My long awaited (by me ;)) exercise chronicle begins at last. I'd been hearing a lot about this exercise routine called P90X from a friend of mine on Facebook, until finally I decided I really must find out more about it and see if I could attempt it. From the description of it, I found that it might be a bit extreme for someone totally out of touch with exercising for quite a long time, so on looking around for options, found the much toned down version P90 - it's basically a 90 day routine, by which you should be able to see some results if it's working for you.
Start Date: 28th March 2011
Weight: 58.7 kgs
Fat % : 28.1%
The routine is very varied and one type of exercise usually only lasts a maximum of 2 minutes, so it definitely never gets boring. The suggested schedule is a sculpt routine, alternated with cardio and abs routine with one day of rest in a week. The trainer Tony Horton really connects well to the audience, and keeps your attention for the reasonably short 30 or 40 minute routines.
After 6 days of working out, I find my weight to be up to 59.1, but fat % reduced to 27.8 ! Maybe i'm building muscle and losing fat, atleast i hope so ;). Not following any major diet schedule, because my intention is not really weight loss as I have usually not had a problem with being within the appropriate weight range(except at one point when my daughter was 2 years old, and finishing all her leftover food started pushing my weight upwards!!). The main result I'm hoping for is a general toning and increase in stamina, and of course a significant reduction of tummy fat !
Start Date: 28th March 2011
Weight: 58.7 kgs
Fat % : 28.1%
The routine is very varied and one type of exercise usually only lasts a maximum of 2 minutes, so it definitely never gets boring. The suggested schedule is a sculpt routine, alternated with cardio and abs routine with one day of rest in a week. The trainer Tony Horton really connects well to the audience, and keeps your attention for the reasonably short 30 or 40 minute routines.
After 6 days of working out, I find my weight to be up to 59.1, but fat % reduced to 27.8 ! Maybe i'm building muscle and losing fat, atleast i hope so ;). Not following any major diet schedule, because my intention is not really weight loss as I have usually not had a problem with being within the appropriate weight range(except at one point when my daughter was 2 years old, and finishing all her leftover food started pushing my weight upwards!!). The main result I'm hoping for is a general toning and increase in stamina, and of course a significant reduction of tummy fat !
You usually do put on some kgs just after you start working out - like you said, it is the muscle weight.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rohini, I'm in a bit of a low about this at the moment. Keep reading everywhere that exercise is good for varicose, but in my case everytime I seriously start exercising (or yoga like i mentioned earlier), I seem to get into really bad shape after a couple of weeks :(. Exactly where I hit the stumbling block with this routine - and it's irritating cos I was really liking the variability of it, and the feeling I was getting like my tummy was reducing in just two weeks ;).
ReplyDeleteNow started trying exercising along with the yoga Viparit Karani which is supposed to be good for varicose and hoping that'll even out things. Not to mention travel schedules during summer vacations which are a readymade excuse for quitting anything.
Visualizing reasonably flat abs is the best carrot on the stick :)
Hang it there. The first few weeks are always a strain and then it becomes a habit
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I have very diligently loaded the videos on my iPod to take to Chennai.. lot of moving around during vacation time, hoping to squeeze in some time each day though :).
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