This past weekend was my alma maters Homecoming weekend. I have not missed a homecoming since I graduated from college in 2003. I enjoyed the time I spent at Central Michigan and made some great friends that always make it back for such events. Its kind of cool that the fraternity I was in throws a big tailgate party and house party for all of its alumni. Its even cooler knowing that this was also the fraternity that I helped start when I was a sophomore with 11 other guys. It now has over 55 active members. Guess I did something right.
Anyways, before I left on friday to head up north I made sure I got a decent workout in. I knew from previous homecomings as a student and as an alumnus that I would be doing some partying, eating, and sleeping very little. This getting old stuff takes a beating on the body now and you just have to be prepared for it. Otherwise you end up being that first guy passed out on friday night at the bar, barely able to make it through tailgate on saturday, too wasted to go to the game, and then you feel like crap saturday night for the party.
I decided to do a 5 mile run friday morning to get the cardio going and burn as many calories as I could. Then an hour and a half before we were going to leave for up north I did the P90X Chest, Shoulder, and Triceps DVD. This is one of the hardest P90X DVDs for me to do. I can do all of the push ups but I struggle to do a lot of them. It really comes down to how much energy I have before I do this P90X workout. There are times when I cannot do any “clap push ups” and then some times I can do 10. I was able to do 10 this times but still cannot do any “one handed push ups.”
When I was done working out I felt great. Got some great cardio in and the upper body was feeling great. I needed to have the body working and burning calories because all of that changed the second we got up to school. Friday night involved a alumni dinner, then a trip to the old bar we use to go to. We partied until the bar closed and had a great time.
The next morning involved more of the same. It was weird this year that the football game was at 4pm. It only gave everybody 3 more hours t oparty than normal which is never a good thing. The rest of my day went like this. Started partying at tailgate from 1pm to 4pm. This involved a few beverages and eating some of the pig the guys were roasting. From 4pm-7pm I actually went to the football game. We won. From 7pm-9pm involved eating some dinner. From 9pm-3:30am involved partying at the old fraternity house. Lucky for me I have a girlfriend who likes to have a good time and does not care about being a little older than the average crowd that was there. We were the last “alumni couple” still partying. It was quite a day.
My legs were killing the whole next day from being on my feet but I felt great. All of the energy that I started from working out on saturday helped me get through the whole weekend. I have to thank P90X for getting me into great shape or I would be like my other friends that passed out after tailgating. Not the game at 7pm. Tailgate at 4pm.
@ Chris T.
I think you wasted more like 6 minutes of your time writing that post. Do you normally ridicule people on their own websites? I don’t know about you, but 2.5 hours of working out in one day is pretty hard to do. Can you do that? I would recommend you read the rest of the great posts Brad G. has written about his P90X journey to see how hard he’s been working out for the past 19 months and how great and sexy he looks. After that, if you think he looks bad then you are on crack, and crack isn’t good for your muscles.
This is no help at all to me. You are basically saying how wasted you got on your weekend. Do you know that all the muscles you worked that day was for nothing because you drank that night and alcohol is the worst thing for your muscles. So basically it didn’t matter that you ran 5 miles or did P90X before your big weekend blow out. That makes this article useless. The main point of P90x is to follow the diet and try to do 90 days without drinking or eating bad. You have wasted three minutes of my time, next time send in something i can use.
@ Chris T
Live a little!!
Since I knew what my weekend was going to look like I decided to be pro-active. Instead of just doing P90X the day before leaving to rage out with some old friends at Homecoming, I threw in a additional 5 MILE RUN THE SAME DAY!!! Yes, Chest Shoulders, Triceps + a 5 MILE RUN is about 2.5 hours of hardcore working out.
I don’t know what else I can tell you to show how P90X has worked for me. Maybe your more hardcore than I am and don’t drink or give in occasionally. I did that workout so I wouldn’t feel like crap when I got back home from the weekend. So even if the partying I did erased the 2.5 hours of busting my ass, I look at it as par for the course.
Try looking at the glass half full next time instead of half empty. Also, I was on day 245 or something with P90X.
Yes Andrea, we do have fun together.
Awwwwww….now this is stuff I like to see :) We do have fun together don’t we?
“Lucky for me I have a girlfriend who likes to have a good time and does not care about being a little older than the average crowd that was there. We were the last “alumni couple” still partying. It was quite a day.”