Day 29 – Core Synergistics – Back To It!
Weight: -5.6 lbs from start
Back to core! Staring this month, I’m really trying to do more than keep up. I’m trying to instead push myself harder and harder each time. So today was about doing each workout while keeping my core flexed the whole time and doing whatever I can with more weight. For example, I pushed really hard to try to keep up with the 40 reps of the Mason Twist at the end even though I was pretty tuckered out at this point:
Day 30 – Running – Take the Easier Route
Weight: -5.8 lbs from start
I’m replacing the Cardio X workouts with a run instead. I find it to be a bit of a better cardio workout, plus I want to try to run a half marathon sometime in the next year, so this is a good way to start. The first time I did this, I ran about 3.8 miles, but wasn’t sure where I was going. The route turned out to be a steady uphill for about the first 3 miles and then downhill for the last mile. I turned that roue around this time and it was a TON easier. I’ll flip it back once it gets too easy…either that I’ll add a few miles to do a longer workout.
Check out my route here: http://www.runningmap.com/?id=275222
Day 31 – Chest, Shoulders & Triceps, Ab Ripper X – Darn You Tendonitis!!
Weight: -5.4 lbs from start
I started this workout, but stopped about 3 moves in because of the Tendonitis I’ve been developing in my shoulder. I’m going to have to take at least the next week off of arm workouts, which is a drag. Gonna probably replace it with some cardio instead. I did do the Ab Ripper X exercises. I’m beginning to like these more as I’m getting better at it. I want a six pack!
Day 32 – Yoga X – Date Day/Night
Weight: -4.8 lbs from start
I took Jenny out to Shipwreck Beads in Lacey, WA and then we had a little date night, having dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and watching the Fast Five. So no workout today, but just a nice day of quality time together.
Day 33 – Legs & Back, Ab Ripper X – How I Met Your Mother
Weight: -3.4 lbs from start
Ab Ripper X completion: ~330/349 reps
Skipped the pullups because of the tendonitis, so no update there, but a good workout otherwise. I’m getting close to being able to do all of the ab ripper exercise, so i’ll try to keep track of that.
Today the wife decided to sit out, so while we were watching our Netflixed disc of How I Met Your Mother, I had the workout muted on a laptop, so it made the time pass a bit faster.
Day 34 – Running – This is gonna take a while
Weight: -4.6 lbs from start
I think my pace slowed down compared to the last time by a minute or two. That was mostly because I was insanely sore from the Legs and Back workout. And that’s the way it should be…I hope for some part of me to be sore most of the week, though that’s not always happening.
Day 35 – Rest X – All time low weight!
Weight: -6.4 lbs from start
It’s all incremental, but suhweet!
