So my 90 days of P90X and 12 weeks of the Body Challenge ended last week, P90X on Wednesday and Foothills on Saturday. I didn’t win, but I have some good news on my progress to share. I lost 10% of my body fat during the 3 month period of eating healthy (between 1400-1600 calories) and working out daily. I started at 40.9% body fat and ended with 30.19%. It was actually amusing watching Nicole trying to grab the fat on my thigh for the skin caliper fat test. Look out! There’s muscle there. lol. Here are the top three finishers:
1st Place – Dave (27.2% change)
2nd Place – Stacey (23.6% change)
3rd Place – Alisa (18% change)
We were all winners. 18% change in 90 days is pretty good. So good, I think I’ll do it again. “Thank you, Sir! May I have another.”
P90X round 2 begins today! X
On Wednesday I did a yearly health screening at school where they take your vitals and draw a little blood to analyze your blood sugar and cholesterol levels. I’ve never had a problem with either, but it was still fun to see those numbers go down. My blood pressure on Wednesday was 100/64 and was even lower on Saturday when they took it at Revolution. Optimal is less than 120/80. My total blood cholesterol level was 118, with the desirable level being less than 200! Sweet! My HDL cholesterol level was 59. 40-59 is the normal range. Optimal is 60. My LDL cholesterol was 39, with less than 100 being optimal. So diabetes is NOT in my future. That’s a good thing.
I didn’t lose a lot of weight during the challenges, but I did lose inches. Weight wise I lost 6.5 lbs according to my scale, but I lost about 4.5 inches in my hips and about 2.25 on my waist. My thunder thighs just traded in the flab for muscles. I lost 1.75 inches in my thighs. My legs have always been like that. Rub, rub, a chub, chub!
Here’s the run down on my numbers:
- Upper Arm: 12.5 —> 12.0

- Chest: 34.5 ———-> 34.25
- Waist: 33.5 ———-> 31.25
- Hips: 40.5 ———–> 35
- Thigh: 25 ————> 23.25
- Calf: 12.65 ———–> 12.5
I have before and after photos from the challenge and P90X. The challenge photos so more of a change, but here is my own P90X before and after photo. For some reason I just don’t look as fat as I was on day 1 in this picture. But I do in the Revolution photo.
Now for my P90X Pre and Post test numbers:
- Pull-ups: neither one of us could do a pull-up at the start — I did 3 after!
- Vertical Leap: We marked up a photo from our jumps on the side of the house. I didn’t have a measuring tape that long. See photo. Minimum is 3 inches. Before 8.5 inches — After was about 9 inches.
- Push-ups: I did 10 in the beginning – 23 in the end.
- Toe Touch: I was 4 inches away from touching my toes in the beginning. Now I still can’t touch my toes, but I did improve my Sit & Reach in the Revolution challenge from 11 to 15.
- Wall Squat: I sat on the dang wall for 1:30 in the beginning. End was 3:00.
- Bicep Curls: I did 22 curls with the 10lbs weights. I did 35 in the end.
- In & Outs: I hate ab work. I could only muster up 11 in the beginning. I did 40 on a regular basis through out the program.
- Heart Rate Maximizer: We had to do jumping jacks for 2 minutes with the last 30 secs as hard/fast as we could to get our heart rates up. I did the full 2 minutes. Heart rate after 2 minutes and then every minute for 4 minutes: Before –>156-126-102-96-96 After –> Can’t get my crappy heart rate monitor to work, so no after on this one. I did increase my V02 Max in the challenge from 41.5 to 43.4.
So that’s the tail of the tape. I’m off to do Day 1 of P90X (Round 2) – Chest & Back.
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