Week 31 Fitness Summary

Week 31 (July 26th -> August 1st) has been a successful week. I've completed this week as if it was a P90X week 1 although I formally start tomorrow. As we're now into August I'm also using the new format for recording all exercises via the HRM.

Looking at the summaries below I've completed nearly 13 hours of exercise a week, that may seem excessive however it includes the Yoga and Stretch exercises from P90X. In terms of where I find the time.. well it is commitment and taking the benefits of a very short commute journey to the office which saves me around 9 hours a week in commuting, so my additional commitment on top of that is around 4 hours which doesn't seem too bad. I do however expect to reduce the time spent exercising once I've reached my targets as I'll move into a maintenance schedule rather than the current get fit and lose weight schedule.

Workout sessions this week: 22

Total HRM calories burnt: 6,678 kcal
Cardio HRM calories burnt: 3,079 kcal
P90X HRM calories burnt: 3,599 kcal

Total time exercised: 12hrs 48 minutes

HR Zone 1 time: 5hrs 54 min
HR Zone 2 time: 3hrs 17 min
HR Zone 3 time: 1hrs 53 min

Weight loss: 0.8kg
Body fat loss: 0.5%

Looking forward to tomorrow, dumbbells arrive, formal start to P90X and another exciting week ahead!

I've also spent about an hour makes changes to the spreadsheet I use for capturing my progress. It will now be much easier for me to cut and paste information directly into my blog without having to re-type and also gives me much greater granularity and analytical options. As much as I like MS Excel, it can be a little bit of a pain trying to manipulate and format time numbers. Once you get the hang of it it is fine, however takes a bit of reading help files and trial and error!