I've fallen a bit behind. Sorry folks! I ended up having to sit all of last week out because I was sick. Somehow, though, at the end of the week, I was down to 150.4 pounds! I don't know how much that has to do with "real" weight loss, or maybe just water weight or something else thrown off from being sick, we'll just have to see what the scale does next week!
Monday was President's Day, so I had the day off work. I spent the day with my husband doing some shopping and stuff (got some new running shoes!) We were both still shaking off the last of our symptoms too, so I didn't do a workout that day. I don't feel too bad skipping Monday, though, because we did a lot of walking around.
I got started on my workouts again on Tuesday. When you miss a week's worth of workouts, you can tell! The workout du jour was Cardio X, and it was tough! It was especially hard because I still had a bit of a cough that has been lingering ever since I first got sick. I got through it, though, and I was glad to get back into the game!
Since I'm starting Phase 2, Wednesday was a new workout for me: Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps. Oh wow. This workout is evil! The very first exercise we do after the warm up is slow motion push ups. Now, if you're like me, and not very good at push ups to begin with, doing them in slow motion reminds you of that fact VERY quickly! And Evil Tony makes you do them three different ways! First, arms wide, then normal, then really close in! My arms are already shaking by the time I'm done with these, and I still have about 45 minutes to go! Oh goody! ...Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic! Anyway, there are various different shoulder presses, and tricep curls that we do to further pulverize my upper body, and I had no idea there were so many different ways to do a push up! Holy cow! Some of the exercises were kind of awkward to begin with, mainly because it was my first time doing them, couple that with my arms and shoulders getting increasingly exhausted by the minute, I bet it would have been amusing for anyone to watch me struggle through this workout... Of course I don't workout before an audience for a reason! Haha! I do get through the whole workout more or less, although some of the exercises I could only do, like, three reps, but that should improve with practice... but I realize that I'm not done yet... Yes, after nearly two weeks without it, it's Ab Ripper X again...
Crimony, I always seem to forget about that one! I decided to try something a little different this time. They do 25 reps of each exercise, but they go through each of them pretty quickly, especially the first three of four exercises. I used to just follow along with the video, but I usually have to take a break or two depending on the move we're doing. When the folks on the video finish a move, I finish, whether or not I've actually completed all 25 reps. This time, I decided to try pausing the video at each exercise. I went at my own pace, and still had to take breaks, but I made it a point to all 25 reps of the exercises. Then I would move on to next exercise, pause it there, and do the full set of 25 reps and so on... That lasted for about the first half of the workout.... then I finally got so tired that I just let the video run normally and I did as many as I could get through with the last of the workout! It was a lot harder to do it that way, and I didn't do it that way for the entire workout, but I will probably continue to do it that way and see how I progress!
I do have to confess that those are the only two workouts I've done all week. Thursday was just too busy. I got off work early, but my cousin was going through the Temple, so we were gone all afternoon and evening. It was almost 11:00 when I got home that night, so no yoga for me on Thursday. I was out with family all evening on Friday and didn't make it home till late. Plus, I've still had this cough that just won't seem to completely go away.
Overall, it's been a bit of a struggle so far this week to get the motivation to get back into the swing of things. Getting sick and having to rest kind of made me lose momentum. I don't want to quit though, I've made too much progress already to just throw in the towel. There are a couple more days in the week, though. I can still do the workouts I need to do, and start a new week next week and hopefully I can really dig in and get the most out of it!
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