Combined post for days 5 and 6 since I did my day 6 early this morning.

Day 5
So day 5 was legs and shoulders. I’ve done this one before and it was a good workout. I hurt my toe on Wednesday night so I wasn’t able to do the toe-roll lunges because it hurt too much. The rest of the moves I was able to do pretty easily. In general, and it’s a difficult but rewarding workout. Since my legs don’t get nearly as much work as my upper body in my normal life, It’s good to be able to spend some time on them.

Abs were abs, hard, but I finished them all. I’m not as sore today as I was the last time I did ab ripper x, so that’s good.

Day 6
This morning, I woke up and did Kempo X. It was pretty much what I expected. I used to take kempo for my PE credits in High School (long time ago), so I remember alot of the drills we used to do. Also, I knew how to do most of the punches. I did, however, feel VERY uncoordinated when trying to do the hook/upper cut combination. I’d be fine on one side, but when I’d try to switch to the other side, I kept getting mixed up. I’m sure it’ll get easier with time, but wow.

Also, again, since legs aren’t usually a big thing for me, the kicking quickly tired me out. One move that I miss doing from my Kempo class, that, unfortunately, wasn’t in the Kempo X video is a series of 3 side kicks, Low, Middle, and High. I remember doing those and enjoying them.

This is the end of week one! I feel proud that I made it through almost all of them, though I’m a bit annoyed with myself that I skipped one of the ab ripper x workouts. Such is life though and I roll with it.

I’m going to try to take pictures tomorrow, though we are throwing a party so it may not happen until Sunday. Also, it’s measurement and video post time since it’s the end of week 1. Look for those all to be posted no later than Sunday. The new video will also be unscripted so I’m a bit more natural. I’ll just have talking points and then I’ll just ramble. Look for it!

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Last night was day 3. I didn’t get a chance to do my workout until 10:00pm last night, which completely screwed up my ability to sleep later on. Also, I ended up skipping Ab Ripper X because I was really tired by the time I was finished with Shoulders and Arms.

Overall, Shoulders and Arms was a good workout. Since I had done shoulders and arms in the p90x lean, I had some numbers/weights to compare it against. While I didn’t increase my reps any (and in some cases lowered the number of reps I did), I increased which bands I used. Last time, I used green (which is medium) for almost all of the exercises, but this time, I found Green to be too light, so I increased to red (medium-hard), and in one instance blue (hard).

I have a feeling I’m going to need to get the next band size up (black) which is the hardest one they make before I’m don’t with p90x.

Today, I’m planning to do YogaX and Ab Ripper X because I go to my aerial practice from 7p-9p today.

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Yesterday was my first day of p90x classic. After the come down from my show on Saturday, I was really exhausted, but doing the chest and back workout in the morning actually refreshed me and made me free more energetic. Of course, it still wore me out physically, but mentally I had more energy.

It was a good workout with lots of push ups and pull ups. I think I did a decent job, though I don’t have my numbers with me right now (I will post a follow-up post with the numbers). I know that I increased on a few things since the last time I did chest and back (like a month ago) but only by like 1-2 reps.

On Ab Ripper X, which I did in the evening, I increased quite a bit. I think it really helps to split the ab exercises out from the rest because then it allows me to recover my energy levels before actually getting to the ab routine.

While I’m not sore today, I can definitely tell that I’ll be sore tomorrow.

Also, I’m not 100% sure, but I’m probably going to delay day 2 until tomorrow. I forgot to reset my alarm to allow me to do the exercises this morning, and I don’t get home until close to 10 today. But, that’s okay. It just means week 1 is 8 days rather than the morning 7. That’s fine.

Day 0 pictures after the jump (I have measurements too, but again, I don’t have that data with me right now)
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Today was my postponed Day 3 of p90x Lean. Today was definitely harder than the other days, though I was less sweaty by the end of it than the other days. I can definitely feel the work out that my shoulders got. Here is the information about my shoulders and arms workout. The green and red are the bands that I used for those exercises. Now, the progression from easiest to hardest is yellow, green, red, blue. I’m finding that the red and green are a good choice in places and too light in others. It will be a bit of a learning process over time and eventually I’ll know exactly which bands to use.

• Alternating Shoulder Press - 14 - green
• In & Out Bicep Curl - 16 - green
• Two-Arm Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Alternating Shoulder Press - 14 - green
• In & Out Bicep Curl - 16 - red
• Two-Arm Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Deep Swimmer’s Press - 17 - green
• Full Supination Concentration Curl - 14 - green
• Chair Dip - 12
• Deep Swimmer’s Press - 16 - red
• Full Supination Concentration Curl - 13 - red
• Chair Dip - 15
• Upright Row - 16 - green
• Static Arm Curl - 20 - green
• Flip-Grip Twist Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Upright Row - 17 - red
• Static Arm Curl - 16 - red
• Flip-Grip Twist Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Fly - 16 - green
• Crouching Cohen Curl - 25 - green
• Lying-Down Triceps Extension - 16 - green
• Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Fly - 16 - green
• Crouching Cohen Curl - 20 - red
• Lying-Down Triceps Extension - 17 - green

And then once that was over, I had to do ab ripper x, which completely kicked my ass. Of course, it’s not surprising given the I had an aerial class last night. Anyway, here is the ab ripper x information:

• In & Out - 25
• Seated Bicycle - 25
• Seated Crunchy Frog - 25
• Crossed Leg/Wide Leg Sit-Up - 25
• Fifer Scissor - 19
• Hip Rock ‘N Raise - 22
• Pulse-Up - 13
• Roll up/v up combo - 19
• Oblique V-Up - Right - 21
• Oblique V-Up - Left - 21
• Leg Climb - Right - 12
• Leg Climb - Left - 12
• Mason Twist - 40

That’s all for today. I’ll try to get a video post done for week one

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