the notebook
Power 90: Why I'm Starting Over
It's been almost five weeks since I started the Power 90 program, and there's been some decent success, so why am I starting from scratch?
So i was flipping through the Program Guide for Power 90 last week and I came to the startling but not altogether surprising conclusion that my wife and I have been working through the program for almost a month and a half in a fashion that could politely be described as "half-assed."
For one thing, we've put almost no effort into following Tony's nutritional guidelines. Also we've never been all that clear on what level of effort to put into the exercises. We've been following along with the people on screen pretty well, but how do we know when to move up a resistance band? When is it time to move to the Phase III-IV disk?
Turns out most of these questions are answered in the Program Guide, had we taken the time to read it. (Fancy that)
Here's the kicker. Even though we haven't been doing it 100% properly, I have still seen noticeable, unarguable results: my arms and chest are getting tighter and I'm lighter according to the bathroom scale. Also, people have started to ask me if I've "lost weight." These are all definite steps in the right direction.
I've gotten to this point with decent, but not spectacular effort on the videos and no nutrional attention to speak of, and still generated results. Good results. In fact it got to the point where we were about to take our first set of results pictures and I realized I didn't want to do it because I felt bad about it: imagine if I'd actually stuck with the plan through the last four or five weeks?
So I'm starting over.
Monday was the new official session number 1. Far from thinking of this as a failure of sorts, I tend to look at it from the perspective of an out of shape, sedentary person not naturally predisposed to exercise of any kind. These first few weeks have proven to me that I am perfectly capable of doing everything the program requires. They've also served as a practical demonstration that yes, in fact, this system does apparently work, even when you're not trying that hard.
