Day 15 - Holy Guacamole!

Just finished the chest and back workout and I f'in crushed it! Of course that's relative because Tony and his henchmen still made me look like a little girl. I essentially matched my max pull-ups on this routine but I I just cranked WAY out more push-ups than I ever did during this workout in both my current and original P90x experience. I don't know where it came from, I just simply demolished the push-ups. Here's what I did today:

Step	Exercise	4/21/08
	POWER SCORE	1826
		Reps	LBS	Score
1	Standard Push-ups	20		60
		25		75
2	Wide Front Pull-ups	7		63
		6		54
3	Military Push-ups	12		60
		8		40
4	Reverse Grip Chin-ups	8		72
		7		63
5	Wide Fly Push-ups	25		75
		25		75
6	Closed Grip Pull-ups	7		63
		6		54
7	Decline Push-ups	25		75
		20		60
8	Heavy Pants	12	30	102
		8	35	113
9	Bench Press	12	30	57
		8	35	60.5
10	Lawnmowers	10	35	115
		10	35	115
11	Dive-bombers	13		65
		10		50
12	Back Flys	12	22.5	79.5
		12	22.5	79.5
	Ab Ripper X	1		100

Things to note:

• I've removed the diamond push-ups from our routine and switched that to bench press. That's because I couldn't really do those with good form as it was and also because I have bench press goals set for me at the end of the 90 days. If I'm going to hit them I need to start putting up dumbbells. On my 2nd set I put up 70lbs 8 times. That's the first real bench press I've done in a year, with dumbbells as opposed to a bar, and on an exercise ball instead of a real bench. So hopefully that 70 pounds is actually more than that... My plan is to sneak into my roommate's gym during each of the slow weeks to test where I am.
• My spreadsheet generates a score for each exercise based on both weight and reps. Increasing either ups that score.
• I didn't actually do Ab Ripper X today even though I marked it off. That's just for comparison's sake because I wanted to get the graph posted on the blog. I will take it off and mark it off for real when I do it tomorrow. I'm sure I'll do it though so you'll have to trust me there :)
• As we were getting ready, Winnie commented negatively on an odor emanating from my gym shoes. After a couple of whiffs I have to concur, my shoes stink. And subsequently after a workout my feet stink. I'm not sure if my feet have caused the shoes to reek or whether the shoes are causing my feet to be most unpleasant after. It's a chicken and egg problem that I will get to the bottom of.
• Protein shakes galore! I have been taking protein shakes from the beginning (during the first P90x experience as well) but they've never been very good because I get clumps of undissolved powder that don't taste very well. I just came up with a new stirring technique that has made these chocolate shakes simply delicious now. Here's the trick: with one hand rapidly stir a glass of milk while with the other hand very slowly shake the powder from the scoop into the milk. Rather than the clumpy soup I abhorred I now end up with a frothy shake that isn't too far off a glass of Nesquick. So the last 3 days my protein intake has been up in the 200g range per day (I weigh 145). I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of effect that will have on me.