Fitness

P90X Week 3 Wrapup

March 21, 2011
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I have finished up Week 3 of my P90X experience, and I have to say, it’s going pretty damn well. I’m quite proud of myself for what I’ve accomplished. I’ve completed three weeks of P90X, and two of them without missing ANY days. In Week 3, I paid more attention to my diet, tracking calories [...]

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Fitness update

March 14, 2011
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  It’s the end of Week 2 of my P90X experience. It was a really good week, as far as exercise commitment goes – I didn’t miss a single day of workouts, and I pushed harder than ever on some of the days. Results so far So far, I’m not making any major weight loss [...]

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Making it X-Like

March 7, 2011
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Longtime readers of this blog will know that this is not the first time I’ve tried to get into better shape. But this time, I mean it! My history As I mentioned, I’ve tried lots of things to get into shape. Last spring I started doing South Beach, and I lost about 11 pounds from [...]

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Let’s get physical

July 12, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Given that I’ve haven’t blogged in quite some time, it might come as news to you that I’m back to pretending to get into shape. In early June, I started improving my diet and a few weeks later, began physical exercise with a vengeance. What I’m doing Diet On June 5, I [...]

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Status Report

August 4, 2009

About two weeks ago, I posted my first “progress report” on my fitness/weight loss program. It seems like a good enough time to post another one. I’m into Week 6 of my Couch to 5K program, and it’s really going well. I have not missed a single day of scheduled running, which I’m very proud [...]

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Making progress…

July 22, 2009

Things are progressing nicely with my fitness/weight loss program. I am into Week 4 of Couch to 5K and have been eating reasonably for a few weeks as well. I’ve also been educating myself and reading a lot of nutrition literature – as well as a lot of really useful comments I got from you, [...]

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Fly, Fatboy, Fly!

July 9, 2009

Most of my adult life, I’ve battled with my weight. Sort of. “Battle” implies that I actually was fighting. It’s perhaps more accurate to say that I’ve rolled over and surrendered to my weight. In a nutshell, I am heavy for one specific reason – I’m lazy. Like most people, when I was younger, I [...]

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