I’ve been crazy busy lately. I’m trying to find and buy a home since my lease is almost up and I’m at a point where I want to own, not lease.

So much of my time has been taken up with that, and all the things that go into that. I have been, mostly, doing my exercises though I needed to take two days off.

To give a quick recap from the last time I posted:

Day 7 was a rest day (Saturday)
Day 8 was chest and back again. Had more consistant results across the board with a few moderate increases (Sunday)
Aerial Day (Monday) so no p90x
Day 9 Plyometrics. Have I mentioned that I really don’t enjoy this exercise? I know it’s good for me, but I hate it. I do it, but I hate it. (Tuesday)
Aerial Day (Wednesday) so no p90x
Aerial Day (Thursday) I had a make up class from earlier in the week, so no p90x. There were only three of us in class that day, and they were all advanced people so I learned new stuff, including this one really awesome drop called the double star where you spin around twice in the air before stopping at the bottom of the rope
Friday and Saturday, I was just lazy as all hell so I took the days off
Day 10 Shoulders and Arms (Sunday) - jumped all of them up to the harder blue band. I feel like I’m going to have to go buy the black band soon.
Aerial Day (Monday) so no p90x.

So, here is the bad news. During class last night, I hurt my left shoulder. I’m massively annoyed by this for many different reasons. I’m going to do a video post tonight to explain everything, but yeah needless to say, I’m not a happy camper.

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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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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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