Arms & Shoulders

Last night I did the ARMS and SHOULDERS workout. I started it at 10 pm, but I stuck with the entire 60 minute workout. I did the entire workout (except the bonus round)....but only with a weight size of 5 pounds. I don't have any heavier weights right now. At least the 5 was a challenge and while I'm sore today I don't think I'll completely regret it tomorrow.

We had a neighborhood garage sale today and David and I walked with a friend her her daughter around the neighborhood (we did about a 2 mile loop) and I was looking for more hand weights. I didn't find any. I might have to suck it up and buy some new. Bummer.

Plyometrics

The dictionary defintes plyometrics as: "a type of exercise using explosive movements to develop muscular power, esp. bounding, hopping, and jumping"

And I totally agree.

Last night I did 60 minutes of that - hopping and jumping, and a lot of squats too. It was brutal and I couldn't finish every single set (I left about 5-6 seconds at the end of each one).

My legs are fatigued and sore today.

I'm surprised that my abs aren't screaming from the ab workout I did on Tuesday night. That's a good thing, I think.

Day 2

Unfortunately, I can't find the plyometrics DVD (which is jumping, lots and lots and lots of jumping)....so I couldn't do that workout today. Instead I did the Ab Ribber X. It's only 15 minutes but it's VERY intense. Yesterday (the real day 2) I played softball so that counts as some exercise.

While I won't be doing the workout daily....I will keep up with each work out and do them in order.

P90X - Day 1 (again)

I started P90X (again) today. It's difficult to keep up with any workout program...and I've tried this before....but it's by far my favorite - since I can do it at home, on my schedule....so that's why I'm trying it out again.

I'm not telling anyone...just posting it here and planning to keep up with it on this blog. So I guess if you are reading this blog, then you know....but I'm fairly certain no one does....and I'm OK with that.

So todays workout was arms and back with what seems like 100,000 push ups and pull ups. I do "girl" push ups and pull ups...but at least I did it.

Oh, and while this doesn't count towards P90X, I did jump on the trampoline for a while yesterday while my family was in town for Easter.

Shredding

So I'm doing The Shred in 2010. Today is day 2 and I'm already sore. Ugh. No pain no gain, right?

Memphis Half

Cara and I went to Memphis in December (the race that this whole blog was started for). It was ROUGH. Neither of us trained as we intended. My two surgeries in 2009 set me back a lot and I was having complications with my incision site until just a week or so ago.

It took us 3.5 hours to complete the 13 miles. That sucks. But we finished so that counts for something. We ran a lot of the first 6 miles, but the last 7 we walked all of it. Between Cara's shins and my non-trained self we decided to walk it out. We did get a pretty sweet finishers medal. :) It was freezing for the entire race (in the 20's when we started and low 30's when we finished).

Other than the race the weekend was great. We found a great little Italian place on Friday night to carb load at (that's what real runners do - so I heard). We also went to a Memphis Grizzlies game on Friday night. That was very cool...my first NBA game ever.

After the race on Saturday we went back to the Marriot to nap. Christy drove up and spent the evening with us. We ate at a diner on Beale Street, then went to a couple of bars. We had a fun time.

I've decided that I'm not cut out for long races. Actually, I hate running. I love the RACE, but hate the TRAINING. And if I'm not going to train, then I shouldn't race. So there you have it.

My 2010 goal is to lose weight and get healthy. That's easy enough, right? :)

Vulcan Run Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the Vulcan Run last weekend.

This was taken a week or two prior to the race at the office. My running buddy, Cara, was traveling so she didn't make it in this picture.
Team Vulcan right before the race started.

And here is Renard, he's apparently very happy to be up early on a Saturday morning.