P90X Week 2

P90x Week 2

I started off this week better than last week; at least I believe this to be true.   I really do feel stronger, and I don’t know if I actually am or if it’s all in my head.  The soreness is lessening in my body, and I am grateful for that.

Did I mention I have a crush on Tony Horton?  Something about him I find very attractive, and it’s not his muscular body because I’m not really into guys that are that bulky.  Either way, it makes working out a very nice experience.  Ha-ha.

Day 8: Chest & Shoulders- I’m still doing girl pushups, but I am doing more than I have been.  I wasn’t going to write them down, but I started this week… I know I’m a slacker anyway you look at it.  I’m also doing more reps with the pull-ups, although I still use the chair because I can’t even do half a pull up on my own.  I also wanted to say Decline push-ups and Dive Bomber Push-ups are the devil… especially the dive bomber push-ups.  I seriously look pathetic trying to do those.

Abs- Since you are supposed to do abs every time you do the weights, I decided to spice things up by doing my Turbo Jam Ab Jam.  It’s 18 minutes; 9 minutes standing abs & 9 minutes floor abs.  It’s A LOT easier than Ab Ripper & I feel like I get more out of it because Ab Ripper is so hard for me… I struggle with Ab Ripper.  

Day 9: Plyometrics – This has to be the hardest of the workouts.  I seriously could not finish it again… I did 40 minutes and I was so physically exhausted I couldn’t do anymore.   Maybe I’m too much of a wuss for P90x?  I HATE not finishing things in full, but I’m determined to finish the 90 days.  Hopefully I will soon be able to complete all the workouts in full.  I felt so guilty that later on in the night I did 20 minutes on the elliptical…which is not the same, but I felt a little bit better about being such a flake.  Some of the Plyometric exercises I enjoy, but some of them I would rather poke my eyes out than do them.  

Day 10: Arms & Shoulders - This has to be my favorite of the P90x workouts.  I feel like I get so much out of this workout.  It’s amazing.

Abs – Turbo Jam Ab Jam.  Feels good, I really worked my obliques today.

Day 11: Yoga X – Still didn’t complete the full time, I went further however.  It is nearly impossible to find time on the days I work, (I work 12 hour night shifts with an hour & 15 minute drive all together).  I’ve managed to do it, but this workout is so long compared to the other I had to cut it short.  Also, my hands get sweaty & they slip on the mat during downward dog & plank.  It’s really frustrating. I don’t know if I need to get another mat or if all mats do that?

Day 12: Legs & Back – This workout kicked my butt today.  Sneaky lunges are sooooo hard, but I can feel them working almost immediately.  The calf raises are 1 minute and 30 seconds, 15 seconds slow and 10 seconds fast then you alternate the angle of the foot.  If you want to talk about a deeeeep deeeeep burn, then you do those.  I have weenie calves apparently.

Day 13: Kenpo X – I don’t know, but this is my least favorite workout. It’s still the easiest for me, and I contribute my dislike to my awesome kickboxing class I took while I went to ECU.  Julie was so intense & she incorporated P90x stuff into her workout as well.  I miss that class.

Day 14: Rest – It’s a rest day and baby did I take advantage of that.

As for my diet, well I’ve been eating cleaner & healthier foods but I haven’t stuck with my weight watchers.  I am more aware of portions and what types of food I’m eating, but I’ve also been careful to eat more protein, which is crucial while doing this workout.  I’ve come to love Black Bean veggie burgers; they are soooooo good.

I have been eating more chocolate this week. Haha.  It’s my weakness.  Anyway, so I wasn’t that surprised when I saw the scales this week.  I actually thought I’d gain more… but I’m pretending it’s the muscle that is showing up.

Week 1 loss : – 2 lbs.

Week 2 loss : +0.2 lbs

Total = -1.8 lbs

I know a gain of 0.2 lbs isn’t that bad at all considering I ate a butt load of chocolate and cookies last week.

P90X Week 1

I’ll be doing this weekly since I do not have the Internet where I live at the moment.

I’ll go ahead & get my excuses out of the way so we can get on with this post.  It has been extremely hard to stay on track this week.  My dad has been in and out of the hospital, and working nights also makes it very hard to be on track.   There… now I’m done.

I’ll start out by telling you that I did not work out a lot before this.  Besides the occasional visit to the gym, doing Wii Fit, and dancing at home/club, I have not seriously exercised since June 2009.   (Yes, I consider me dancing at home & the club a workout… I sweat and my heart beats faster… so it’s a workout.)

I took the Fit Test that it showed in that poorly written fitness guide and I passed all of the requirements, minus the pull-ups, which I failed miserably.

I will admit that I underestimated P90x and I now know that I am an idiot.

