout of this program.  Feel good.  I was going to workout yesterday in the am and the alarm didn't go off.  Hmm. Subconscious mind at work? Hmm.

I was reading about functional fitness.  Looks good.  The workouts that really workout your whole body are intense in a different way, rather than the isolated weight excercise workouts.  Like flipping a huge tire, or swinging a sledgehammer.  Crossfit takes functional fitness to a new level.  There's a new gym that opened up that is works this angle to.

Day Two - Morning Run

Went out for a short run, interval style, and came back and jumped rope.  Have to say that I was sucking air big time.  Time will change that.

I keep in mind that I was worse off than I am now two years ago, when I started P90X for the first time.  But any way you slice it, getting back in shape is a bear.  Most likely its the start up that causes so many out of shape people to just bag it and grab a donut.   I know that first hand.  Inconsistency is the hobgoblin of out of shape people.  And guess what?   That described me to a 'T'.

Day One. Chest and Back plus Ab Ripper X

So, I started P 90X today, first day of 90 to come. The workout was great.  I'll stopped working out partly due to a nasty shoulder sprain that turned into "frozen shoulder." So, the first day is in the books and I feel great about it. ABX was tough.  I know that time will change that. Heading off to down a recovery drink.

So I was thinking that the reason for the shoulder putting out of action sounds lame, in a way.  It was something that scared me like no other.

I found out I sprained the AC joint on my shoulder.  And by not using it, my shoulder literally froze up.  The range of motion just, well, it was NOT good at all.  My PT (she is incredible, btw) told me to talk to a orthopedic surgeon about my shoulder - and that I might have a torn rotator cuff.  And that would suck big time.

So off I went to a hospital in Boston and had my first MRI.  The next day, I met with the surgeon.  It went well until there were four doctors in the exam room and he brought up interesting here.  "Oh shit," I thought to myself.  "I have a tear, I HAVE A TEAR!"   But no.

Teres Minor Muscle

Turns out I had a tumor in my shoulder, I know.  It was in the teres minor in the shoulder, taking up a lot of the muscle.  Hmm.   The doctor told me that he was setting my up with a colleague and friend at Dana Farber for an biopsy.  So, I was headed to one of the foremost cancer centers in the world.  Holy crap.

Fast forward and the biopsy came back negative.  What I have is a lipoma in the muscle - very rare.  Lipomas are just fatty tumors.  Did you ever have a dog that had bumps under their fur?   They're lipomas.

So, after three months of PT, I received the green light to start lifting weights again and today was day one.