So Today was day one of p90x. It is also the first saturday in a long while where the weather is decent, so the S.O. wants to go hiking. We are going hike to Bridal Veil Falls over near Sultan, WA.  It’s a wonderful hike, and about 3 miles round trip, but it’s almost entirely climbing on the way out.

So to recap my crazy day.  6:00am, Core Synergistics p90x, 8:00am Aerial Rehearsal, 2:00pm strenuous hike up to some beautiful falls.  Will I get my ass kicked into shape with p90x if I keep this rate up?  You betcha!

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As I said in the last post, I’ve decided to do the p90x Lean until after my show at the end of the month so that I’m not too sore for the show. As it is, I’ll be just ending Week 2 when the show happens, so at least it will be a “rest day” for me.

I woke up early this morning so I could do my Day 1 DVD, which for lean is Core Synergistics. It was a fun workout and definitely had me sweating quite a bit by the end. There were only a few moves that I wasn’t able to finish fully. Specifically walking push-ups and Squat X Press. For walking push-ups, I had to stop about 15 seconds from the end because I just couldn’t keep going.

For Squat X Press, I think I chose the wrong resistance band to do 30. I finished 15 of them with the Red (Medium) Band, but because I didn’t have any of the other bands available, I finished the last 15 with no weight. Next time, I’ll just try with the next band size down.

Overall, it was an enjoyable, but slightly less intense workout than I was expecting, when compared to the Chest and Back Day that I tried out. I’m okay with that for this phase, but I’m definitely looking forward to starting the classic, 30 days from now.

It was a very nice surprise to see Dreya Weber [her website] on the dvd. Dreya is an aerialist like myself, though she does lyra (hoop) which I don’t do. It’s still nice to see a fellow aerialist sweating along side of me.

Now it’s time to eat a light breakfast and to go to rehearse my trapeze routine with my partner.

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I am starting this blog as a way to motivate myself to exercise more and to push myself harder. I’m an aerial acrobat, but I’m far from fit. While I can climb a 20 foot rope with just my arms, I’m not at all where I want to be.

The first thing I will be doing is checking out the p90x system. My friend let me borrow the chest and back DVD to check it out and see how I like it. It’s 45 minutes of chest and back exercises, and 15 minutes of abs. I was going to do it today, but I ran out of time. I will probably check out the chest and back portion of the dvd tomorrow morning.  If I like it, I’ll be buying the 12 dvd package.

I start a new aerial class tomorrow which will concentrate mainly on rope.

Also, for this blog, I plan to do a weekly video podcast as part of my weekly photo weigh in. I haven’t decided if I will make the pictures public, but I probably will.

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