Since my last post, I started the diet portion of the program and the second week of exercises. Physically, I feel really good. I am enjoying the exercises and my wife--she is a PT--is making sure that I am doing them using the correct form so that I do not hurt myself. The one thing I made a mistake on is the resistance band. The one I originally purchased as the highest resistance level and some of the exercises are almost impossible to do. I plan to go out this week an buy another resistance band that has a bit less resistance unless Patrick tells me not to.
The diet portion is going well although I need a bit more time to adjust to the portion sizes. Not because I do not think they are large enough. Rather, I am struggling with making sure that I am eating the right amounts when I am not at home. This past weekend was Easter weekend and we ate away from the house a lot. Making sure that I am close to the required portions for carbs, veggies, fruit, and protein will take time to master. I cannot carry a scale with me everywhere. The good news is that I feel I am doing a good job eating the right foods. I am working on educating myself to use visual knowledge to make sure that I am easy as much as I should, but no more. This will be important given that I also travel a lot for business and I am getting ready to leave for Seattle tomorrow and I do not get back until Thursday.
I am going to try and get my weekly picture up on Flicr before I leave although I need my wife's help on this and I am leaving around mid-day. If I cannot get this done, It will have to wait until Thursday.
It's nice that your wife is a PT I have been wondering if I am doing them right.
ReplyDeleteI went down to see Patrick on saturday to make sure l was doing the exercies right, he pointed out with jump rope l was coming down on my toes and need to use the whole foot, did my lower back doing the chest pull ups.
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Tony
I have the same thing with my resistance band. It is good for the rowing and clapping exercise but it's to hard and short for the others. I will be going to get an extra one as well. They ofetn come in packs of 3 with different strengths.
ReplyDeleteAlso if you measure out the kinds of meats you will eat away from home you can get a prettu good idea. For example the # of medium sized shrimp that make up the # of grams you need or if the size of your palm (not inc. fingers) is the size fish you need to = the # of grams you need. The size of a balled up fist is a good measurement too when you have to eyeball things on the road.
David --- I just finished PCP and just read all your blog entries. I bought a set of 5 resistance bands on Amazon and used them the whole 90 days. Here's the link:
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Yellow is the easiest band and I started out a lot of exercises with it, but you won't believe the difference as you go along...it's nice to have a variety of bands.
If at all possible try to use your scale at all times (people in our group even took it to restaurants).
Sounds like you're doing great!
If you're hardcore you'll put some time into eyeball training. Get a bunch of vegetables and carbs and protein laid out and practice serving 30 grams exactly. Then you can just repeat that serving as many times as you need to get to your required grams. (i.e, 120 grams is 4 servings)
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