I’m sorry ChaLean Extreme
I am a failure at life!!! I still have not recieved the new replacement blub for my television. I do not know when the bulb is going to get here but I guess we will be on hold until we get it. I will keep on updating everyone until it gets here, so I can let you know when I start the Chalean Extreme program again. I really did not do any workouts during the weekend, I was trying to let my body recover from all the other workouts I did during the week. It actually was a pretty busy week with workouts. I did about eleven miles of hiking, I went to the gym a few times, played racquetball and then even had softball practice yesterday but that does not really count. I went and checked out my progress on my diet yesterday and I actually gaine d a couple pounds, I am not sure if that is because I packed on some muscle through my workouts and hiking though. Technically I am supposed to build muscle with this diet, but until I get the Abs Diet book I will not really know if I am doing it right. I did chose Saturday as my splurge day. I went to an Italian restaurant and had filet mignon with garlic mashed potatoes, there was also free bread. It was sooooo good, the filet mignon just melted when you put it in your mouth. I love steak!!! On Friday I went on a hike, and I usaully do not struggle to much with hikes, but I felt very sluggish. I really had to push myself, because it felt like I was going to pass out. I do not know what the deal was, but it was just an off day for me, I still made it to the top in my normal time, but I was more tired than I have ever been.
ChaLean Extreme: In Waiting
So I finally got a hold of the television repair people and faxed in all the proper paper work for them to come out or send me a new bulb for my LCD rear projection television. This whole process has been annoying, but it has not been the end of the world. I still get a lot of workouts in, although it is not ChaLean Extreme. My whole purpose to doing ChaLean Extreme is so I can write reviews and tell people about my progress or lack there of. Soon I will get the problem resolved and everything will be back to normal, but until then, I am gonna keep on doing workouts at the gym and hikes. Besides, I have to do some type of workout or else I will go crazy!! If I go to long without working out then I lose my edge, my motivation, and it is harder for me to start back up. So remaining active is not an option for me.
As far as the diet is going, this is my fifth day on the Men’s health Abs diet. I think I am doing it right, that is why I ordered the book, to make sure that I am doing this diet correctly. But I feel great, my body feels healthy, and I feel energized. I am excited to see some of the results I get in the first week. It is the weekend so I will not be posting until Monday, I am going on a four mile hike this afternoon with a friend, and tomorrow I am probably just going to take it easy. I have a friends birthday and we are going to this extremely nice italian restaurant. In my diet I do allow myself to splurge a little one day a week. I hope that is okay with the Abs Diet book.
ChaLean Extreme Paused
So today is day three of not being able to do the Chalean Extreme Workout, it is kind of getting annoying now. The people I have my warranty with are giving me a difficult time for getting the new bulb. Hopefully I can get it settled and get the bulb soon. If I do not get it by the end of the week, we will have to use an alternative way of working out. In the mean time I have been staying active. I went to the gym last night and worked out my back and biceps for about and hour and then played racquetball. It was a great workout, Jeff and I did about four workouts on the back, which included pull ups and lat pulls. We also did a few bicep workouts that in curls, hammer curls and cables, then after all that we did as many pull ups as we could. We then went and worked out our abs, and played a couple games of racquetball.
Normally I would not be talking so much about my gym workouts, but since I cannot write bout my Chalean extreme experience right now I am forced to just talk about all the other workouts I do. Including hiking, running, weight lifting and sports. I have been doing a great job with my diet, I have to strayed from it at all, on Monday I will check my weight to see if I am losing any thing. I also bought the Abs Diet book, so that will be able to help me in my meals, and learning more about how to eat healthy. So far I have actually enjoyed this diet, usually I try low carb diets and I always craved bad food. But with the Abs diet I feel like I am actually eating more healthy and I am not craving things like ice cream or pizza. So I am pleased.
ChaLean Extreme: Still on Hold :(
So today is the second day of not being able to do the Chalean extreme workout, my television is still out of commission, and I have no idea when it is going to be fixed. Besides the hold the workouts have been going pretty well, but if I were to compare it with the P90x routine, I would say that P90x was more difficult, even though Chalean extreme is pretty tough itself. They are both great workouts and I have enjoyed each one. So since yesterday I was not able to do the Chalean extreme routine, I went on a hike with my friends. It was pretty spare of the moment and it was around 10:00 pm when we decided to go. It was actually extremely fun, I have never gone hiking in the dark before, I have hiked at night coming down a mountain because I ran out of day light, but I have never started up a mountain at night. It was quite the experience, it was muddy and steep. Mt. Peak is probably one of the more steeper mountains I have had to climb, but although it is steep it is only about 1.2 miles, so it is pretty short. I would like to go on another hike today, but it is raining like crazy, so I might have to go to the gym. Speaking of the gym, I am still pretty sore from my workout on Monday, we really did push ourselves pretty hard.
