Day 5: You Can Do It All Night Long!

I didn't get my workout in till almost midnight last night, heheh, but I got it done! The workout of the day was Legs & Back. Boy oh boy, I felt this one! Basically, it was lots of squats, lunges, and pull ups! The leg moves were hard, but I could pretty much do all of them. If any of you are curious what doing 75 calf raises in a row feels like, it's kind of like someone taking a blow torch to your calf muscles! And the wall squats! Oh jeez... those had me grunting and writhing and making all kinds of weird faces and stuff... Then Tony wanted us to do them on one leg at a time. Yeah. I may or may not have said a few bad words during that...  In general, The way the workout was set up was we would do two leg moves, then do a set of pull ups of some kind. Now, pull ups are a funny thing for me. When I try to do one, like the real way, I strain, and flex, and pull as hard as I can, and still pretty much just hang there like an idiot. Thankfully, they offer some options to modify them, so I can actually accomplish something other than just hanging around! You can either use resistance bands that you hang from above you and pull down like a lat pull, or have a chair or stool below you so you can use one leg to support yourself while you pull up with the chin-up bar. I chose the latter for this time around, because I have this weird fear that the bands will snap on me at any moment and take my eye out or something! However, it felt like I may have been relying a little too much on the chair and using my leg, rather than my arms and back muscles, to get high enough. Of course, I want to make sure I'm working the right muscle groups, otherwise, what's the point of doing the exercises? So maybe next time I will experiment with resistance bands and see how I do with those.
Finally, the workout is over! My legs feel like jello, I'm a sweaty mess and I was pulling a Tammy Faye Baker with what was left of my eye makeup. We do a nice little cool down, and then I remember what was still ahead... Ab Ripper X. Aw man... Well, gotta do what I gotta do, this jelly belly (and I don't mean the jelly beans) of mine isn't going away on its own. Some of the moves I could have sworn I did a little better on than just a couple of days ago. Could I already be making progress?! Some of them are still nearly impossible though. The oblique v-ups are extremely awkward, I'll have to practice those more. I make it through the Ripper once more and I'm beat. By now it's 1:00 am, so sleep comes very easily tonight!