Why you may ask.  The first reason was a long driving trip to Utah.  I drove about 1600 miles in one weekend.  There was just too much going on to be doing the workouts.  The driving, racing and scenery was awesome.

Ha, made you look.  the P90X program for these weeks is on hiatus.

Why you may ask.  The first reason was a long driving trip to Utah.  I drove about 1600 miles in one weekend.  There was just too much going on to be doing the workouts.  The driving, racing and scenery was awesome.

Look at that view

As for a workout, driving a car at high speeds in a race will really wear you out fast.  I also rode go-carts so much I have a bruise on my thighs and mid back and my forearms where just toast by the end of the day.  My back side is still tired a few days after the long drive home after driving all weekend.

So, now that it’s week4 day 3, I feel that I could start to start up the workouts once again.  Someone I talked with who is a graduate of P90X said that I should just start back up with week3 where I stopped.  I have at least attempted to stay on track with the diet plan and eat more proteins, fruits and veggies.  Although, the conference had breakfasts that were ALL 100% carbs every morning.  I actually skipped 2 breakfasts of donuts to go eat something like a ham and cheese omelet.

I will wait for the return from Mexico to start back up on week3.  Funny how week3 will commence on week6 Oct18th.  At least I don’t have any travel plans for the rest of the year. The plan should still be able to get me ready for the ski season and looking awesome for Spring Break!!

One part, a big part, is being able to follow the nutrition plan for the workout.  I don’t know if I am not recording things right or don’t know my portions, but I seem to be under eating every day so far.  I have am not someone that eats a lot in one [...]]]> Day 15

One part, a big part, is being able to follow the nutrition plan for the workout.  I don’t know if I am not recording things right or don’t know my portions, but I seem to be under eating every day so far.  I have am not someone that eats a lot in one sitting and usually like a little snack laying around at my desk.  I have been good at not eating loaded carbs and candy or junk, which has been harder than it seems.  Just you wait and see.  You start this no or low carb diet and all of a sudden everyone shows up with free Donuts and ice-cream socials and everyone you ever met is having a birthday with big yummy cakes.  Darn made myself hungry.

I did find some Good things to eat for this diet that I may not have eaten before.
Good Things:  lots of raw carrots,  lots of nuts, dried fruit, Chicken cooked 900 different ways.
- I did find that the Max Muscle Ice Cream Vanilla Whey Protein is pretty good as a creamer in your morning coffee.
- The same Protein drink is also very good blended with fresh peaches for a peaches-n-cream type drink.
- The Muscle Max PBX, before workout Pink Lemonade is tasty.  Even the kids said it’s not bad, although it’s loaded with caffeine and I wouldn’t recommend it for the kids.  (Unless it’s 1pm and they are lethargic and have a soccer game in 30 minutes, a spoonfull in some real lemonade does wonders for how they play).

Bad things:  I have tried a few thing that are just plain nasty.  Why does healthy food have to taste like ass.
- Muscle Max is swinging 2 for 3 so far.  Their after workout drink ARM in lemon-lime is just pure green gloop.  It starts nasty, goes down nasty, you end up with little pellets in your mouth that taste like chewing on aspirin.   The lemon-lime come in as the after taste.  You are expecting the green sludge to make you feel nasty for hours, but the lemon-lime comes to the rescue and finishing the aftertaste with something not really good, but not bad.  It would suck to have a lingering bad taste in your mouth.  I do think it helps though.  After one of these serious workouts you force the green sludge down and you don’t hurt for about 2 days.  On the 2nd day after an intense workout, all of a sudden those muscles you worked just ache and hurt, I guess it’s better then them just hurting for 4 straight days, you get 2 days off. 

