Marathon training plus P90X has been tough. On average, I've been doing p90x workouts 4 days a week and then running 5 days a week averaging around 25 miles (weekly). If you are familar with the P90X program, you know that it's a 6-7 day a week workout program. Yeah, when "they" mean extreme, "they" mean CRAZY EXTREME. I'm cutting myself some slack, since I'm training for a marathon (not too much slack there). I want to push myself, I don't want to kill myself, BIG difference.
Most days I'm mentally and physically tired. I keep going because I'm starting to see and feel results, specifically in my arms and abs, the two areas that no matter how long I ran, I could never tone.
As far as nutrition goes, I've decided to try the P90X Phase 2: Energy Boost-Portion approach. Somewhere in the ball park of 2,400 calories/day. If anything, this approach should steer me in the direction of eating more protein. I'm not married to this, just trying it out. It seems a lot easier than the meal plan approach. Yeah, tried that for one week and got tired of measuring all my food.
Tonight, I'm taking before and after 30 day pictures. I'm not sure I want to share those with the world. Who knows...I might, after all I feel like you are also taking this journey with me. I know that each of you have your own fitness goals and I hope that this encourages you. Like you, I work, have a family, church activities, laundry, have to meal plan/cook/grocery shop/ clean house/ take care of the garden, etc..... Look, we all have the same amount of hours in one day. Sometimes it's hard, but I put one foot in front of the other. No one said this was going to be easy.
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