Hey!  Starting off week two!  Chest and Back was the workout for today.  I upped my band weight for the chin-up exercises to the green band.  I think that’s 40 lbs.  I did about 20 reps for all of the chin-up moves, and for the push-ups, I actually did a few more this time around.  Last week I was doing 5, sometimes 8.  This week, I did 10 for almost all of the push-up exercises, so I am getting better!  They are still very hard for me, but I working on it!  You know what exercise I really don’t like?  That back fly one.  It’s actually really hard for me to get the right positioning to do this one.  I also think I using too much weight.  I might have to go down to 10 lbs next week.  I don’t know, this one is just uncomfortable for me (back flys).

Ab ripper x is difficult as usual!  I did as much as I can (most of the reps actually), taking a pause here and there.  This is just a workout that you have to try to do better each time.

For breakfast I made a nice smoothie.  Yogurt, strawberries, vanilla whey, recovery formula (i drank it right after my workout), water and ice.  I thought the two different powders were going to make it taste gross, but it was actually pretty good! For lunch, I had tomato soup and I will be having a snack soon which will be cottage cheese and fruit.  I’ll probably have a P90X bar a little later if I’m hungry again.  Im making pepper steak for  dinner tonight.  As I did before, I will be eating carefully measured portions of brown rice and beans along with the pepper steak.  If I remember, I’ll take some more pictures if anyone out there needs meal ideas for the portion approach.