- If you want that bad tasting lingering oh my god that was the nastiest thing I have ever eaten?  Try yourself a Larabar “Jocolat” German Chocolate Cake flavored piece of donkey’s ASS!!! I just ate one (well I took a bite and about blew chunks).  This bar looked like shit and tasted like Barf.  Seriously. Like you just mixed 20 types of alcohol and finished it off with Baily’s Irish Cream, Coconut rum and Lime juice along with a good handful of black walnuts you have to chew while drinking the gloopy concoction.   Your mouth is so full of nasty you think it’s all going to come out of your nose.  I had to run to the bathroom and spit it out.  I was telling someone how bad it was and we said it must have been the first bite or maybe it was outdated.  I checked the date, and it had almost a year left before it went “Bad”.  That would be an awful fate to try an outdated one of these suckers.  We smelled it and it was chocolate, sort of.  Maybe I was over reacting and it couldn’t have been that bad. ?? I remember doing something like this over extremely hot chicken wings (they couldn’t have been that hot? They were!!).  So I tried another bite. GOD IT WAS WORSE THAN I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT!!  I’m typing this a half hour late and still feel like I have pickled corned-beef and radishes firmly lodged in my nose.  If you want to see someone just hurle after working out, give them one of these suckers.  Better yet, haul one with you on a night on the town and give it to some unsuspecting youngster who just turned 21 and is having a wee bit too much fun. Make sure to have your camera out before they take a bite and stand back.

Oh, I did great and did the Arms and Shoulders workout with vigor.  I started with 35lb weights for the 1st couple sets of curls.  I was down to 12lbs for the last couple of sets by the end.  I have not been able to do the side raises yet because I do this workout in the gym at work (they have weights) because there isn’t enough room to be lying around.  I do the laying down overhead extensions on a bench, but it’s too small to lay sideways on.  I’m usually spent by time this “extra” routine comes around.

Day 16

Felt like I was on track this week so I did the Legs and Back last night to the best of my ability. I still need one leg up on a bench for the 900 pullups, but I hung in there for all of the leg workouts.  After the Ab blaster at the end I had a hard time getting off of the floor.  My abs didn’t work, my arms didn’t work, my chest, back and shoulders felt weak, and my legs were still burning.  I think I slept last night only because of the 8 hour Tylenol I took, and it was still shaky and restless.  I just did not want to get out of bed in the morning.  I guess that is a problem with doing the workouts after work.   Tomorrow is Kempo and I am physcing my self up to do it.  As I will be closer to on track if I can.  Friday is volleyball league and it’s a Stretch Relax day.  Awesome as that works perfectly into my schedule.

Speaking of schedules. I am a bit apprehensive about upcoming Vacations.  I am going auto racing in the middle of next week and am not sure if I can continue the grueling workouts and drive cars fast.  A couple hours of racing and your arms, chest and legs feel like rubber.  Then 2 weeks from now I am headed to Cancun for a week of sun and golf.  Again, I am not sure that I can continue the workouts if I am playing 18 holes everyday and swimming, volleyball, and playing in the pool.  I figure that if I am active, eating healthy and enjoying myself the P90X can take a hiatus for a bit.  I do think I might hit the gym once or twice at the resort just to lift a few weights and do some pullups so I don’t loose momentum.  I should take some of my protein, before and after workout drinks along on both trips for sure regardless if I’m working out or not.

Day 17

Toward the end of the cycle of workouts I tend to be pretty tired, and sore.  When I got home from a hard day at work I needed a little nap to carry me through the evening.  I was planning on doing the Kempo workout and the kids were anxious to join in.  It turned out Grandpa was in town so we all went out for dinner and didn’t get home until late.  Great evening, but Kempo will have to wait.

Day 18

Today is volleyball league night.  I am supposed to do Kempo, or skip Kempo and make today a rest/stretch day.  Because of Volleyball I think I will just do some stretching and play in the league tonight as my workout for today and count yesterday as the “rest” day.  I don’t want to delay the schedule any longer due to the upcoming trips.

