Gypsy's Guide Through P90X

[Builtgypsy]

Week 1

Day 1: Chest and Back
Day 2: Plyometrics
Day 3: Shoulders and Arms
Day 4: Yoga
Day 5: Legs and Back
Day 6: Kenpo
Day 7: Rest

Week 2

Day 1: Chest and Back
Day 2: Kenpo
Day 3: Shoulders and Arms
Day 4: Stretching
Day 5: Legs and Back
DAY 6: Kenpo
DAY 7: Rest

Week 3

Day 1: Chest and Back
Day 2: Kenpo
Day 3: Shoulders and Arms
Day 4: Stretching
Day 5: Legs and Back
DAY 6: Rest
DAY 7: Rest

Week 4, Day 1: Kenpo

...is starting to bore me. I'm going to have to go through the DVDs and see what else there is. But I'm about a quarter of the way through the 90 days, and things are looking good! I missed the last day of last week getting my sleeping schedule back in order (and since it's about half past two now, we'll see how long that lasts).

[Builtgypsy]

Week 4, Day 2: Stretching

I stretched so hard I bled.

But at least now I'm officially a quarter way through, and I'm down two pants sizes...which would be nice if I actually had something two sizes smaller to wear.

I have no idea what that translates to as weight lost, since I don't have a scale here and the one I tried at the doctor's went all HAL on me.

I figure the best option is to wait until the 90 days is over to buy things to wear. Until then, I'll lounge around in my comfy pajamas.

[NeedinJustice]

That's great Guy! Congrats!

[Builtgypsy]

I think I'll try this next. I hear it's a thing now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUKo...aining [HD

[Fizzer]

I hear "Insanity" is the next thing. Does in 60 days what P90X does in 90. OR so they claim. Caffi wants me to do it. I asked her if she wants a live husband or a dead fiance.

[Builtgypsy]

Originally Posted by Fizzer

I hear "Insanity" is the next thing. Does in 60 days what P90X does in 90. OR so they claim. Caffi wants me to do it. I asked her if she wants a live husband or a dead fiance.

She hasn't asked you to sign a will or brought up updating your insurance policy recently, has she?

[Builtgypsy]

Week 4, Day 3: Kenpo...again

What the hell, why not? There really isn't another good option until either I'm on the bottom floor somewhere or the downstairs neighbors move. Or if I decide I don't care about anyone else and want to be a colossal ass.

I don't know what it was about tonight, but I was moving like a geriatric. Unless tomorrow's the same, I'm chalking it up to the heat that still hasn't quite dissipated yet; 85 degrees at 2200? No, Earth. No. Don't do that. Stop that. I like it right at the high 60s to low 70s, so work on that right away, mmkay?

[Builtgypsy]

I lost the crap out of this thread! I found you, thread.

Week 4 Summary:

Day 1 – Kenpo
Day 2 – Stretching
Day 3 – Kenpo
Day 4 – X Stretch
Day 5 – Kenpo
Day 6 – Skipped due to screwed up schedule

Week 5 Summary:

Day 1 – Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X
Day 2 – Kenpo
Day 3 – Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X
Day 4 – Stretching
Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
Day 6 – Kenpo


Week 6, Day 1: Chest, Triceps and Shoulders


Week four was a nice rest after the interesting start for the first three weeks. I like stretching, maybe more than I should. Could be the hippie vibes that permeate all through California. Still, trying to focus my Chi by making my liver smile in Yoga may be a bit beyond me.

Week 5, I enjoyed. It follows the same schedule until Week 8, and as usual I've had to change some things up. But I'm making it work for me, that's good enough. Week 6, I got like three days into it, and then there was a crunch and a pop and a shift in things that generally shouldn't sound like a machine having a catastrophic failure, so I took the week off, and tonight I started it again.

I've been lazy about keeping track of any progress. Well, it'd be more accurate to say I made a firm decision not to keep track of any progress. As long as the details were paid attention to, the big picture stuff would take care of itself. And it has; like I've said, clothes are more baggy, all that good stuff. Details in this case meant two things: do the workout, be covered in sweat by the end.

At some point I'll still want a scale though. I'm curious about how much further I have to go to get back to the 230 I was in the pictures I have up here...somewhere. Actually, since power lifting is beyond me any more, I'll probably be closer to the 200 pounds I was when I left bootcamp. That was like ribs nearly poking out skinny for me though, so who knows. There's a happy medium somewheres!