I kind of feel like I am just rambling on, but I still need to talk about how my diet is going. So far I have been doing really well, I had a chance to eat a snickers bar yesterday but did not do it. I also have a whole bunch of friends keeping me accountable, mostly because if the abs diet works for me than they want to try it. It definitely has not been easy, but yesterday I cooked this chicken that was sooooo good. It was a halved chicken breast, covered in olive oil, parsley, basil, red pepper flakes, garlic and kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. It was so delicious!! I really enjoy cooking, especially when you cook for people and they enjoy the food, it gives a great sense of accomplishment. Hopefully I can start giving you more reviews on the ChaLean extreme workout in the next few days, in the mean time I will just keep on posting on my other workouts and how my diet is going.
Oh yeah, if you are wondering what is up with the Cougar picutre, it is because last night during the hike we were comstantley looking over our shoulders just incase a Cougar was stalking us.
ChaLean Extreme: Bump in the Road!!
Well I woke up today to do the ChaLean extreme workout, and my television stopped working. So right now the workout is put on hold, until I can get it fixed. I called the company I bought my television from because I have a 3 year bulb replacement warranty, so hopefully they give me a call back so I can get the new bulb for my television. This is totally lame, but I am glad this never happened during my P90x workout and I am glad it happened earlier than later in the Chalean extreme routine. So I guess I will just have to continue to go to the gym to get my workouts in. Yesterday evening I went to the gym to workout with Jeff, and we focused on chest, triceps, and abs. We worked out for about an hour and a half, and after the workout I could barely even shift or steer my car, because my arms were so tired. I am pretty sore right now.
This is my second day on my new diet, so far I have been doing pretty good with it. I went and bought some groceries last night to help me. I bought chicken, tuna, whole wheat bread, vegetables, fruit, oatmeal and nuts. So this morning I had oatmeal with raspberries, it did not taste good at all, but it was filling. For lunch I will probably eat some chicken. which I am going to cook right now. Peace!!
ChaLean Extreme: Day 8 – Getting Extreme!!
Well we had to rest days over the weekend from our ChaLean extreme workout, so our bodies are all healed up and ready to go. Over the weekend I did not workout , I did not even go to LA Fitness to do any running, and I ate terrible. It was my sister’s birthday so I went out a few times for lunch and dinner and had cake and ice cream. I am the type of person that if I screw up in a day with my eating then I eat bad the rest of the day. But today marks the day that I start eating healthier again, so I can maximize my results from this workout. I decided not to follow the ChaLean Extreme nutrition guide that they provided for me, instead I will be doing The Abs Diet from Men’s Health. This diet includes 12 power foods. 1. Almonds and other nuts 2. Beans and other Legumes 3. Spinach, greens 4. Dairy, fat-free milk, yogurt and cheese 5. Instant oatmeal – unflavored and unsweetened 6. Eggs 7. Turkey and other lean meats – lean beef, chicken and fish 8. Peanut Butter, all natural and sugar free 9. olive oil 10. Whole grain breads 11. Extra protein powder 12. Raspberries and other berries. So wish me luck, this is probably going to be the hardest diet I have ever had to stick with. I get one day a week to splurge, I am actually more nervous about this than I am about the workout.
Today we did the Chalean Extreme Burn Circuit 1 disc again for the second time. If you remember in my first post about this workout I mentioned that I felt like the workout was to easy because I did not have heavy enough weights. Well, this time I had heavier weights and the workout went a lot better, but I do feel like this is the easier workout of the three Burn Circuits. What I do love about this ChaLean Extreme Workout, is that they have some great Ab workouts with dumbbells. You really get to focus on your obliques and if you do the exercise correctly than you can really feel your obliques getting a good workout. I really do like how you usually work out multiple body parts at a time. So if you are doing deltoid workouts then at the same time you are in a lounge working out your legs, or if you are doing a bench press, they have you working out your lower abs at the same time. That was one thing the P90x workout was great with too, was working out more than one section at a time.
Tonight I am going to LA Fitness to workout with Jeff, we are going to do a Chest workout and then run for a couple miles. But I will writing more about that tomorrow. And remember to check out Ben’s Chalean Extreme workout blog.
ChaLean Extreme: Day 5 – Burn and Recharge
So today is the last workout of the week with ChaLean extreme, and it has been a great workout so far. Ben and I will do the same routine next week and for the rest of the month, before we switch it up into the push phase. Today, we did the ChaLean Extreme Burn it off and recharge disc, where you are trying to get your heart rate up as much as possible. Ben and I do not have to much room to maneuver so it was kind of difficult at first to get really into this workout, but by the end we were sweating and Ben felt light headed because he worked out so hard. The workout involved a lot of movement dips, lunges, jumps and football drills. Yes, I said football drills! I thought that was pretty cool, I always love it when workouts incorporate sporting drills in to the exercises. My P90x Workout did that with the plyometrics disc. It adds an element of fun to the whole thing, although it is pretty challenging.
