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Despite the terrible weather I forced myself to go for a short run to get ready for the endomondo challenge this April.

Bearing in mind I was running with a dog, and the roads were mostly sludge I was pretty happy with my 2.63 mile run. Now, I know that you are thinking 'why didn't I do 3miles?' And it is partly because was running with a dog on the roads so was regularly stopping for passing cars, but, if I am to be honest, it was because I was running up hill and made a huge mistake ...

Right, so I know that I did say I was going to start at the start of the year, but for various reasons I was unable to do so, so I have decided that I will start now (but for real in April).

To try and get other people motivated into running as well The Health Cloud is sponsoring a challenge on Endomondo. For those of you who don't know what that is - Endomondo is a sports tracking app, which allows sporty people to track distance/ calories burned etc and also to see how their friends ...

So I have come to the end of my P90X routine and thought I would share my thoughts about it in-case anyone want to do it too.

Pros:

• Gets you fit
• Low cost (saves a gym membership)
• Saves time in the day
• Tones you out very nicely (increased definition)
• Intense
• Some good recipes!
• Can do at home

If you were to ask me if P90X worked I would say it does, but you have to work with it. The diet is pretty good and simple to follow if you are organised, ...

It was chest and back day yesterday, which I have been using as my bench-mark day for measuring improvement.

Standard Push-ups: 50/36 (86)

Wide grip pull-ups: 12/10 (22)

Military push-us: 26/22 (48)

chin-ups: 10/8 (18)

Wide-fly push-ups: 25/31 (56)

Overhand pull-ups: 9.5/9 (18.5)

Decline push-ups: 24/25 (49)

Heavy Pants (15kg): 12/12 (24)

Diamond push-ups: 17/15 ...

Nearly over now, seem some great improvements, very lean and defined, not much gained but definite improvements. The last 2 weekends have had a rocky diet as I have been away, but other than that I have stuck to it.

Starting to think what the plan is after, but this workout can easily be done for over 3 months. so I may do it for an extra month after xmas, there is still some yoga move that I struggle with, and it took me a few weeks to get the weights right for some of the moves ...