After this week, I'm halfway through. With everything improving the way it has been, I feel like I'm in a game. I'm leveling up!

[Alawicious]

Lost threads found FTW

I need a good work out diet

[Builtgypsy]

Here are some of my favorites. These are kind of main meals, and as a side I'll usually have fruit, or veggies or hummus, maybe some oatmeal.

2-3 eggs with a pinch of: cayenne pepper, chili powder, onion powers (or better yet, like 1/4 of an onion chopped up) with a little bit of sour cream and salsa.

2-3 eggs with: herbed goat cheese, onion, black and red beans (I get the raw kind in a bag, then soak like a quarter bag at a time overnight, put them in a pot full of water for about 3 hours or a slow cooker for like 6), jalapenos, with either ketchup or salsa.

2-3 eggs with a small potato chopped up, cooked however you want a potato cooked, mixed all together with whatever sounds good. Usually I just kind of fry up some hashbrowns and mix it with anything from what I've already listed.

Chicken salad is another one I love. I'll make a big batch of that, then either use it in a wrap with a slice of cheese, some tomatoes and onions and spinach, or I'll have a bowl of spinach crunched up by hand, mix the chicken salad in with it with tomatoes, onions, a slice of cheese, some crunched up broccoli, maybe some sliced carrot, mix it all up with some chipotle mustard, or honey mustard.

Another one I really like but haven't had in forever: cottage cheese with stuff. But I can't eat cottage cheese alone, but I really like it mixed with the things I mix it with. I'll have a bowl of cottage cheese, and mix it with sliced up pineapple and blueberries or blackberries.

I'll also mix up some really spicy chili with brown or wild rice.

A quick burrito for me is re-fried beans black and/or kidney beans, jalapenos, with a whole green chili pepper and slices of avocado. Toss some salsa on that bad boy and you get a sweet and spicy nommy.

I was inspired by a Middle Eastern sammich type place that opened up the street for this, but it is soooooo nommy

You make some yogurt cheese
(gotta have live culture plain yogurt)
About 6 minutes in here:
YouTube- Good Eats S6E4P2: Good Milk Gone Bad
You take some radish, carrot, celery, onion, crunchy lettuce, slice it all up until it's as little as you want.

Have some chicken or pork or lamb, just regular unseasoned or unspiced chicken or whatever cooked however you prefer (I think I just boil it up).

You take a tortilla, cook it over the stove until it starts to turn a little brown and crunchy, then you spread on however much of the yogurt cheese you want. You put all the crunchy veggies on, and the meat. Then you add some Chipotle (or whatever hot sauce you want, maybe even salsa, but I've only ever used Chipotle), wrap it up, nom away.

Dinners are pretty much anything goes, as long as it goes from the right kinds of foods (meats, veggies, fruits, beans, rice). So turkey burgers, steaks, chili, burritos of all kinds, chicken with garlic sour cream mashed potatoes and garlic asparagus, just whatever recipe I come across that catches my eye.

Cutting up an apple and a banana, mixing in a couple spoonfuls of peanut butter and a bit of honey makes for a really sweet nommy.



How I actually eat these throughout the day is this, I'll have four or five small meals (small on a scale of about what I mentioned above, about that much food as a main dish), about 3-4 hours apart. I'll always have some fruit with each, or some veggies on the side.

Mine looks something like this:

1300: Chicken salad wrap with carrot and peach (or any fruit or veggie in season; a bowl of baby tomatoes with a pinch of salt and lots of fresh ground pepper is nommy )

1530: Chicken salad spinach salad with banana and broccoli

1800: just about any combination of meat and rice or veggies.

2330: Eggs, with oatmeal mixed with peanut butter.

0230 (once or twice a week): some kind of sammich with an sliced apple and peanut butter

And you mix and match depending on what you're in the mood for. The real key is keep toward the natural stuff, the fruits, veggies, meats, beans, rices, some dairy. If you get yogurt, always get the stuff that says Live Cultures. Look around for recipes with these kinds of ingredients that sound good (like spicy turkey burgers). And don't think of it as a diet. Thinking of it as a diet makes you think that you can stop eating healthy as soon as you're down 10 pounds or whatever. It's not a diet as in changing your eating habits for a short time, it's just what you normally eat, simple as that.