Let’s go… Slaho!

Why did I do this? It’s addictive and unnecessary!!! And way too much fun…
I haven’t worked out in 5 days now. I have to make sure I get back into it before I return to bad habits…
I am sick and tired of spam being sent to my site as “comments”. I’m going to have to put in one of those filters to stop that crap from coming in…
It’s pretty freakin’ late I gotta go to bed…
And I still can’t log on from my work computer onto this site. It be perfect to blog during homeroom or when my school day is over. But no…..

Enough ranting. I gotta get some creative stuff going. And soon……………………………….

I was tagged by my good buddy Bego to do this little exercise and so I am complying. I have no idea who I’m going to tag with this but here goes nothing… here are the rules as they were passed on to me…

Link the person(s) who tagged you.
Mention the rules on your blog.
Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

So here are my quirks…
1. I have to weigh myself every day when I first wake up, and right before I go to bed. I also weigh myself every time I find a scale. This has been going on for 7 years.. it’s not just something I started doing when I started working out.
2. I watch Disney Channel and Nickelodean after my kids go to sleep because I enjoy the shows.
3. Even though I speak exclusively in English to all my kids, I pray in Spanish with them exclusively, much to their chagrin.
4. I must snooze for a full 45 minutes before I wake up. Dania can’t stand it because my alarm clock goes off way before she’s ready to wake up. She bought me a new alarm clock in hopes that the new alarm would let her be… it’s actually louder and more annoying.
5. I make myself breakfast and eat it before I make it for everybody else. It’s like I don’t have enough energy to do it for everybody until I’ve been “nutritioned”.
6. I make up words like “nutritioned” all the time when I can’t find a word that fits when in conversation, and sometimes when I do have a word, but I don’t particularly like it, or find it underwhelming or insufficient in order to make my point. I have a dictionary working for my math classes alone.

OK, so here is where I link to fellow bloggers… unfortunately the people I would send this to stopped blogging, and most of them do not seem to even visit their websites lately. As soon as I find some bloggers this WILL be passed on. If you happen to come into this site and read it, feel free to respond here and then pick up this little challenge on your own.

I have but one question left, and it’s for Bego… call me ignorant, but what in God’s name is a meme?!?!?!

90 days have come and gone (and a couple of extra to be exact) and I can officially say that I graduated from the P90X program. I am very proud of myself for sticking with the program all the way until the end. I am also very happy with the results which I hope you will see in the next couple of days. This has been a great experience for me, and hopefully it’s one that will see me continuing to work on staying physically fit. Along the way I have also been blogging fairly consistently too. I plan on continuing to work on my spiritual life, and yes I have been reading regularly too, so it’s safe to say that I have improved myself in all aspects of my life. Oh but there is so much more work to do, and I am very aware that it is not something I could do alone. So with the help of my God, my wife, my family and my friends I will move forward.
One thing I definitely have to do is begin doing my Math project again. I stopped doing it for a number of reasons, but now I must press on. This is not something just for me but for my family, so I need to remind myself that failure here is not an option. I WILL get this thing done. Just as I completed my P90X.
Hopefully I can inspire others to do the same. Hopefully more of you will read this and see how with a little work we can all be better and more well-rounded individuals. We can work to become more like the person that God created us to be. So let’s journey and do this together.
As I said I’m going to be posting the result pics soon. They are the end of this chapter. But hopefully they will also be the beginning to the next one. STAY TUNED…

I came across this article today because it was linked to a U2 article I was reading…
This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read, and it is really worth a good laugh!
Let me know what you guys think about THIS

I skipped my workout today for stupid reasons…
I just need to do my core workout tomorrow and yoga Wednesday and I’m done. I’ve chosen to get a full night of sleep tonight.
Tomorrow I am planning to jog in the morning to get a head start after a slow day today (did I mention I had a big AND LATE dinner… ugh)
It’s amazing how when you change your eating habits, one heavy meal can make you feel like crap…
Anyways, 2 more days and I’ll take my after pics. Let’s see how it all turns out. P90X became P93X… close enough.

Sorry for the week layoff…
Back to work…
Tropical storm Fay…
Kids basketball season began…
Good news… less than one week for P90x to end.
5 days to be exact… I know it should be 4, but I took an extra day off because I HAD to see Misty May and Katie Walsh win gold in the Beach Volleyball event. Very impressive victory. And I really like their uniforms… (HEE HEE)

So you’ll hear a bit more from me in a few days.

