Day 2 On The New Plan

So far so good.  Did Cardio today. 

Because I needed the time to work-out and take a shower before Noah would get up from his morning nap, I attempted to start my work-out while he was still awake.

I will never do that again.

As I was doing the Cardio warm-up that consists of Yoga, he kept crawling around me.  Picture me doing Downward Dog with an 11-month-old crawling underneath me.  Yep.  Amusing.

As a result, Noah has now started doing this...

Apparently Yoga looks like one big game to my children.  Oh, it is so not.

My New Plan

Because my life is complete with sick children and soccer practices, I have decided to take on my second attempt at P90X in a new way.  Instead of starting with each Monday on Core and going from there, I am going to complete each exercise in order, no matter how many days between.

My reasoning is that I do really well on Mondays and Tuesdays (in a large part due to my carpooling schedule).  Then I hit Wednesday and it becomes all downhill from there.  By the time I try to get back to it, I feel discouraged and figure I will just wait to start from the beginning.

The result is that I am really good at Core and Cardio.  Everything else?  Not so much.

So, today I did Core and hope that my new plan will work with the chaos that I call my life.

Day 7/8 and 9

Yeah, so between two soccer games, a kid birthday party and total exhaustion, I did not do Kenpo on Saturday.  I chose Sunday to not to a thing.  But, come Monday morning, I was still really sore so I stretched instead of doing Core.

Seriously-I do not think I could have done half of Core because I was so sore.  However, I got up at 5:45 (yes, that would be 5:45 in the morning) and stretched and it was really helpful.

This morning, I arose at 5:45 again (okay, so maybe I hit snooze for a few minutes) and did Cardio.  It felt great to sweat and get the work-out out of the way.  I figured this is the only way I can get the exercising done, leaving me with time for a shower during naptime before I have to leave to pick up Caleb from preschool. 

It is soooo not easy to get up that early, but I am really trying to make it a habit. 

Day 4, I mean 5

Yoga should have been done on Day 4, but I ran out of time.  I figured other parents at preschool pick-up would appreciate the fact that I used my morning time alone to shower instead of doing Yoga.  90 minutes is really hard to accomplish on my pick-up day.

I did do Legs and Back on Friday.  Yikes.  I have not done that one in months.  I am typing this a day later because my butt is so sore that it hurts to sit at the computer. 

I always figured when I skipped Legs and Back, that it was not a big deal.  My legs have always been pretty strong and who cares if I miss a few pull-ups?  Apparently, my legs were still pretty strong, but my butt, not so much.  I think it was the wall squats that really did me in.

Which leads me to wonder why I ever wasted money at the gym?  Why would I need to use their equipment when squatting against my living room wall does the same thing?

I did skip one part of the work-out and was careful about how much I did on a few of them because of my knees.  Listening to them crack from an old track injury was not fun.  Considering that I still feel the burn in my butt and thighs, something tells me that I still did enough.

Day 3 and Beyond

I did Shoulders and Arms last week.  Kept with the lighter weights since it had been awhile.  Plus, my thighs and surrounding areas were still sore from Monday's Core.

Pathetic, isn't it?

Anyway, meant to do Yoga on Thursday, but my entire day was gone before I even had one breath to give toward it.  Then I went out of town for my annual college girlfriend getaway.  I took my work-out clothes just in case.

Yes, I was full of crap.  I did not work out all weekend, but ate greasy, Southern food, had a few mixed drinks, and ate lots of pepperoni puffs that one of the girls is known for making.

It was quite lovely.

Back in the real world on Monday, I spent my last official day of summer cleaning up from my absence and getting everything ready for school.  Tuesday went by in a flash, since I had to spend all morning at the school.  Thought I would get back on track today, with everyone being at school.  Instead, I used my hour of Noah napping to finish reading a book.

Totally worth it.

I figured since I left off with last Wednesday, I will just pick up again tomorrow with Day 4. 

The encouraging thing was seeing all of the parents at school that I have not seen all summer.  I kept getting comments on how great I look.  Considering I have dropped 25 pounds since the spring, I must look a little different.  Still have a ways to go, though.

Maybe I should stop eating my no bake cookies while I type this.

Day 2

Amazing.  I made it another day on this comeback.

Did Cardio today.  Endured stretching while Abby kept looking between my legs to show me pictures that she was drawing.  Barely avoided kicking Nick while doing Kenpo as he was trying to leave to tutor.  And once again, I had two little work-out buddies.

Abby did a few stretches, then moved on with her day.  Caleb watched a bunch of it (even though I kept reminding him how much more fun the backyard is than watching a P90X DVD) and then joined in at the end.  I decided it was more fun to skip Superman/Banana and take this video of him instead.

Okay, so he did not have the best form or even work too many muscles, but it was still pretty cute.  I think I look better than that when doing it. 

For Real This Time

Started the program from the start-again.  I am not waiting until school starts-I am feeling too out of shape already.

So, with Noah taking his morning nap, Nick leaving to coach a golf match, and Abby and Caleb running around the room, I completed Core Synergistics. 

I really felt it, too.

At least the older two kids were somewhat good.  I only had to stop once to break up a fight.  Abby tried to work out with me in the beginning and got as far as the stretches before announcing, "Okay, I'm tired." 

Me, too, sweet girl.  Me, too.

Caleb joined in toward the end.  He really enjoyed trying to keep up, or at least his version of keeping up.  At least he was using up some of his endless, little boy energy on something besides torturing his sister.

All in all, not a bad beginning.