Today’s workout focused on the shoulders and arms, alternating between shoulders, biceps and triceps.  Even though I woke up completely sore from the first two days of workouts, today’s workout felt so much better than the first two days.

I think my body is no longer in shock and it’s getting used to the pace of these workouts, so today I was much more clearheaded and more focused.  The exercises were challenging and I felt the burn in my muscles but I definitely felt stronger than the first two days.

After finishing the hour long shoulder and arms workout, we also did another 15 minutes of the Ab Ripper X workout which just KILLS your abs.  I was really happy with that today too because I was able to do way more reps on a lot of these exercises than I did on Monday and that was only 2 days ago!  I don’t know how, but my body was able to recover pretty quickly and I definitely felt much stronger in the abs and core today.

Overall the workout felt great and I can’t wait to do tomorrow’s workout which is Yoga X. It should be very interesting.

Now as far as my diet plan goes, here’s what happened with that.

Breakfast – Turkey Scramble

For breakfast this morning I made a turkey scramble made out of 8oz of egg whites, 2 oz of low fat turkey breast, and about a half tablespoon of low-fat parmesan cheese.

I’m really liking the egg white scrambles.  This morning it tasted so good I was about 3/4 ways done when I realized I didn’t take a picture to put up on the Blog.  Oh well, I’ll take one the next time I make it.

No Lunch Again

Every morning I’m eating breakfast earlier and earlier, but even still I ran out of time to make lunch today.  The challenge is that I can’t eat lunch for at least 3 hours after breakfast, so if I eat breakfast at 10am, I can’t eat lunch until 1pm which is normally fine, but then I can’t work out on a full stomach so I have to wait until 3pm to start my workout.

That still would have been fine, but I got delayed today because I had to change the main water filter in my house and that took some time.  I live in a rural area and we’re lucky enough to live on well water that’s really clean and tastes great and has no chlorine in it like the city water does.  I have a sediment filter and a UV filter setup to filter all the water in the house and both of those have to be changed once in a while and today was that day.

My wife was nice enough to pickup the filter for me from the suppliers.  She got home after noon and it took me a few hours to get organized and get the filter changed.  When that was done I didn’t want to eat lunch anymore because I wanted to start my workout, so I just did my workout instead.

By the time I was done with that, it was around 4pm so I just had a protein bar and my recovery shake and held off until dinner which was at around 6pm.  I know I have to eat more frequently and in smaller portions, but today I just decided to kind of combine my lunch and dinner foods into one and had a big dinner.

Dinner – Egg / Cheese / Bacon Salad and Grilled Chicken Breast on Rice

Doesn’t that grilled chicken breast look awesome?  My wife arranged it all pretty like that on the plate for the picture.  She definitely knows how to make food look even more appetizing.  We just use an electric grill to make these chickens.  I can’t believe how easy it is.

P90X Supplements

I was surprised today when the UPS guy knocked on the door with my box of supplements from P90X.  I only ordered them on Monday, and they got here lightning fast even though I’m in Canada and they were shipping them from the US.  I’m very impressed with their quick turnaround and service on ordering these.

P90X – After Workout Drink – Taste Test

After my workout I tried out the P90X After Workout Drink which comes in Smooth Orange flavor.  I made the shake, took a sip and I liked it.  It tastes very similar to the Endurox R4 post workout drink I’ve been drinking for the last two days, except that the P90X drink has a bit more of a smoother taste.  The Endurox one tastes more like Tang, and the P90X one has more of a smoothie type taste.  Both are good, but I definitely like the taste of the P90X drink.

It gets two thumbs up from me!

P90X – Peak Performance Protein Bar

I bought two kinds of bars.  One is a Chocolate Peanut Butter flavor, and the other one is Wildberry flavor.  The first one I tried was the Chocolate Peanut Butter flavor one, and this bar tastes awesome! I kid you not, it tastes like a candy bar.  I couldn’t believe this was a protein bar.  I could eat a dozen of these!

The Wildberry one I’m just trying right now as I type this and it’s really good too, but I think I like the Chocolate Peanut Butter one better.

Both these bars definitely get two thumbs up from me!

P90X – Whey Protein Powder Shake

This is a Chocolate flavored whey protein powder shake.  I made a glass of it without mixing it with anything else except water, as I wanted to find out what it tastes like without being blended into a fruit smoothie or whatever.  It actually tasted kind of like hot chocolate but less sweet.

It doesn’t taste bitter or bad, but it doesn’t taste very sweet either.  I think I would enjoy that one better if I mixed it into a fruit smoothie so that I can get the natural sweetness of the fruits in there, but compared to some of the other protein powders I’ve tried out there that taste absolutely horrible, this one is pretty damn good.

Absolutely no complaints from me on this product either.  These guys definitely score very high marks with me on the taste side of things, which I think is very important because I’ve thrown out way too many tubs of powders over the years because I thought I could get used to the taste and never did.

Thumbs up on this product from me as well.

P90X – Peak Health Formula – Multivitamin

I ordered these multivitamins to compare them to the ones I presently take from a company called Progressive.  Over the years it took me a while to research and find a good quality multivitamin and I finally settled on the Progressive brand ones and stuck with them for years now, as I haven’t found anything that compares to having as much good quality vitamin and mineral content as these multivitamins.

I was comparing the P90X multivitamins to my Progressive ones and they are very similar.  The P90X ones have a few extra things in them, as well as slightly greater amounts of certain vitamins, so I would say that they are probably 10-20% better than the ones I’ve got right now.

I’ll try these for a while and see if I like them better than the Progressive ones and if so I’ll continue to buy these ones for the “slight edge”.

P90X – Strength & Muscle – Men’s Formula

This I haven’t tried yet.  It’s basically a Creatine type supplement which you take after your workout, but I didn’t have a chance to try it today so I’ll probably write a review of it tomorrow.

Here are my nutrition stats for today:

Calories: 2141
Fat: 44.85g
Carbs: 237.75g
Protein: 199.43g

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