Day 5: Legs and Back/ARX

27Mar08

Legs and Back kinda rocked. I really think there should have been a separate DVD JUST for legs. Although this one is in every week that’s not a recovery week, so at least I’ll be working legs once a week. I’ve thought about doing a sepatate leg workout with just the leg parts of this one, but I’m not sure. That might be Tony overkill. Not that I don’t love him mind you, I’m just glad there is a “Tony OFF” option.

I liked L&B because it wasn’t the usual endless squats/deadlifts/leg presses I’m used to. Which was part of the reason I was so BORED with NROL4W. I wasn’t feeling too much burn, but I was trying to pace myself. Next time I’ll go a little harder and definitely use weights for some of the exercises.

I’m kinda hating the bands. But since there is nowhere for me to do pull ups I’m stuck with them. I was using the red band which I think is about 30 pounds, but I needed to do like mad reps in order to feel anything. I thought about keeping it that light just for the first week, but in L&B Tony says something about switching bands if you think it’s too light, so I did. Switching in the middle of the workout woulda been okay if I had known HOW to switch the damn bands before I popped out the red one. I spent like almost 10 minutes in the middle of everything trying to figure out how to pop in the green band. The secret: Step on the band, close to the end with the left foot, stretch out the end with the right hand, and pop the handle on with the left.

I might need more handles though. I’ve been using weights with the exercises that call for weights, but I want to do a few with the bands, just to get a different kind of burn. I guess I’ll have to do that with a workout that doesn’t require pull ups or chin ups so I can switch back to the red band. Either than or just change it really quickly now that I know how.

More band madness: Still hating them in place of pullups/chinups. Do I sit? Stand? Kneel? I’ve tried it all ways and I KNOW I’m not really getting my back as well as I would be if I could do pullups. Oh well, can’t do anything about that I guess…

Now if only I could get my DAMN eating under control. UGH! I don’t want to blow this. I don’t want to do all this work and not get really great results! Every day is a freaking struggle with food. I just can’t make myself do what I KNOW I need to do.

I’m thinking about purchasing a little gift for myself when I’m done with this. If I get to my goal of at least a 15 pounds loss I want to get some PowerBlock dumbbells.

$250 for the pair I want plus $60 for shipping. But it would be so nice not to have to buy any more dumbbells and clear up some space in my “fitness closet.” My mom would FLIP if I bought them now since she’d be the one to wait for the UPS man and then I’d HAVE to tell her what they were. But if I can complete these 90 days, and lost at least 15 pounds, that will be my reward.

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Tags: P90X, resistance bands, legs, back, powerblock