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P90X Post-Mortem

Wendy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:37:19 +0000

It’s February 2012 and since my last post which chronicled my finishing of Round 1 in August 2011 I’ve completed a second round of P90X in the classic variation, ending in late November 2011, and then I did about 3 weeks of Phase 1 of classic P90X in December 2011.

P90X – Before and after photos

Wendy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:19:17 +0000

All right…here are the before and after pictures…not posting them all but just a couple… Go ahead, laugh at my before pictures. You can tell I was pretty skeptical of the whole “taking the before” thing to do. Could I roll my eyes up any further even in side profile? Answer: Yes! Lol. But honestly, [...]

P90X – Motivation

Wendy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:22:40 +0000

photo credit: qmnonic (Matt MacGillivary) Motivation: Why start? When you’ve started, and how to keep going It probably seems a little backwards to talk about motivation after blogging about P90X FAQs and nutrition. If you ask me, it doesn’t make sense to get people all fired up about the program if they’re not properly informed [...]

P90X – Nutrition

Wendy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:43:41 +0000

So, you've read the general Q&A post, you're intrigued about the P90X program and what it might be able to offer. And now you're curious about the nutrition component that goes with it....

P90X – FAQs

Wendy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:34:31 +0000

So as some of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook you may have seen me updating my status just about every day the past 2 months using some Twitter hashtags called #p90x and #lean. I've also been getting a lot of questions from some of you about P90X and so I decided I'd write a post about it as well as some other posts over the next few days:

Packing Tips from Professional Travelers

Wendy — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Photo by Lauren Bailey, available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) license. …via nytimes.com via unclutterer.com, an extremely useful article on how to pack from pilots and flight attendants, who should know a thing or two about travelling. The slideshow, also from the same site, also shows you how to do the packing. [...]

The Run Down

Wendy — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:10:56 +0000

I started running back in mid-November of last year. It wasn't my idea initially and I had my reservations about starting up because we were heading into cold, wet, wintry season. We started the Learn to Run clinic through the local Running Room store. The weather, true to prediction, was crappy. We ran in the wind, rain and in some cases the snow, 3, sometimes 4 times a week. We finished the Learn to Run clinic, and then made the jump to the 10K clinic. And finally, almost 4 months to the day we started to run, we finished running our first 10K distance...followed by completing the Sun Run 10K run with 51,000 other people last Sunday.

Travel Tips

Wendy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:24:23 +0000

This year I travelled a lot back east. I was on the road for several days a month every month from March to October. So I think I can safely say I can share a few travel tips to help being on the road a little easier and more efficient. :) Here's what I found really helped me in my travels:

Favorite iPhone apps of the moment, part 2 of 2

Wendy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:03:54 +0000

And without further adieu, the here's the last half of my favorite iPhone apps of the moment. If you missed my first post, you can find it here.

Favorite iPhone apps of the moment, part 1 of 2

Wendy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:28:29 +0000

In the year and a bit that I've had my iPhone it's become pretty indispensible for me. I don't need to use an alarm clock anymore, Clock does it for me. I don't need to check my e-mail on a computer anymore, Mail does it for me. Maps acts as a great backup GPS device if my Magellan GPS unit doesn't cut it (or if I forgot it at home) :) Alongside the standard iPhone apps I've been trying out a bunch of apps from the Apps Store. I'm a "if I don't get it in 5 or 10 minutes I'm getting rid of it" type of app user. So if something passes muster, and has stayed on the iPhone for a couple of months, it gets my stamp of approval.