Day 54: The X Trials

The most important part of today's workout wasn't the push ups, the lunges, or the squats. It wasn't even the attitude, effort or determination. The most important part of today's workout was that 'X' made on day 54 of my 90 day workout calendar.

At this point on my P90X adventure, I've mastered the discipline part and am showing up every day. I give 100% every workout and never slack. I'm eating healthy and watching my calories. I'm not drinking or smoking. Basically, I'm doing everything I am supposed to be doing.

When I'm finished with the 90 days, I won't be able to point to individual workouts or exercises that transformed me. I won't be able to say it was this food or that supplement or how often I ate or when I ate or what I ate. In other words, what's going to happen doesn't depend on the details. People come up to me all the time and want to fine tune my efforts with some magical little tip that does nothing more than piss me off. "Jeff, you should be taking Protein Power because it has long chain amino acids that cause reactive binding to your neurosensors and stimulate hypertrophy." Blah, blah, blah.

What's going to cause the change I looking for? At the end of 90 days, I am going to look at that piece of paper in the photo and see 90 X's. All I really did was show up 90 days in a row, push the play button on my DVD player and let the P90X's creator, Tony Horton, kick my buck for 60-90 minutes. When the workout's over, I walk over and scratch another "X" on my workout calendar. Every day is a trial. Every day is a test.

P.S. My pull up bar finally arrived. I hope to have it installed soon. Currently, I am able to do one pull up. Hopefully, after a few months, I'll be able to do two pull ups.