P90: 30 Day Update

So, last we left off in my P90 saga, I had just entered my third week. I am now at the point where I’ve just finished Week 5, which included my 30 day weight and measurement update. I also spoke a little bit about feeling off in my fourth week, which caused me to take two days off from the whole six-days-a-week workout thing. Alas, I’m sort of embarrassed to report I haven’t really recovered from that.

Fortunately (and somewhat shockingly), I have still been working out and following the program, I just haven’t quite managed to get myself back up to doing it every single day. It’s been more like every other day which, granted, is better than nothing at all, but still not what I’m “supposed” to be doing.

Somewhat ironically, given the name of this blog, I’m really having a hard time finding that in-between when it comes to working out. It appears to be all or nothing with me. So, once I let myself have a break, it becomes all that much easier to continue allowing myself to do so. And unfortunately, with me hopping on a plane today to head down to Savannah for the next couple of days for work, I’m not sure this issue is going to fix itself quite yet (though I am bringing workout gear so I can hit that hotel gym at least once.)

Thankfully, finally starting a new set of P90 workouts (I’m officially in “Phase B”) is indeed helping with ramping my motivation back up a little. I admit that just doing the exact same workout in the same order with the same jokes over and over did get a little bit taxing, and so far I’m liking Phase B a lot more because there’s no more “intro” talk — Tony knows that you’re already a month into the program, so he jumps right into things a bit more, and I appreciate that.

Regardless of how things have been waning slightly over the past week or so, I was pretty vigilant for those first 30 days, at least, so let’s see where that got me, eh? I took my measurements and some photos on Day 1, and again on Day 30, as recommended. While photo progress appears to have been minimal, as has my actual weight loss (I’m down about 4 pounds, which, on the one hand, hooray! But on the other, womp womp), I have made a bit of progress measurement-wise. So, without further adieu:

Day 1 (1/7/2015)
Chest: 43″
Waist: 38″
Arms (R/L): 15.5″/15″
Thighs (R/L): 30.5″/30″

Day 30 (2/10/2015)
Chest: 42.5″
Waist: 37″
Arms (R/L): 14″/14″
Thighs (R/L): 29″/29″

So, basically an inch off of everywhere, which might not be anything groundbreaking or Biggest Loser worthy, but I’ll take it! I do wish I had taken my hips/butt measurement back on Day 1 (it wasn’t prompted in the little P90 booklet so I kind of forgot about it) but I did measure it on Day 30, so we’ll see what progress is made in that department on Day 60. And hopefully by then I’ll have made enough visible progress that I’m down with sharing some not-sucking-it-in photos, hahahaha.

The workouts in Phase B are definitely more intense than those in Phase A (still with lots of options for modifications, which I am taking advantage of), so maybe my fitness level will start being ramped up even faster, doing more intensive work? Provided I actually get back to DOING it the full six days a week, that is. And outside of P90, since Yelp’s Fit Club is also this month, I’ve got a ton of other cool workouts (yoga, kempo, pilates, bootcamp, and more!) to throw into the mix to keep things interesting — and to keep me on track.

Speaking of which, my first Yelp’s Fit Club fitness class was on Friday!

Northern Virginia Yelpers gathered together for a Zumba-esque dance workout called Sweatvibes! And it KICKED. MY. ASS. In the best way possible, of course! Sweatvibes is an hour of super loud, super pumped up, super high energy dance cardio, and it was a TON of fun. And seriously, what a great workout — I was definitely sore the next day! All that arm-pumping really does you in, man! Thank goodness I’ve already been working out for the past month, otherwise I’m not sure I would have even gotten through the whole hour, haha.

 Too bad my Fitbit is half-broken, so I only got like half-credit for sweating my butt off. So bitter… because if we know anything, it’s that if you didn’t take a picture/log it/post about it on Facebook, it didn’t happen, right? 😉

Aaaanyway, now it’s off to Savannah for me! I’m probably in the air as you read this, in fact! Here’s hoping I have the strength not to simply bathe in buckets of sweet tea and butter for the next two days, hehe. And I’ll see you on the flipside!