BTW, I’ve tried to blog twice at the end of my school day from my computer at work but my server won’t find this page for some reason… I’m going to HAVE to blog from home. Woe is me…

That’s right… 80 days down… just 10 to go. Four more days of workouts, then six days of recovery work and cardio and I will have finished. Exciting isn’t it. And the best part is that I get to sleep in just one more time today, thanks to being given the day off tomorrow. I love my job! Now I just have to find the time, now that I’m working again, to blog regularly and NOT at this late late late hour. I’m going to kill myself if I try to keep this up. No matter for the moment. The weekend is here, and I have but one full week to go and I’ll be done… but not really, because there is no way that I’m going to stop before I go on that little Disney cruise that my wife booked for the family. You KNOW I gotta look good. Minnie Mouse may be watching! I’d be worried if I were you Mickey. It’s a good thing I’m faithful to my wife, you oversized rodent, or you’d be in trou-ubble. I’ll write more tomorrow… I do have the day off after all.

(10 more days… YAY)

The last of the challenges (potentially) that I’m going to have to face before I finish my workout plan begins tomorrow. I go back to work. I now have only 2 weeks left before I finish my cycle. 77 days have come and gone. I will be done in 13 days (maybe 14 because of that extra day of rest while I was away). But now I have to worry about actually going to bed at a decent time. That means I have to work out a little earlier. That’s tough. But I’ve gotten through everything else. Let’s see, what were these obstacles again?

1. Getting started… always the biggest obstacle.
2. Summer school… small distraction, but not too difficult to deal with.
3. The injury… slicing my toe and the possibility of stitches. THAT was a true obstacle.
4. A week alone with the kids while my wife was on a workshop… who thought I’d have the energy?
5. One week in Sarasota… who wants to workout while on vacation?
6. Back to school… let’s see how this plays out.
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OK, I must admit. I’m pooped. I only have 17 days left, and I’m beginning to feel the fatigue. Maybe it’s because I see the finish line. Maybe it’s because I’m working harder the farther I get into it. Maybe it’s because I can’t find a way to begin before 11 pm. (It’s probably a combination of all three, but I think that last one has a LOT to do with how tired I am.) I must admit I’m proud of how I’ve improved in pull ups. I could do a total of two pull ups when I started… one in the first exercise, and one in the second pull up exercise and the rest I had to do with the assistance of a chair. Yesterday, I was able to do 5 in each of two different exercises and at least two every time a pull up exercise came up. And my push ups have almost doubled in amount since I started and with better form. Tomorrow I go back to arms and shoulders (my favorite of the lifting days). I only have 10 more workouts before I hit my last recovery week. According to this guy I’ll be in the best shape of my life at that point. We’ll see, but as I’ve said before, I’m pretty sure he’s right.

One thing I must say. All along my goal is to achieve some sort of balance in all areas of my life, and though I’ve progressed in all, I must admit my main focus has been here, in the physical. When these 17 days are up, my goal is to better balance and put more effort into the other areas, in particular, the creative and the spiritual areas. I’m already looking to find alternatives to these 60+ minute workouts. I can’t continue doing this every day and pretend to be able to balance all other areas of my life. I think the best would be to separate 30 minutes to the physical and spiritual, and at least 15 minutes apiece to the creative and intellectual. I can’t put too much in because I must remember my families and all my other responsibilities. But we’ll see what I can pull off. For now, I will focus on just finishing these next 2 1/2 weeks. I’ll take my pictures, and I’ll move on from there. And yes, I plan to have those ripped abs for my sister-in-law to see so that she can accept me in my A&F t-shirt.

Ripped, baby, YEAH!

So I did my Kenpo today. I have now officially finished 10 weeks, and I have three weeks left. I feel really good, and I can honestly say that I feel like I’m already the best shape of my life. I can’t imagine how much more I can change in the next three weeks, but I’m really looking forward to finding out. Today I weighed myself in Publix (are Publix scales ever wrong… it was dead on when I went traveling and I weighed my luggage. Which is a great topic for an L.O. It is amazing how many times I’ve seen people walking into Publix, a grocery store, with LUGGAGE TO WEIGH… I’ll get back to that another day). I weighed 172. That’s the lowest I’ve been in over 5 years. And to think just two weeks ago I was stuck at 180. I thought I had plateaued. Well, only three weeks to go. Let’s get to it. Normally I get a day off, but as I mentioned a couple of days ago, I used my day off a few days early. I’ll be doing my chest and back tomorrow, and following through for the next six days. And yes i have to add the pics I never put in two weeks ago. And I must say, I started running 20 minutes a day in Sarasota and I ran today. Maybe that’s helped or not, but I do feel good. Now after these three weeks I have to decide what I’m going to do because I never want to lose what I have gained. But I have 3 weeks to figure that out don’t I?
Let’s get to it, then. I’m off to bed. Pray I can keep this up. I’ll go ahead and pray for you (all of you whoever you are) and we can all become better people together. What do you say? Whatever you said, I’m sure I agree. Ta Ta!