I titled this entry as day one, but really it’s day 3. It took me a couple of days to realize that I was sending emails everyday to the group I am doing the program with. I decided [...]]]> I thought I might as well Blog about my P90x experience as I run through the program.

I titled this entry as day one, but really it’s day 3. It took me a couple of days to realize that I was sending emails everyday to the group I am doing the program with. I decided I should just Blog about it instead. That way all of my readers can see my wonderful progress. Yeah, all 3 (me, myself and I). Now where did I put those before pictures?? I’d better start on the fake spray on tan now for the 90 pictures so I can look like the ads. Lol

Day 1 was a killer. It was all push-ups and pull-ups. I felt like I needed to soak my chest in ice afterwards. It would have helped me a bit to have had a set of weights, but I don’t at home so I filled a 5 gallon jug with water that had 2 handles and made myself a 42Lbs weight to work with.

I couldn’t get the videos on the I-Pad to work as my computer was still being rebuilt and the new build did not recognize the I-Pad, so I had to start over. I didn’t like doing the workout much in the Office by the computer, but I did what I could.

In the end I felt using the chair for pull-ups was better as doing 10 with the chair vs 2 without, seemed like the 10 was better for a start.

I also started to use my knees for the last push-ups as I could do 8 that way and none otherwise.

Day 2
For starters I never realized how much carbs I ate in a day until one day I could not have Donuts, bread, tortillas, pasta and candy. I have found it challenging to find more proteins.

So day 2 workout consists of: Jump squat, jump squat, jump jump squat. Breath deep sweat a lot, pass out and then do one more squat.

The worst part is that I had 3 flights of stairs to climb after the work out, then 2 flights to walk down to get to the lunch room.
The walk down was harder than the walk up.

I felt I could do most of the exercises and keep up this time, I just need to work on getting lower. And keeping my heart rate out of the 180′s or higher. In all I liked that program as it reminded me of the stuff I used to do for the ski team. It was only missing the ski pole stance, wide jump sideways routine.

Oh, the Ipad worked great. I kept thinking I might have needed a longer headphone cord, but then felt if it was longer it might be more in the way. I found a bike machine where the seat went up way high and was rubbery, so I could place the Ipad there and watch the program about chest high in front of me. I had to use headphones as there was music, 3 TV’s and a workout class in the other room at the same time.

Day 3
ouch, ouch, my legs and my thighs are on fire!

Took the IPad back to the gym for the Arms and Shoulder workout. I think I will get better at this stuff as I watch the videos, because the 1st time you have no clue what it next or what they are doing and what you need to be ready. In the end I had weights (20lbs, 15lbs and 12lbs) along with a few bands. I was using the bands for the stuff that needed a chair as I didn’t have a real chair to use.

I did need a longer headphone cord for this day.

Day 4
Yoga day. Oh goody Yoga is about relaxing and stretching right??

Holy crap!!! I’m sweating my ass off. Plus doing this in the office with no good ventilation is all wrong.

Did I plan this all wrong. It was a pain in the ass and I was toast after 40 minutes and the damn thing is 95 minutes long. For some reason I thought all of the exercises where like 60 minutes. I can’t complete the Yoga today because I started my workout at 9:30pm and I don’t want to stay up until midnight. Plus I don’t think I can sleep after doing an intense workout.

Shit and I found that I didn’t do the Ab blaster thing yesterday. Same reason I was at work and have an hour lunch, my workout was at about 80 minutes when I was done with the arms and I still needed to get something to eat.

Now I’m finding that it’s not the routines that I won’t be able to do, it’s the length of time involved with each. I just don’t think I can dedicate 1.5 to 2 hours for working out everyday. I’m sort of pissed off about this.

Oh, well. Like tonight I am going to do what I can and get better as I go. I will have to plan a little more in advance to make sure I can have the time to finish a workout. Easier said that done with a heavy child activity schedule, and needing to be at work at 6:30 am. That kills the early workout options.

