Day 1: Chest & Back, Ab Ripper X

Today marks the first day of the next 3 months of hard work. Luckily, I have Kristi (my finacee) to be there, exercising next to me, which really was a HUGE help today.

Although not required, I want to document my measurements. I think these will fluctuate more then my weight (as muscle weighs more then fat).
Weight: 250lbs
Chest: 42DDD
Waist: 50.5"
Hips: 52.5"
R Thigh: 27.5"
R Bicep: 15.5"

I did NOT know that I should count my reps as I was doing the videos. I was just trying to do as many as I could in the time allotted. If you purchased your P90X videos from eBay and they did not include the workout sheets where you actually record what you do, go here: http://www.beachbody.com/text/products/programs/p90x/P90XWorkSheet.pdf

The doorways in this house do not have molding framing them in, so I have to use resistance bands. The colours of the twin-bands are black (5lbs), blue (10lbs), yellow (15lbs), and red (20lbs). Luckily for me, I purchased the bands AND a chin-up bar from eBay from a seller called croxgear.

Here are my thoughts on these 2 DVDs for today: Not your typical exercise DVDs AND not what I expected. Yesterday I was afraid to start. Once I started, the major theme is: Do your best. You have 30sec, or 1 min (whatever) to do as many of this type of exercise as possible. What is your goal? Got it? GO! The AB Ripper X DVD = HOLY MOLY! This is definetly my weakness. At the end, he says something along the lines of 'if you did all of the exercises, you did 349 crunch variations!' I definetly did not do 349 today. More like 25 of what he actually said to do. Some of them, I just couldn't do and so I started doing traditional crunches.

So, the exercises I did today (every exercise was done twice):
1. Standard push-ups: 22, 15 (both from knee)
2. Wide front pull-ups: 20, 23 (using Blue resistance band)
3. Military push-ups: 3, 5 (knee)
4. Reverse grip chin-ups: 27, 25 (Blue)
5. Wide fly push-ups: 10, 8 (knee)
6. Closed grip overhand pull-ups: 15, 22 (Blue)
7. Decline push-ups: 2 (correct) then switched to on my knees and did 15, 15 on knee
8. Heavy pants: 15, 15 (Yellow)
9. Diamond push-ups: 3, 1 (knee)
10. Lawnmowers: Right 25 Left 25, Right 25 Left 25 (Yellow)
11. Dive-bomber push-ups: 3, 1
12. Back flys: 10, 7 (Black)

So, there you have it!