After the ChaLean Extreme Burn it off disc, I got to do the Recharge exercise. The first workout today was a little under 30 minutes long and the recharge disc was about 20 minutes long, so all together you will workout for about 50 minutes. But the recharge disc was nice, it was all stretching, and boy did my muscles need it, in fact my muscles need the two rest days coming up too. There were a lot of Yoga poses in this workout, it had upward dog, downward dog, warrior poses and some other yoga exercises. I kind of struggled with Yoga routine in P90x, but the ChaLean extreme workout is not meant to be a full on Yoga workout, so it was not as difficult, it did feel great though. I am glad they have put stretching into these workouts, because they really do help your flexibility and your muscles to develop.
I have a big day tomorrow, it is my sister’s birthday and we are going to Mizu. It is a Japanese restaurant where the chef is at your table and he cooks and does all sorts of cool things right in front of you. It’s pretty sweet, I think I am going to get the Steak and Lobster.
ChaLean Extreme: Day 4 – Burn 3
So it is Thursday today, so that means it is the fourth day of my ChaLean Extreme Workout. Today was not so good, not because of the workout, but we had a few unexpected guests in the middle of the workout, so we had to pause a few times. I am sure if we were able to go through the whole thing without stopping then it would have felt like more of a challenge. The ChaLean Extreme Burn Circuit 3 disc was the shortest workout so far. It was just a little bit above 30 minutes, which is fine because after yesterday’s workout we needed a shorter workout. I do not really mind the workout pushing me to much today, because that means I will feel more up to going to the gym to run a few miles. I do not think I am going to lift at the gym, because I need to give my muscles some time to recover from all the workouts I did with ChaLean and the gym. There were a lot of squats and shoulder workouts in the Burn circuit 3 workout, your shoulders will get a great workout in this session.
So far both Ben and I have agreed that the workouts have been really great, even our buddy Derek has worked out with us the last couple days. Derek used the resistance bands that I bought for my P90x workout routine. I think he had a hard time using them, not because of difficulty but because he was just not used to them. They can be kind of a pain if you do not use them correctly. I think Dumbbells are difinitely the way to go with the ChaLean extreme workout, and if you can get the same kind Chalene Johnson is using than that is even better.
If there is one thing I can start doing better, is eating more healthy. Last night a bunch of my friends got together, and I sort of pigged out on doughnut holes. I have not even opened the nutrition guide yet, maybe I should take a look at it and try to follow some type of plan.
Honduras Pictures are up!
So I finally have some pictures up on my honduras page, so if you have time check them out, I will eventually get more too.
ChaLean Extreme: Day 3 – Burn and Abs
First off, I need to tell you how the hike went! This is a continuation from my last post so hopefully you are reading everything I write about, if you are not I am going to hunt you down and make you read it…not really. It was a great hike though, although I was completely unprepared for the weather conditions. I do not like hiking in long warm ups, I like wearing shorts and I could not find my hiking boots so I just wore some old running shoes. Both of those decisions were a mistake. It was muddy and then when we got to the top there was about a foot of snow. I was dressed for a summer hike!! So…I do not know what I was thinking, but it will make a good story to tell, so I am happy. Hiking is a great workout and it is just great to get outside and experience nature and fresh air. The Gym can feel so unpleasant sometimes, so it was a nice change of scenery.
Okay, back to Chalean Extreme. Today Ben and I did the third day of the the ChaLean extreme workout. It is called Burn Intervals and Ab Burner. Combined, the workouts equal up to around 55 minutes, definitely the longest workout so far out of the three we have done. Our friend Derek even came and joined us. Three of us were packed in a small living room trying not to get in each others way. Besides that, I sweated like crazy in this workout, you just keep on going and going, there are no breaks. So for 45 minutes you are doing dumbbell routines, crazy plyometric routines and lounges through the whole thing. It was a wonderful and fun workout. Apparently you are not supposed to use heavy weights during this workout, for example, the guy in the back of the DVD was using 7 lbs. I was not so lucky, I had to use 15 lbs. the whole time, while Ben used the 10 lbs. and Derek got the 5 lbs, and my body is still sore from my Gym workout two days before. It was fun though, we joked around the whole time and pushed each other to get a better workout. After we got done with the burn Intervals, it was time to do the Ab Burner. Ten and a half minutes of crunches and side crunches and other weird crunches. It was great!! Actually, if I am being honest, abs are my least favorite thing to workout. But the Ab burner workout was very good. I was able to do this one better than the P90x ab workout, because it did not put so much pressure on my tail bone.
Also, Remember to check out Ben’s Chalean Extreme review.
