I won’t plug them because the staff is awful. Uneducated salespeople. It’s amazing they can stay open but people like me go there I guess who just want the machine and apparently their business model involves getting a lot of uneducated people to sign up for Personal Training at $180-$500/mo. Incredible. Anyway.

I did 3 circuits of full body machines for about 30mins 1783 – 1908 = 125 calories.

I added circuit weights at the gym today. I needed to burn more calories and thought I’d add more damage as this one is an easy workout… and X3 Yoga is tomorrow.

There is a circuit at the gym although the Sales Guy giving the tour didn’t know it, or what the machines did, but for $10/mo I don’t need him, just the machines.

So I did a circuit that worked all the muscle groups, 10 machines but I only used 9. I think they were (not exactly in this order, if I add this to Monday/Total Synergistics Day, I will come back and outline what they are, I should have taken a picture of the row they were in):

1. Leg Press
2. Leg Extension
3. Leg Curl
4. Chest Press
5. Shoulder Press
6. Lat Pull
7. Bicep Curls
8. Seated Tricep Dips
9. Maybe a Rowing machine
10. Some weird multifunction machine was the last one, #10. It did crunches which was cool but had instructions for other stuff and I skipped it. I should have kept it for crunches now that I think about it.

So the Agility X stats are:

Fitbit calculation for calories burned, start 237- end 504 = 267 calories burned which are less calories than 275 last week or the 292 on week 1. Is it good that I’m burning less calories as I progress? Am I adapting and getting more efficient or am I not working as hard?


I was able to do the jumping jacks and other jumping movements without the tearing pain as I may have mentioned before.

I was also able to do Tap the Line more properly and do some much better reps on Jump Squats I think they were so I saw some good progress again on this workout!

16 Days down. 74 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

Oh No! This is the last session for a while as next week is my first transition week.
I also ate WAAY too much WAAY late last night and gained 2lbs for my records making my weight loss over the first 2 weeks 1.2lbs instead of 3.2lbs or more. Hmph.

I added X3 Ab Ripper today. I know it was easy last time. It was NOT this time. I calculated the stats on it before I added it and I burned 87 calories on X3 Ab Ripper by itself, which was a lot harder this time and more than the 57 calories I recorded the first time I did it.

I also did this workout before breakfast but as I right this I’m not as hungry or weak as I was at the end of Total Syngergistics btw. I do need to copy all of this into a Word Doc for myself. But I don’t want to do the effort to put it in Word and edit it for the web. But I might. I complain about my recordkeeping below.

I also meant to say that sometime last week the DVDs became very familiar, as if I just did them yesterday. Time flies.

As you might guess from this blog I’m not really tied into the Beach Body Website and today I logged in to check the SuperCalendar which I knew they were phasing out, and it’s gone! It used to have the dates lined out with the workout for the day! Now I have to update my records by hand again.

My recordkeeping is kililng me but one more pass on my paper notes to get the right dates on the worksheets and stuff and I’ll be OK.

The new BeachBody website is all sales, I want support for 2-3 things and I can’t get it. So my strong recommendation is that the DVDs are good to get you started but then if you want to crank it up, or if you struggle with some of the DVD instructions as I’ve mentioned, get a Personal Trainer and get set up with evaluation and a tracking a system you can use. If I have to start teaching or training again, I expect I will offer something like this myself. But that is several months away at minimum and I’d rather do some other stuff.

15 Days down. 75 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

My shoulders are sore/weak and painful during the Forearm (side) Plank and far too tight to do the Shoulder Stretch.
Also, my knees prevent me doing the Pigeon so I had to turn that into a static stretch. Again, a trainer with me could tell me if that is a particular issue and how to modify it but at least I know enough to not induce sharp pain in my knees! My knees have carried too much weight for too long I think anyway.

14 Days down. 76 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

I LOVE this workout and I was NOTICEABLY NOT SORE like I was dreading!

I need to put notes in this log about my thoughts on the workout, like what I could/couldn’t do etc but maybe I also don’t need to put that on the Internet.

On my note sheet where I log my stats, I don’t have room for other notes. Maybe I need to reformat it for notes because there are some I need to record. There is space on the bottom of the worksheets for notes, but only 2 workouts in this Block, Total Synergistics and The Challenge.

12 Days down. 78 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

Off topic, it snowed in Austin, TX today!

My numbers did increase on a few reps this time!

I do need a better Pull-up solution. I need to the alternative bands for the door or get a pull-up assist band. My cousin had a pull up bar installed in his basement, anchored to the ceiling so he could do pull-ups before going to the Coast Guard Academy. In my fist Kenpo school there was a pull-up bar installed into a doorway that was rock solid, pull-ups were part of our class routine. If I had a house, I’d install a solid pull-up bar. If I open a facility, there will be a pull-up bar.

11 Days down. 79 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

I’ve decided to only post the stat for calories burned which may help me later and may help anyone else who finds this get some idea on how many calories are burned, but there may be too many variables for my calorie burn to mean anything to someone else.

The calorie count is for the combined X3 Ab Ripper and Yoga!

I did do X3 Ab Ripper first before X3 Yoga and I think I will keep it this way. I have scheduled 2 days of X3 Ab Ripper for the rest of the program and I may tweak it if I can figure out where to add X3 Ab Ripper so it can be 3 days per week.

10 Days down. 80 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

I’ve decided to only post the stat for calories burned which may help me later and may help anyone else who finds this get some idea on how many calories are burned, but there may be too many variables for my calorie burn to mean anything to someone else.

By the way, I did LOVE this workout. It was not hard like I feared. I was not as tight as I thought I’d be. It was invigorating. I need to keep this up. Even a sloppy workout is worth the effort. It is a good 30min baseline, I recall saying that before. A good exercise minimum for a desk jockey.

For posterity… I will also mention here that I lost 1.2lbs according to my scale that is also unreliable because if I weigh myself twice in a row I may gain or lose up to 2lbs. But anyway, it does take measurements… I had hoped to lose 4lbs for the week. Somehow from my weigh-in last Monday to the next morning I gained 2.6lbs and then lost 3.8lbs by today. So maybe I should use the 3.8lb number as my loss for the week? I don’t know.

8 Days down. 82 to go!!!

Day 90 is a REST day.

Day 91 is the Final Fit Test and After Photos.

First Milestone! 1 WEEK DOWN!

AN EVEN 12 WEEKS TO GO!!!