I know it’s late, and I haven’t been posting lately. It’s been a bit crazy around here, but I promise a proper post later today

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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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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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