Official Day 1

Last week my P90X kit came in the mail.  My wife went all out and bought the pull up bar (probably the most bad ass peice of equipment I’ve owned), the resistance bands, and the recovery drink mix. 

I busted out two of the workouts last week to see if I could hang with the big boys and did okay, but decided that Monday Feb 25 2008 was going to be the Official Day1 of both diet and exercise. 

The diet is tough to get used to.  Being vegan for the past two years I’ve learned to decrease my portion size (with rare binging).  So to step up and try and throw down 2400 calories a day is tough work so far, and I haven’t made it to dinner yet!

The first exercise is for the chest and back.  A lot of pushups and pull ups.  When I say a lot, I mean a shit load.  I did this work out last week so I could test out my new handy dandy pull up bar.  It worked me then, and worked me today.  I’m surprised at how much the recovery drink helped….. for a little while.  There is no better feeling in the world than the burn of a well worked muscle.

Today was also the first time I’ve done Ab Ripper X.  It ripped my abs and made me wanna cry.  I’ll get over it and soon I’ll have some bad ass abs.

Tomorrow is PLYo X.  I did this last week, but only made it through 30 minutes of the 60 minute work out.  Tomorrow I’ll push for the whole 60 min.

I have before pictures that were taken last Wednesday. I’ll post tonight.