So I can use 11am to 12:30 on a few days and 4-6pm on some others where the kids aren’t busy. I won’t start a work out again after 8pm that isn’t going to work because going to bed will be hard and it will be hard to sleep.

So I still owe myself an ab workout and the 2nd half of Yoga.

Day 5
Postponed because I have Volleyball matches from 6 to 9pm, so I will get my workout.

Hum. Writing this before the Actual day 5 so I think I will do my make up ab workout tomorrow at lunch.

I did do the Ab Blaster today at lunch. Then played 9 matches of volleyball from 6pm to 9pm. Wish I had a heart rate monitor on to see how I did. I won 5 matches and lost 4. It was a bummer to play the best team on the 1st night with a Free Agent team who hasn’t had time to gel. I was getting upset that the team members just didn’t move and then I was making mistakes myself. I ended up being more mad at myself. I don’t know if the program made me stronger, but slower in the matches. I know I was hitting the ball hard. I can feel that I had a pretty good workout and that my legs, arms, shoulder, mid-back and heart ache a little after wards.

Day 6
After not playing well last night I check on the Beachbody web site to see what they say about playing sports during the 90 P90x workout.  The forum said that you can play, but it’s better to do the P90X in the off season.  Darn, I should have started earlier then. I still want to play volleyball and wallyball weekly as that was my workout routine before P90X.  What I found is that while doing the program that your muscles are tired and growing and building.  What happens is that your tend to be slower at the sport.  This made sense as I felt like my brain knew what to do, but my body wasn’t always following along or as quick as I wanted.  I need to know that I will just move slower and react a bit slower for the next match.  I will also see how I do at Wallyball after a couple week break.

The back and legs workout was not too bad or too long.  I found that if I use a chair for support I can do more pullups. More being 7 to 10 instead of 2 to 4 without the chair.

Looking forward to the Kempo workout tomorrow, I hope it’s not too long like the Yoga as I have a short time window for the workout today.

Day 7

Day 7 was a bust.  Life happened.  I was out of town all day and didn’t get home until too late.  It is difficult to schedule an hour plus workout everyday of the week when you have kids, full time job, hobbies and sports that don’t consist of working out.

I won’t let this little thing stop me I’ll get right back up and into the program.
Right after I finish my pizza and ice-cream sandwich.

First my daily driver is a Dodge Caliber SRT4.  From a registry created on one of the SRT4 forums they have 206 VIN numbers from the 482 produced, so almost half of [...]]]> I am not a huge car buff, but I have found out this week that both of my cars are now considered rare.

First my daily driver is a Dodge Caliber SRT4.  From a registry created on one of the SRT4 forums they have 206 VIN numbers from the 482 produced, so almost half of the cars are registered.  I did a little math and it appears that roughly 8-10% of the cars registered are Sunburst Orange, so will assume on the high side of 10%.  That would make my Caliber SRT4 1 of 48.

• 2008 production:  482
• 2009 production:  222
• Total production:  704

I have the production numbers for the 2008 Dodge Viper listed below, so according to the chart my car is 1 of 65, but the list here doesn’t show which cars have stripes, so I would guess the Viper is about 1 of 48 as well.

I guess it’s pretty cool if I can keep both of them in great shape for about 20 years.  It will totally suck to try and sell one off in a couple of years as most people won’t want some sort of rare car that parts may be hard to find.   I guess I need to treat them with care and keep them looking good as long as I can.

HERE’s to having 2 cars that are 1 out of 48 in the World.

I was thinking stuff like “SNAZZY” and “FLYBYU”, they just weren’t me.  Plus I don’t want a plate that screams “Give me a ticket” when I am driving a bright red car that is already screaming “Give me a ticket”.   I wouldn’t want to [...]]]> I was thinking of getting personalized plates for the Viper.