Since I have not worked out since June 2009, and I did not want to push myself too much, and it was recommended to do the full workouts… I only did 30 minutes of the workouts for this first week.  I know, I know… blah blah blah.   This 2^nd week I will be completing the workouts in full.

I also attempted to do Weight Watchers this week, which I completed 5 of the 7 days.  It’s been so hard since I’ve been traveling back & forth to the hospital, & eating on the road.  You are tired of hearing excuses right?  Yeah, I’m full of them… so sue me.

Chest & Back – I was able to do 30 minutes and I bought a pull up bar in which I did pull ups while having a chair help me out. I also do girl push-ups, I can do one pushup on my feet, but I have very little upper body strength when it comes to pushups.

Ab Ripper X – I did the full 16 minutes. My Abs felt like they were being ripped in half.  I certainly felt that the next day.

Plyometrics- Hahahaha.  I’m out of shape.  The next night I had to go up & down to the lab at work for blood.  3 flights of stairs...4 times.  I wanted to cry each time.  I do not joke.  I literally almost had tears coming out of my eyes…it hurt.

Arms & Shoulders – I was able to do 30 minutes, and I had better upper body strength than I thought.  My triceps were pretty sore the next day, but they are flabby and really need to be toned.

Yoga X - Yoga is not for sissies.  It is an hour and a half, and I was able to do 45 minutes.  That downward dog and plank stuff really made me sore.  I feel as if I’m just one big ball of soreness.  It did relax me and I felt more flexible at the end, whether it was all in my head I do not know.  Breathing is key.

Legs & Back – My brother decided to do this one with me.  He was mouthing it earlier and I told him that he needed to just try it.  He took back all the things he said about it pretty quickly after we started.  

Kenpo X – This was the easiest P90x workout for me so far.  I liked it because I miss my kickboxing class I used to go to, and it reminds me of that somewhat. 

The end of Week 1, even though I did not eat as well as I planned and I only worked out half the recommended time, I lost 2 lbs!  I haven’t measured myself again; I will do that at 30 days, 60 days, and then 90 days.  I will also do my pictures in those increments.  If I’m brave enough & there is significant difference, I may even post them.  We will see.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.  Next week I may do a better job at describing the workouts, and hopefully I will have fewer excuses.

stoopid.

Nobody really has to read these. These are just quotes from my friends and I that were absolutely hilarious/you just had to be there kinda quotes. I'm mainly just putting these on here so I can delete them from my facebook, but still have a place for them so I don't forget them.



"I bet most of the sex offenders live in apartments" - Jacinda
"What makes you say that?" - Me
"If I was a sex offender, I would definitely live in an apartment" - Jacinda

"She was trying to call you a dumpling" - Sarah
"yeah she was" - me

"Heck yeah we're going! We'll have ocean" - Sarah Lee

"Do you want to get stuffed crust pizza?" - Me
"Yes, I love cheese and I have diarrhea" - Anonymous haha

"Let's go to Sonic and get a drink." - Me
"I was just about to think that!" - Sarah

"So I was reading about this famous chicken in the 60's..." - Molly

"No joke, I've seen people dead from tetris and it's not pretty." - Sarah
"I want to have quintuplets, then I could have a show like Jon and Kate plus eight." - Sarah
"Yeah, except you'd have to be Jon and Kevin plus seven."- Me
(long pause)
"But your name isn't Jon.." - Me
*5 minutes later*
"And it wouldn't be plus seven, it'd be plus five." - Sarah
"Well, what boys name rhymes with five???"- Me

"I'm just a little bit loney" - Sarah

"I always make good spelling" - Sarah

As Melissa is going into a patient's room to teach them about circumcision care for the baby and give them a bottle.
"Here's the stuff to clean the circumcision, and here's his feed."

"WAIT! YOU guys didn't WARN me there was a blue one!!" - Ashley while trying to play guitar hero on Medium

"I should've dyed Easter Eggs on Christmas" - Ashley while trying to kill her ants w/ Vinegar.

"Make it move" - Sarah

"Where do you wanna?" - Sarah, when texting me about where we should eat... except she forgot the "eat"

Smelling myself - Me
"We smell like Mexican" - Sarah (meaning mexican food)

"Nice of you to wear your area rug".

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, dusting your shoulders off must be worth a million" - Rachel

"Do you need any favors?"- Kim

"Well I don't mean to interrupt, but did you know that global warming is going to kill us all" - Mr. Random

"I thought I had a stummy ache" - Sarah

"No guys, I'm like the best friend EVER!" - Melissa K.

