P90X - into week 3

I've been going along pretty good with P90X. With 2 weeks in the bag I can say there have been improvements. For example, total push ups of varying types for this workout in week 1 totaled 100. Tonight I did 139. Total pull ups in week 1 was 43, tonight I managed 68. Some of those, a lot of those, were assisted pull ups where I used 1 leg on a bucket to give a just little help in order to get enough reps to make it worthwhile. And weight bearing exercises where I started with 15 pound dumbbells I am now using 25's, and even 30's in some cases.

My abs are really taking a beating. I am completing much more of the ab ripper workout, but I'm still not able to keep up with it. I can definitely tell my core is getting stronger every time I come back and try to make it the full 15 minutes of the ab workout. Like tonight I made it through 5 moves before I had to curse at the DVD and then curl up in a ball to dissipate the burn. I rest for 5 reps or so and then jump back in. Maybe by week 12 I'll be able to make it straight through.

The 50/30/20 (protein/carb/fat) diet has been tough. It's not easy to eat that much protein w/o getting carbs along with it. You have to be careful. And finding 7 servings of vegetables a day is equally as hard. I've been using protein shakes to help supplement the protein requirements and V8 juice to help out with the veggies. The rest is from normal foods that you chew and swallow. I definitely have not gone hungry, that's for sure.

By the way I haven't been running because I don't have time, P90 takes 1 to 1.5 hours at the end of every day and that is all I got. So my 60K effort this Saturday will need to be strategized and executed perfectly in order to fake that distance.