Good luck with P90X guys. Looking forward to seeing your progress on here! I think community support in getting active and living healthy lifestyles is a great tool to add in the big toolbox needed to maintain health. I'll definitely start posting my workouts on here in case anyone wants to use any of them
And here's to no one getting injured. Henry, what's up with your shoulder? I have a shoulder issue from years of tennis and softball and it's been flaring up lately. My dad just gave me another cortisone injection last night, 2nd injection in the past 6 months. Suck. However, I was joking with him that I'd take 20 more of those over yesterday's cardio workout, lol.
Does anyone here have the Nike Fuelband? That system is set up for competition, with yourself and if you want, other Nike Fuelband users. I've become a big advocate of these bands because it is a band you wear on your wrist and measures NikeFuel (I'm not sure how they calculate this, still haven't looked it up, but you set a goal for 3,000 for a sedentary person, 4,000 for a person who's pretty active, works out regularly or 5,000 for extremely active people). You can sync this to your phone or computer and check your profile, change goals, looked at your "best" records, compete with other people, etc. when you log on. The band also measures calories burned (although I don't know how accurate the measurement is and don't really care about that measurement), steps taken (something I do pay attention to) and works as a watch.
The drawback of the Nike Fuelband is the price (~ $150), but the reason I like it is that it just makes me cognizant of my daily activity level. Everything you do throughout the day counts. It motivates me to be more active: instead of sitting down at home watching the TV after a workout, I remain active. I don't think there are many other things that would motivate me to do jumping jacks at 10:30 pm just to keep a record going
Anyway, just something I thought I'd throw out there for those who might not know about it. It's a fun supplement to an active lifestyle.
I agree with others in here saying how important diet is in dropping weight and leading a healthy lifestyle. I've used the MyFitnessPal app on my phone and computer and I like it. I would recommend it for those people who are technologically inclined. Personally, I've found more enjoyment in old-fashioned journaling because I just like to write
Anyway, yesterday's workout:
(8) 400m "sprints" uphill with 90 sec rests in between. They weren't sprints from about #2 on, more like slow, painful jogs.
Wasn't a benchmark day, but a rare pure cardio day meant to help us with our benchmark test at the end of the month...or so the trainer said, likely to prevent mutiny.
Today is an active rest day, I'll walk or do low impact elliptical for 60 minutes.