Back in the Saddle

So after my two day hiatus, hell or high water I'm back at the X. Monday was Kenpo, so I felt I could handle it because it was fun, and it went Ok, but didn't feel 100%. Mrs. Maan, unfortunately picked up the X-Killer bug on Sunday and is still out of commish, so we are thinking about running this week out and then repeating the recovery week for the sake of getting everything in. My problem is I feel like I will be over-recovered by that time, so I may have to substitute some of the BONUS workouts that came in my pack for two of the Stretch X workouts in the second week. I also wonder if my calorie count will be supported by these less muscle mass creating, muscle endurance style workouts, i.e. I am overeating for the calorie burn. I am fully open to suggestions at this point....

Maan sick as a dog

Just when everything was tracking along smoothly, I went to a large public Navy Change of Command ceremony and my mingling wih the unwashed masses brought me into contact with a nasty 72 hour flu bug that is going around Norfolk. By the end of recovery week Core, which was probably unadvisable since I was already showing symptoms, my head started filling with snot and my temperature started spiking. After attending a party that night for the very same celebration, I came home with the chills and crawled into bed shivering like it was 20 degrees in my house. The next morning I was completely incapacitated. Just today I am starting to come out of my cloud, but I am still not 100& may have to slide another day....positive aspect of this is that all my pounding fluids managed to flush my ssystem of all the water I was retaining so I am now dow 8 pounds from the start 24 days ago...

Recovery week!

Ok, I have not been able to be in here posting as much as I wanted to, but I intend to change that starting today.

Well things have been going great with the X, after feeling like I was beaten like a rented mule for the first two weeks, my muscles seem to be responding to constant barage of supplements that are recommended in the program, and now, even though I am very sore, I am not 'hurts to sit on the toilet' sore or 'hurts to hand someone a credit card' sore.

The best news of all is that I am dropping a ton of fat. Ironically, though, I have only dropped about four pounds at the same time. I have noticed a lot of areas on my body where strange hard spots have emerged...I think someone referred to them as 'muscles'. I kid, I kid....I think the quick ascent of muscle mass has been due to my mass in previous years when I was young and in great shape and lifting weights and all that leisurely college student and DINK stuff.

Going to a party tonite for one of my Navy buds who I used to Det with who actually got his own command yesterday, which makes me feel really old. He's actually older than I am by a few years, but I remember referring to the skipper as 'the Old Man'...now I am the old man. But at least very soon I will be a very in shape old man...

I plan on getting some pics up soon in the MDB message boards (I don't want my head to end up on some male porn site), so stop back and I'll let you know which one....latah, chowdaheads!

Maan V. P90X - The Reckoning

Hi, folks, it's me the One and Only Maan. And this is a sub-blog, if you will to document my progress as time goes on in the ass-kicking, tongue dragging, nutritionally balanced, recovery drink downing, wet hat making exercise program called P90X created by Beachbody and led by the quirky celebrity trainer, Tony Horton.



The 'X', as it is commomly known, has taken ordinary slobs like me and turned them into rock hard gods of fitness even at my advancing age, which was encouraging, so I had to give it a shot. I have Type II diabetes and Heart Disease in my family, and I have Cholesterol that has to be treated with medication, so this was something I felt I had to do to save my life and be alive when my kids, 4 and 2, graduate from college. I'll do my best to post regularly, I am currently already into Week Three, and although I haven't lost any weight, my belt has come in four nothes so far, so I am probably adding muscle in all kinds of places. I will post my Day 1 pics soon, so keep checking back!