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Today was the first day since I have started that I felt my normal power. I mean, the workout was hard but I didn't feel sleepy + had lots of power.

Dude my arms and shoulders have tons of extra muscles today. After going to the scale after the workout, weight is up (91.5kg), fat % is up (33.8%). Half kilo more and about 1% percent up.... makes no sense to me as I felt a lot more muscle.

Anyway, I took some pics today and will put them up at some point. Don't want to do it until I finish the 90 days of training.

Now, what did I do different to get more power you may ask?

Today was Plyo day and darn!

I started very well but after 15 minutes or so energy levels went bye-bye. Basically was a struggle until the end after that.

Today I got just the protein drink so, as nothing else was changed, I know now that my body-core power is nothing compare to 10 years ago... but I will keep on trying.

Tonight I discovered something interesting and what might explain why I'm not losing fat.

Here is a bit of GNC protein composition:
- 2 scoops;
- 33g whey protein;
- 370 calories;
- 20g of fat;
- 3g of fibre;
- 310mg of potassium;

Wow I finally made back to the exercises.

Due to the work load, I had to be off for 3 days... it was quite painful coming back today.

While not working out, I noticed that my body is gaining fat like there is no tomorrow. For this reason, I'm changing the approach of p90x... I will go back to building muscle mode.

So, I was using about 6 pounds per hand... was not heavy but once you try to do many, it burns. I have changed that to about 22 pounds per side and am doing 8-10 repetitions.

Let's see what happens.

Greetings,

Today I did Yoga X. This was the 2nd time in the same week. Not sure what is the trade problem with Kenpo X but I like Yoga and wife likes it too.

Only ate the GNC protein shake in the morning and again could do the entire 90 minutes session without drinking water.

For me, I drink water during exercise, I relax and and am done working hard.

I did drink the entire 500 ml protein shake about 30 minutes prior to working out and at least 500 ml more of water after the workout.

Then, drunk my vitamins: Daily (carbsense),garlic, flax oil and b100.

Good leg workout.

Today I took my body cleanser stage I at 4:30AM since I had to wake up then when to sleep again.

Woke up at 8:00AM, it looks like again the pill took some power out of me even with the protein shake.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to do Kenpo X but since wife wants to do Yoga X and I love it, we will do Yoga instead of Kenpo.

I'm still at 91KG, 33.5% fat thus, still not good but I can definitely feel the muscles in the abdomen coming back.

From yesterday, I will be eating much less. The idea is to start reducing weight while at least keep the amount of muscle.

On December 18th 2008 I decided to start the so called P90X program.

Today I did 1.5 hours of Yoga of the program, it is called Yoga X and it is not easy. I'm not that flexible but I could do almost all exercises today which is better than 50% of the first time.

This is the holiday season and it is not easy to eat well, and exercise but I'm doing it.

I hope skipped 1 day on Dec 31st and about 3 days around Xmas.

I actually want to lose weight in the long run but so far I have gained over 3 kilos and mostly muscle.

Congratulations to Barak Obama, the new president of United Stated of America.

This is a historical moment for the USA and for entire planet as this is the first black president in that country.

I would like to thank the Gladstone Cadbury Chocolate Factory for the humongous effort in providing a great Halloween for Toronto's children.

We went there with my daughter (2y10m) and she did her first "trick or treat". She was also quite happy to eat the delicious chocolate provided by Cadbury.

Words here that the factory was expecting a whooping 5000 kids to show up for treats.

One top of all the chocolate action, each child went home with a UNICEF bag and for each bag, Cadbury donated $1 to UNICEF.

I was watching the last debate in US before their election and on my opinion, Obama won again.

McCain did much better than previous debates but was a bit too aggressive on bitching about Obama and many times looked like losing the grip.

Obama was a bit flat but never lost control and many times did explain about his plans while McCain kept on attacking.

Just for the record, Stephen Harper from the Conservative Party of Canada was re elected as Prime Minister.

The number of seats in the Parliament went up for them from previous 124 to 143 out of 308 so, still a bit short for the 155 for majority.

The liberals went from 105 seats to 76. That is the lowest Liberal support since 1867.