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day...um 14 of P90x

2009-01-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

So this week I have been a little bad. I skipped the yoga workout and didn't supplement with xstrech as planned. I'm pretty sure Ill live. A hard thing I'm encountering is working nights and working out. Your day is split between two dates. I'm sure I will iron this out as time goes on. The next thing the week has taught is some workout is better than none. once this week i woke up late and ran to exercise. I couldn't finish 12min of the workout, but I figure 45min is better than none. As Tony Horton says "Do your best and forget the rest" Its something I know i'm doing.
After week two I have had sore muscles and it seems like my imperfections are not gone at all, but they are moving into different places, the curves are less saggy in a way. Probably too much information, but although I feel better about myself I don't really like how my body looks right now. The one thing that does look better is my butt, so that's always good. I'm sure part of the problem is the fact that I want results "yesterday", but didn't do any of the work "yesterday" to see those results.

Day 6

2008-12-28T15:42:00.001-08:00

Well I have discovered a couple things. Firstly me and Yoga currently don't get along. The workout is challenging, but I felt like i was doing slight variations of the same sequence for the first half of the hour and a half workout. Secondly, an hour and a half seems like forever.
I do like the legs and back as well as the Kenpo. Even if I felt like I was going to fall over in Kenpo because my balance sucks.
It will be interesting to see if my balance inproves with the Yoga and if ill learn to like it better.

Day 2 of 90

2008-12-24T02:19:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty confident I won't blog every day of the 90 days, but today I have to make an observation. My core is very weak. I did Core today. So far I have decided that I am no good at anything resembling push ups. Hopefully that will change, but that will depend on me and how I stick with this program. I had more observations as I was fumbling through the workout and getting frustrated at the TV and what Tony was telling me to do. I lived and now tomorrow it will be shoulders arms and ab ripper x. I'm sure it will be great to do ab ripper x after i messed up my order and did core today. Oh well, I'll live

P90X

2008-12-23T00:29:00.000-08:00

I'm not a huge blogger by any means and it is quite possible that anyone could never read the blog but me, however I wanted to try blogging about my fitness adventures. Four years ago I finally found out that exercising could be fun. I was living with my parents in the one room house by their house after starting proceedings for a divorce and nursing school. It was odd really on the one hand my divorce was so painful, but on the other hand it was like a wave of freedom and adventure came my way. Nursing school forced me to have a forward focus and the friends that I made there blessed my life beyond measure. With the stress of life and the stress of school I re-discovered Scuba Diving and took another class then began diving regularly. Needless to say I started having the time of my life...just by living live. In this same time I started bonding with my sister Patty over exercise videos and my valiant efforts to try and run. I'm really not that good. Her husband was in Korea and she was determined that she was going to look better for him when he got home. We started working out to the Firm. Sometimes we finished the videos and sometimes we fudged it and stopped it early and then did push ups and sit ups. Each time we tried to do a little more of the video than we had done before. But I think the thing that helped us the most was the fact that we both told the instructors on the DVD's that they were "cheerleaders on crack" and that "we hated them." We trudged and laughed our way through the DVD's and something wonderful happened. I realized that I was enjoying working out. She moved to Georgia and I married my husband, Steve and moved to Texas. Shortly after that Steve deployed. Needless to say it wasn't as fun to work out as it once was. I would go for runs, I tried rock climbing, Tried swimming and something was missing.....the Fun. I wasn't laughing i was trudging through my workouts and not putting the effort into them as a result. Needless to say I gained about 10 pounds, and lost a lot of muscle.
However, recently something happened. My sister Mary inspired me to try a workout DVD called P90X. I ordered the DVD's online and started working out to them. I ran into a huge health problem and had to stop the program in the third week. In the course of the next few months It was a struggle to try and find out what was wrong with me. Along the way I did try and workout at least twice a week, but it caused al ot of pain to move and In the last month of that I couldn't work out at all. In this time Steve bought me a Wii Fit. It was perfect for stretching and doing light activity to help maintain some form of activity. I HIGHLY recommend it. Long story short 2 months ago the Doctors found out what was the root of my problem. We treated it and then I was PAIN FREE.....I was so Excited, but fearful that it wouldn't stay that way. I started working out more vigorous on the WII. Then Steve purchased me a Jillian Michaels WII Fit fitness game. It was awesome. It times workouts with various timed activities in each workout. You use the Wii Fit board and 2 wii controllers. It is super fun. I worked my way up to doing a 60 minute workout that way. I know it sounds cheesy but that wii fit workout has me sweating buckets.
That brings me up to the present Day. I started P90X again. I chose to do the Lean Program. My first workout was Cardio X (It was supposed to be Core, but I misread my calendar) So im doing Core tomorrow. Im pretty sure it won't screw up my whole 90 days by doing that :) Im so excited that I am Pain Free and Im excited to do this program. It would be awesome to look like I did when I was working out with Patty, I was in the best shape of my life. It would also nice to have more healthy look on life. Not to mention to be my husbands Trophy Wife.

Second Half of wa trip

2008-09-16T18:05:00.000-07:00

Trip to Washington

2008-09-16T17:47:00.000-07:00

new blog

2008-09-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

Today i am starting in the new world of blogging. I'm scared of blogging because it seems like it's alot of work. I guess we will find out.