"There is a sexual offender that lives like 2 houses down from me!" - Ashley
"Curtis might know him!"- Melissa
*laughter*
"Because he's police!!" - Melissa

"i'm so awesome it hurts" Sarah.... "awww do you want some tylenol" me

"What are you going to name your baby girl?" - Me and Sarah
"Sarahbrandi Baby Tovar" - Tarah

"I spelled sentence in a text message the other day "scentence" and then I actually sent it" - Kaylee

"How you DOING" - My Mom

"I bet she is a SIDS baby." - Sarah
"Yeah, probably" - Me
"Wait... I meant FAS" - Sarah
"I knew what you meant" - Me

"Yeah, Bedwetter." - Sarah
"His last name is Ledbetter huh?" - Me
"No, it's Bedwetter." - Sarah
"Yeah right." - Me
"Go look in the birth certificate room!" - Sarah

"Wake up in the morning lookin' like P.Diddy" - Kaylee
"Aaaaah I'm a black man!" - Me

"Is that a frog on the back of that guy's truck?"- Sarah
"I don't think so." - Me
"Well whatever it is, I'm not scared of it." -Sarah

as we were driving in the parking lot
"Why'd you stop?" -Kaylee
"Because there was a giant hole!" - Sarah
That's what she said.

"you don't have to ask me to pull up the covers! That's what naps are doing!" - Sarah

"Don't ever take the scenic route, they're forever..you can't turn around, you have to keep going" - Sarah as we pass a 1/4 of a mile scenic route

"Kevin doesn't have a truck." - Sarah

"What was that planet that they found out had water on it?" - April
"The moon?" - Me

Full sized aortic pump

I haven't updated in awhile.
I was going to wait until I started my P90x, but I figure I might as well write something.

I was thinking the other day while I was driving... most people can't count on one hand the amount of true friends they have. I can honestly say, I have more true friends in my life that go beyond both my hands. I don't know if I'm making sense. But anyway...

Isn't that rare?

I am so blessed to be surrounded by people who would do anything for me if I needed them to, and they know that I would be there for them any day.

How does someone get so lucky?

I know this is a mushy post, but I just had to share.

Since we're talking about friends... here's one of my favorite Friends' clips.



I love you all and I mean that from the bottom of my full sized aortic pump.

P90x the beginning before the beginning

I got my P90x in the mail finally.

It felt like Christmas again.

I was reading the manual and I noticed many misspellings.  I mean a lot.  It's like they worked really hard on the video and then thought, "Oh crap we needed to do that manual, lets type one up really fast".  That just bugs me.  I'll try not to hold it against them.  I am sort of a spelling nazi, although I'm not always the perfect speller I hate when it's obviously spelled wrong.  I think I saw "will" spelled "wilt"  and tough spelled "touagg".

This post is more about spelling than P90x I just realized.

Either way I'm starting P90x on February 1st.  I have my dumbbells, yoga mat, resistance bands, and a pull up bar.  Yes, a pull up bar.  I have never in my life been able to execute a full pull up, I don't think I can imagine myself doing one.  Supposedly I'll be able to after 90 days.  We will see.

I'll even make a before and after video just in case it's true.


It also bugs me when people spell or say "supposively" instead of "supposedly".
Writing that above reminded me of that annoyance.

Oh yeah, I finally joined twitter.  emoflosser   Add me.

Here's a funny video that happens... I mean it really does... everyday.

Exercise?

So since I lost weight relatively easy this summer, I'm at a plateau now. I would like to tone up and Faith's hubby, Britton did P90X and lost weight. My friend Ash's husband did P90X and toned up.

If both of those would work for me, that'd be nice. I bought it. It's on the way in the mail.

I'm definitely not posting before pics with a sports bra or anything.

I'm definitely not posting my inches and weight.

I will post progress of inches lost and weight lost... and if I get really tone, I may post after pics with before pics with clothes on.

I've lost quite a bit of weight since November 08'. One of these days I'll post some before pics of my heaviest... one of these days. They are pretty embarassing. Oh what prednisone and the stress of nursing school will do to you.

Here's a clip of what P90x is about.. it's short because I know your attention span is short. :)

a new year

In all honesty... 2009 wasn't that bad. I've had worse years. I have a good feeling about 2010.

Moments in 09:

January - Beginning of my last semester of nursing school

February - Getting closer to 3 of my classmates who I now consider 3 of my best friends.

March - Preceptorship...which is where I work now

April - Finishing up

May- graduation

June thru August - began my first nursing job. had the best summer of my life with my loves. got my heart broken. lived through it.

September - things settling down, trying new things.. didn't work out

October- trying to make it day by day

November- just living

December - life

Really eventful? eh. It was a good year.

See ya' '09, bring it on '10.

.... at work last night I think I wrote '09 on my orders about a billion times, it's gonna take some time. haha