August 8th 2010 Daily Update

Unsure why however didn't sleep well last night. However up at 8:15am for a morning cardio workout (thanks to my wife for the encouragement to not leave it for later in the day)

Plan for today on the exercise front is cardio and stretching. Likely some cardio on the elliptical, some P90X cardio and then a P90X stretch.

Morning

Absolutely tore through the reverse ellipticals. Considering I find the reverse direction more difficult and have yet to really have a significant amount of time in Zone 3 then the results below are startling. I had little of the awkward posture I usually find on the reverse direction and I can only assume the Yoga from the day before helped. Depending on how measured then this is my best elliptical result whether it is compared to the forward or the reverse direction! If I had just seen the results I would have sworn I was going forward on the elliptical rather than in reverse. Impressed!

• Elliptical Sprint 8 reverse: 314 kcal, 159/169 bpm, 00:36, 02:02, 17:31
• P90X Cardio X: 533 kcal, 140/172 bpm, 17:07, 08:06, 19:22

The P90X Cardio X went well, best result to-date for this exercise. I find it fun to do, not too long, and burns a lot of calories. The only exercise I struggle with (in terms of form) are the wacky jacks! By the time I get to the last two exercises (Squat Run and Superman/Banana) I'm pretty much all spent, although hope to see my stamina increase over the coming weeks.

Afternoon

• P90X Yoga X: 410 kcal, 101/136 bpm, 58:39, 00:22, 00:00
• P90X Stretch X: 122 kcal, 88/117 bpm, 13:54, 00:00, 00:00
  

Summary

Daily Total: 1,379 kcal
Monthly Total: 7,942 kcal