Day 12: Legs and Back/ARX

03Apr08

Still hating the bands.

But LOVING the leg portion of L&B! I really pushed myself and made the most of every rep. The only thing I had trouble with was the toe roll iso lunges because my sneakers kept slipping on the hardwood floor.

I did something a little different this time around. Most of the time when I work out I’ll open up the windows and/or turn the fan and/or AC on. This morning I left the windows as they were, just cracked, and left the fan off. And there was SWEAT!!!! Whoo hoo!

I had to pause a few times to get my heart rate in check. I’ve found that that is an issue when I don’t use the fan or open up the windows. Maybe the room’s too stuffy?  Maybe I need to lower my intensity a bit?

I also upped my weight on a few leg exercises and used my blue bands for the lunges. I really felt good after it was over. I struggled through ARX though. It was a solid workout, but I remember doing much much better with it when I did it later on in the evening. But seeing as how I felt like I wanted to hurl after I finished, I won’t be doing that again.

Still having some issued with crashing after workouts, and having very little post workout energy. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m not getting enough sleep or not using the “recovery drink” than everyone swears by, or if it’s the lack of carbs in my diet. In any case I shall press on.

I decided to go with fitday.com instead of sparkpeople.com for tracking. I e-mailed a woman who’s doing P90X with me on the beachbody forums and she gave me some suggestions on what to eat and also where to track food. I had done fitday.com once or twice in the past, (I didn’t even need to sign up, I already had a username and password!) but I am pretty sure I was doing WW at the time and didn’t need to be tracking my food in two different places. Although sparkpeople.com has a pie chart you can use to track where your cals are coming from, fitday.com has a similar pie chart that’s right there on the front page. It also has reports you can print out which detail your calorie intake each day, week, month, etc. It’s a little more no frills than sparkpeople.com, but at this point, I’m just trying to get BASIC with it. No more mind clutter with all kinds of extra unnecessary nonsense.

She said that she usually does carbs early in the day so that her body can have time to burn them off. I’m thinking I might need to up my carbs in my late meal so that I can have a little bit of a store for the mornings workout. We’ll see. Tonight I think I’m having pasta. I kinda miss pasta.

I’ve already decided that I’ll probably start a second round of this when I compete this one. My plan is to get the powerblocks and P90X+ and incorporate those into a routine. I’ll be finished with this rotation before my birthday and almost two months before my cruise so I will definitely have time to start a new rotation. Maybe that will help me NOT overeat while I’m on the cruise. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Tomorrow: Kenpo X!

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