Healthy Coder

So I finished my first day of P90X doubles today.  It feels good, damn good actually.  Started off the day bright and early at 7:30 with another monster omelet, some cottage cheese, and a cappuccino.

I did a 5 mile run around 9:30 in the morning, it was a nice cool morning – great day for a run.  Let me assure you, my running endurance was not affected by skipping the runs for a month.  In fact, I was able to run faster and felt significantly stronger.  I noticed my heart rate was 10 BPM higher than I used to run at before I started P90X – but I didn’t seem to get tired like I would before.  The hill of doom was easily defeated – without going much over 180 BPM.

I took advantage of a lot of the great new warm ups, stretches, and yoga moves phase 1 of the program showed me this morning, both before and after my run.  Once cool down was done I came in and whipped up a recovery drink.  I had not been using this before now because I just didn’t think I needed to take in the extra sugar.  With another hour of resistance training coming up – it seemed like a good plan today to help rebuild glycogen.  Shower and back to work with a protein bar for a snack.  Total time for this was about 1 hour 15 minutes for warm up, run, cool down and shower.  The 5 miles took about 50 minutes to complete.

Had a hefty lunch of tuna salad + tortilla.  It sure is nice to be eating a bit more of the carbohydrate.  I had really been missing the bread based products the past month =).  After a couple more hours of work I did the “Chest, Shoulders and Triceps” + Ab ripper X.  Ab ripper is still effn’ evil – though today I made it through 40 “Mason twists” without stopping which was a first for me.  Another recovery drink, some more cottage cheese, and some almonds.  The only thing I noticed is my muscles felt a little weird.  A little twitchy.

Worked late into the evening tonight – and I was a coding machine!  Not sure if its a coincidence that my efficiency was up like this on the first day of doubles.  I guess we’ll see what happens in the next few weeks.

So this schedule is sustainable IF I’m able to get up before 8am every day.  Not sure how achievable that will be when I work until 10+ pm but I’ll give it a shot and see what happens.  Looking forward cycling on Wednesday…