I was thinking stuff like “SNAZZY” and “FLYBYU”, they just weren’t me.  Plus I don’t want a plate that screams “Give me a ticket” when I am driving a bright red car that is already screaming “Give me a ticket”.   I wouldn’t want to wreck my awesome record of being pulled over 19 times and not having a ticket.  Although, none of those times were in a 600Hph bright red supercar.

Then I got to thinking what about these Plates?

I go by “TheMilkman” in many of my online games, much to the chagrin of Milkman Dan which is “A” Milkman, but not “The” Milkman.

TheMilkMan

Then I also thought, what the heck and go Funny and with something that most people won’t have on a really nice car such as a Dodge Viper.

Let me know what you think would be a good license plate for the car?

1/12/2008 I thought for the first posting that I would place my [...]]]> I had this information in a forum thread where it made a little more sense than in a Blog posting. Seeing how I’m moving all of the old forum stuff to a blog, I might as well include the info. It’s funny anyway.

1/12/2008
I thought for the first posting that I would place my current favorite saying.

Ryan had a fun saying that I just thought was poetic, or at least could be part of a poem or song.

“Every time I see the sun I sneeze”

I liked the involuntary act to something that you can’t avoid and at something that is needed and enjoyed by most.
To me the sentence says a lot with so few words.

I keep feeling that this is a poem in the works.  I say the sentence in my head and just expect the next line to fall into place, but I haven’t discovered it yet.

Now for a few of the fun and cute sayings from Brianna.

When Brianna was around 2 years old I told her she needs to eat a little more.

“Brianna you eat like a bird.”

Slight pause.

“No I don’t Daddy.  I use a fork.”

Now Brianna is 6 and wrote up her first three wishes.  (It’s at least the first time I have seen them written down) This is also how she wrote it, misspellings included on purpose.

“I wish I had a Wii
I wish we cood ware pijamas to scoole every 3 weeks.
I wish my bruthr wouldn’t squash my paprarplan” (sp. paper airplane)

1/21/2009
We were discussing New Year Resolutions and what they are.  Stuff like resolving to learn to read better, exercise more, or travel to a new place.

Brianna Resolved this year the following.
I resolve to not sleep with so many people this year

Dad: Awesome!  Can you keep that resolution for like the next 15 years and your dad would be very happy

What is funny is that she was talking about her stuffed animals and that she had about 20 in her bed and after the resolution reduced the animals down to about 6.

3/18/2009
Ryan, had a good one the other day.

Ryan talking to is older sisters friend.
Well I don’t care if you don’t want to be my girlfriend, because I have three more.

12/23/2009
Ryan picked up a random Christmas card from some old friends and there was a picture of their son on the front with his name “Edwardo” scratched under his picture.

Ryan: “Who is this?  Cousin Eddy?!

Ryan: Knock knock
Who’s there?
Frank
Frank who?
Frank Miller, now let me in!

Who is Frank Miller?
Ryan: I don’t know I just made it up.

Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Flying piece up
Flying piece up who?
SPLORTCH!

12/24/09

Ryan asked his sister the other day. “What do you want to smell like armpit?” Only after he dumped an entire bottle of Ode’ de Spiderman cologne all over himself.

I had been running PHPNuke and various versions for a long time and just decided that I really didn’t need all of the bells and whistles provided.  I did need the ability to make the site more SEO and mobile phone ready.  Plus a little [...]]]> I have decided that I needed to update my site.

I had been running PHPNuke and various versions for a long time and just decided that I really didn’t need all of the bells and whistles provided.  I did need the ability to make the site more SEO and mobile phone ready.  Plus a little bit more secure, as PHPNuke is really no longer updated or in development.

I found that I was the only one using the old site as it was not easily searchable.  I had a lot of really great content, and it was all just in the forums.  Because it’s just me and there isn’t a large following of people, I don’t really need a portal per-se, but a Blog would better fulfill my needs.

The posts that follow are all of the items from the forums I felt that I should keep around.

I hope this format works better for me moving forward.