When it comes to leg workouts I absolutely despise lunges. So you can imagine my dismay when I saw the exercise guide for Day 5. Lunge after lunge after stinking lunge, and a little bit of pull ups on the side. I wasn't going to workout until mid-afternoon but as I was drinking my coffee while watching TV, I came across the P90X infomercial again and it made me want to workout. This workout is HARD on your quads, especially during the wall squats which nearly killed me...the two position wall squat is quite the challenge. Today's workout consisted of doing two leg exercises followed by a pull up for your back. Now you know that I suck at pull ups after reading my post about the fit test I took, so I have to use the chair when I do these. Problem is that you use your leg to assist the pull up, so with today's workout being leg-heavy I was feeling the pain during the later sets. Dead lift squats were painful today as well as the 80/20 Cyber Speed squats when they started going airborne. Just a tough workout through and through, and I was sweating through my shirt something fierce!
Ab Ripper...what can you really say about it? That sucker is a challenge every time. Steph joined me today and both of us grunted, yelled, and swore at the TV together trying to achieve the rep counts. Hardest exercises for me are still the Roll-up/V-Up combo and the damn Wide Leg Sit-up. I'm getting better at the Mason Twist...45 reps here I come!
Today's Meals
Breakfast: 2 Whole Wheat Waffles with light syrup. Glass of Juicy Juice. Cup of black coffee.
Snack: Recovery Drink. Celery with peanut butter.
Lunch: 2 Tuna Samiches with pickle stacker's on wheat bread. Apple on side.
Snack: Protein Shake (Skim Milk, Berries, Whey, Ice). Cup of Pistachios.
Dinner: 5 Potato and Cheese Pierogi with reduced fat sour cream. Green beans on the side.
I was very hungry today and nothing I ate really satiated me. Maybe it's because I worked out so early or maybe I just didn't eat enough protein. It's about 7 pm right now and I am going to have a Protein Shake as a snack. I already ate dinner but that was almost 2 hours ago. I ran a bunch of errands today and it screwed up my schedule so I never ate my 2nd snack. Anyways, tomorrow is my final day of week 1! Kenpo X awaits and I am looking forward to this new challenge. Thursday is my rest day and I am going to do X Stretch in preparation for Week 2. I felt that week 1 was just me getting acclimated to the program and just surviving. I am going to really try to BRING IT for week 2 as my muscles stop aching and I know the workouts better. I am almost done with the hardest part of the entire 90 days, the rest will be about concentrating on the task at hand and BRINGING IT every single day! I can't wait.
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