Happy St Patty's Day everyone. It's hard to believe we're on week three already and with 2 workouts out of the way for this week, it seems like the rest can't be that bad. Week 2 flew by, we didn't have quite as good as results, but I can tell I'm getting stronger and the food changes we made are going a little easier (nothing too serious). We went to Kansas City to visit some friends last Friday & Saturday, the huge plate of BBQ ribs made it a little tough to stay on the diet, but I'll catch up for it. We also did a workout in the morning today so we could enjoy a green beer tonight. I'm not a huge fan of the morning workouts, especially plyo. I guess it doesn't matter when I do that workout, I still don't like it. It'll be the last time for a few weeks though.

I've had some good food due to the food plan we're doing along with the workouts. Amy and I used to got to Jimmy Johns for lunch once a week, well that has turned into salad at Jason's Deli. They have a pretty good salad bar for lunch. I hadn't eaten there before, but I like it. Still a little expensive, but not too bad. I also had a greek salad from Katie's that was pretty good. I tried an unwich from Jimmy John's, but I could see why they called it an unwich, it's nothing like their sandwiches. I could've ordered about 2 or 3 of them.

I've been trying to get Amy to blog on here once in a while, but she'd rather read what people are saying then complain because there aren't any more posts. I told her, she was the main problem. As Tony would say, "you can do anything for 30 seconds". So I'll keep trying to get her on here to atleast say hi and prove she's actually doing stuff.

Until next time, the word of the day is "Don't smash your face!"

I recently made some major changes to my blog.  To start with I changed the address.  I was using a Blogger blog that posted to blog.oneniner.com and decided to import it into a Blogengine.net blog to go with my website a little better, so the new address is oneniner.com/blog as I'm sure you figured out if you're reading this.  Along with this change I decided to combine the 3 or 4 blogs I had with blogger into one.  I used to have a blog for my sports activities, the soccer team I used to coach, but still love to follow, then my personal one that talked about everything else.  Since I'm the only one that wrote anyways, and they are all about my life I just combined them.  I have so many interests that I was afraid people would get lost, but then I decided that's just me, people will want to know the real me and all the different things I like to do.  So here's the composite blog.  To confuse things even more, we started a P90X blog with some friends at omahaP90Xcrew.blogspot.com and I'm also working on a site for Amy and I's wedding at oneniner.com/wedding.

There are going to be a flurry of changes made to my wedding site as August 8th gets closer, then as time frees up, I'm planning on overhauling my main site, so I hope you enjoy!

Amy and recently got introduced to the P90X videos and decided that it would be a good time for us to get started working out consistantly.  We were thinking, we'd both like to be in a little better shape for the wedding.  And we have about 5 months now to get there.  We also ran in a 5 mile run at Boys Town last year and I just assumed we were going to do it again, so what better time.  Additionaly, I decided that I would like to do RAGBRAI.  The whole 12 miles I did last year got me excited enough to get a bike and actually train this year, so I can get the full experience this year.  So P90X is the first step, 10K training will overlay nicely to add some cardio on week 4, then the 10K training will mesh into the RAGBRAI training which will all peak in mid July, giving me roughly 2-3 weeks to get back out of shape for the wedding and honeymoon.  I think that's a good senario though.

So once we got interested in P90X a friend of mine said he, his wife, and a bunch of friends from church had done the workout and loved it.  So he decided to get a blog started that we could all check-in on to motivate each other and share stories.  This was a great idea to me, since I need a little motivation once in a while.  I usually rely on Amy, don't get me wrong, she does a great job, but this was good for both of us.  So here's the blog we set up...  http://omahaP90Xcrew.blogspot.com   I'm going to try to share my posts between both blogs, I hope it doesn't get confusing.

So the idea of the blog isnt' really a bet or competition, although I'm sure there is a little of that going on.  The main goal is to use the sharing of others to motivate ourselves to stick with the workout, because as Tony says, "The X is for Extreme".  It is definately that sometimes.  We're going to share some of our workout habits, favorite quotes, funny stories, & then gripe about how sore we are.  Then at the end, I'm sure there will be success stories on how great we feel and proud of each other, atleast I hope so.

 

Here's my post from today after day 2:

So we've finished day 2 and I'm pretty sore already. It's weird my arms are sore from day 1, but I won't notice it until weird times. I've never felt sore turning off the hot & cold water at the same time on the sink before. :) My legs are a little sore, but I'm sure tomorrow, I wont' be able to walk.

I love Tony's quotes. Sometimes its hard for me to remember them, I tell myself I should write them down as soon as I hear them, but I usually forget. "Her name's Pam, they call her BLAM!" It makes me just yell "BLAM!" when they show her. There's another good one about not getting bored, but I forget it.

I was proud of myself for getting a pull-up bar installed in time for day 1. It's kinda makeshift, but it works. I'll have to get some pictures up to show our workout area. I'm interested to hear/see where everybody else is doing their workouts.

Anybody doing the official P90X diet? "What's your soup?" Amy and I are trying to eat healthy and referred to the diet, but I think you'd have to have a full time dietician to figure out all the portions if you were going to follow it strictly. I had my first bad temptation yesterday, somebody at work brought in this luscious looking pink sprinkle cake with fluffy frosting, it was so hard. I had to walk by it everywhere I went, I'm glad it's not there today.

I keep thinking of random stuff that I haven't mentioned on here, we did all of our before measurments the other day, it'll be fun to see the differences at the end.