P90X Day 31

P90X Day 31

Jen: Thanks to all who left comments on yesterday’s review. The encouragement really means a lot. After yesterday I wasn’t too sure I could do this. But I did survive, much to my own belief. I cannot tell you how great it made me feel to read all of those comments. I am so happy to hear that other couples are doing it together as well. I think working out is truly something better accomplished when you do it with someone else. At least I know I need someone yelling at me to get those extra 2 or 3 out! Needless to say I was sore as hell when I work up this morning. At one point last night I seriously thought I was gonna puke from allthat jumping around (result of drinking too much water during the workout). I was fine though. You wouldn’t believe how quickly I fell asleep after that nice hot shower! I can’t say I did much today. I basically didn’t feel like moving unless necessary. But come 8 o clock it was time to push play again and see what I was made of. Today’s workout wasa much welcomed change after yesterday. Not nearly as much jumping or high intensity moves. Basically it was an hour of alternating curls and pull ups. I love working my upper body! I always have, even back in the sports days of high school. I am still made fun of by my friends to this day for having manly shoulders and such. My upper body bulks up like crazy whenever I work it, what can I say? This being my first night doing this routine I spent a few secs at the begining of each move trying to determine exactly what it was they were doing and which weights I should use. I prefer using free weights during upper body training but the weights I have are kind of in between. Either they we too heavy for what we were doing or the other ones were too small. I have 5 lb and 10 lb weights, so I have decided I will go get some 8lb weights before I do this again. I definately think the weight issue made this workout a little too easy for me. The bands just seem to get in my way and make me feel akward. But to each her own. I was feeling pretty good when we reached the end, but then I rmemebered we still had ab ripper to do. UGH! I have never successfully made it through ab ripper x, even when just fooling around while Tom was doing his workouts. I was feeling the pressure to bring it. I am proud to say I actually finsihed the whole thing. I had a few sec breaks here and there. Tony recommends you do that though if this is your first few times. My stomach feels like it is on fire right now as I sit here typing this though. I really don’t understand how to do the oblique side crunches. I was completely confused on how to position my body for that one. I probably looked all sorts of akward on that one. I will have to have Tom show me or something, because I definately know I am doing it wrong. So I have made it through 2 days. Yay for me! Tomorrow is yoga. I am really looking forward to that. Tom took tomorrow off of work (he is leaving for the annual guy fishing trip tomorrow night). So we are going to get to spend the whole day together while the kids are in school. So we will get to do early morning yoga and then go have sme adult fun time without little children. Didn’t you always hate it when your parents did that to you? Ha ha ha, now I know why!

Tom: Hi my breakfast was a bowl of cereal this morning honey oats, glass of milk, and coffie. Snack A.M was a Recovery drink P.M snack was 1 1/2 cheese snack and low fat 94% butter free popcorn. This time it was not burnt, but not all of it popped :<( … For my lunch I had healthy choice chicken marsala, green beans, and noddles. Work was kind of slow today not much happening. The afternoon shift was pretty slow not to much to work on today for the most part. Today was my last day at work before I leave to go fishing don’t worry about me i’m still going to be doing the workout on my trip. Dinner tonight was chicken, mashed potatoes, and asperagus, and I had 2 glasses of milk. My workout tonight was intense I started using 25 lbs weights for most of my excercises maxing out at 8 -10 each. which is great. (My bands) I went for the blue bands for my pullups which is much more than my previous weeks. I have made the choice to start using more weight and do less reps maxing out at 8 -10!!!! My arms are very sore tonight towards the end of the workout I swtiched of to the orange band for the hammers also i used 10 lbs dumb bells cause my arms couldn’t take anymore than that. I made it almost all the way through but had to change up on my weights so I could complete the night. WHich is fine with me cause I am not going to give up, I will make the change do my best and continue to bring-it. The workout tonight left me soaked in sweet. Its a great workout and same as always its set up very nicely to keep you rolling through each individual excercise. Ab ripper X I found myself taking a few extra breath seconds to catch up with myself due to the fact the Biceps and Back was very intense. For me about 7-8 minutes into the AB Ripper X I feel my mid section has worked this is when I was stopping to take my breaks just to adjust to allow myself to get ready so when I jump back in I can bang out a few extra. Nite!!! see you all out there for the great Salmon run ……Tiny salmon chasing the impossible dream. My friends say I am bad luck when I go everyone stops catching fish LOL HAA HAA thats a bunch of crap…..