Workout: Run 3 miles
Not getting any easier, but I'm not going to give up. Right now, though, I'm spent! I just want to curl up on the couch and watch Cake Boss with the girls, lol!
One thing that keeps me going is knowing that I've done this before - I've started from scratch and I've gotten into good condition and I've run 13 miles without a break. I've done it. I can do it again, I just need to keep conditioning and training. While I'm not ready to train for a race yet, I CAN work on my cardiovascular conditioning while I'm also allowing Tony Horton to kill me with strength training.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Monday November , 2011
Workout: P90x Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
New workout this morning - I hate it when they're new - I fall behind because I don't know what I'm doing. My arms are pretty much achy and tired right now. Not sure what I thought about this one... I do feel like I was pretty weak in my ability to do (or not do) pushups. I felt really, really not strong this morning.
I'm going to try to get a run in this afternoon and make today a 2-a-day. I don't want to kill myself with all of this, but I'm really disturbed and frustrated with my lack of cardiovascular ability and want to get some conditioning in throughout the week. So I'm going to try to get a running workout in on the days that p90x is weight training. So I'm thinking my schedule will look like:
M - Chest/Shoulders/Tris + 30:00 run
T - Plyometrics
W - Back & Biceps + 30:00 run
Th - Kenpo (switching kenpo & yoga due to time)
F - Legs & Back + 30:00 run
S - Yoga
It might be kind of crappy, but I'm going to try to do it.
New workout this morning - I hate it when they're new - I fall behind because I don't know what I'm doing. My arms are pretty much achy and tired right now. Not sure what I thought about this one... I do feel like I was pretty weak in my ability to do (or not do) pushups. I felt really, really not strong this morning.
I'm going to try to get a run in this afternoon and make today a 2-a-day. I don't want to kill myself with all of this, but I'm really disturbed and frustrated with my lack of cardiovascular ability and want to get some conditioning in throughout the week. So I'm going to try to get a running workout in on the days that p90x is weight training. So I'm thinking my schedule will look like:
M - Chest/Shoulders/Tris + 30:00 run
T - Plyometrics
W - Back & Biceps + 30:00 run
Th - Kenpo (switching kenpo & yoga due to time)
F - Legs & Back + 30:00 run
S - Yoga
It might be kind of crappy, but I'm going to try to do it.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Friday November 4, 2011
Catchup for the last 3 days...
Wednesday
Workout: P90x KenpoX
Did this workout in the morning with Dave and it will never, ever happen again! I've already told him this:) He is so out of sync with Tony and the crew and I could see it out of the corner of my eye and I.can't.stand.it!!! He comes by his rhythm naturally. He is, after all, his mother and father's son. I love him, but I cannot do this workout with him ever again, unless he get super awesome at it in the next 2 months! We had a good laugh over this last night.
Thursday
Workout: run 3 miles at a 10:00/mile pace
Was supposed to do YogaX, but the alarms never went off. I wasn't planning to do Yoga anyway - I had already decided to try to run again. Since I didn't wake up early enough, I ran at 5pm. It wasn't a whole lot better than Monday. My heart rate was still mid-180's. I gutted it out to 15:00 solid minutes of running before taking a 2:00 walking break. It really becomes much more of a mental battle... running at that high of a heart rate is like a normal person sprinting as fast as they can for 15 straight minutes. Its impossible to sustain, but mentally I battle through it. It hurts... nothing really HURTS - like my lungs aren't burning, my legs feel totally fine, nothing hurts, it is just really, really painful to try to sustain running at that high of a heart rate. I need to keep adding the running so I can condition myself back to a more comfortable place. Still frustrated about this, but I want to be able to run, so I'm going to have to have a couple of days/week of 2-a-days. We'll see how that works out.
Friday -
Workout: Core Synergistics
This was much better than the other day when I did it the first time. I knew what the exercises were and I knew how to do them. I performed them better, but it wasn't as if it was easier. This is just a tough, tough workout. Can't say I'm sad to see it omitted from the rotation next week!
Weight on Friday: 127.4
Again, happy with a 1lb loss from last week. This is just how it goes - I certainly wish it were 4lbs/week, but thats just not going to happen:) My clothes feel better and thats most important. I still believe I'm retaining a significant amount of water because I'm having so much trouble with my hands during the night. Waking up several times a night with a completely numb right hand.
Wednesday
Workout: P90x KenpoX
Did this workout in the morning with Dave and it will never, ever happen again! I've already told him this:) He is so out of sync with Tony and the crew and I could see it out of the corner of my eye and I.can't.stand.it!!! He comes by his rhythm naturally. He is, after all, his mother and father's son. I love him, but I cannot do this workout with him ever again, unless he get super awesome at it in the next 2 months! We had a good laugh over this last night.
Thursday
Workout: run 3 miles at a 10:00/mile pace
Was supposed to do YogaX, but the alarms never went off. I wasn't planning to do Yoga anyway - I had already decided to try to run again. Since I didn't wake up early enough, I ran at 5pm. It wasn't a whole lot better than Monday. My heart rate was still mid-180's. I gutted it out to 15:00 solid minutes of running before taking a 2:00 walking break. It really becomes much more of a mental battle... running at that high of a heart rate is like a normal person sprinting as fast as they can for 15 straight minutes. Its impossible to sustain, but mentally I battle through it. It hurts... nothing really HURTS - like my lungs aren't burning, my legs feel totally fine, nothing hurts, it is just really, really painful to try to sustain running at that high of a heart rate. I need to keep adding the running so I can condition myself back to a more comfortable place. Still frustrated about this, but I want to be able to run, so I'm going to have to have a couple of days/week of 2-a-days. We'll see how that works out.
Friday -
Workout: Core Synergistics
This was much better than the other day when I did it the first time. I knew what the exercises were and I knew how to do them. I performed them better, but it wasn't as if it was easier. This is just a tough, tough workout. Can't say I'm sad to see it omitted from the rotation next week!
Weight on Friday: 127.4
Again, happy with a 1lb loss from last week. This is just how it goes - I certainly wish it were 4lbs/week, but thats just not going to happen:) My clothes feel better and thats most important. I still believe I'm retaining a significant amount of water because I'm having so much trouble with my hands during the night. Waking up several times a night with a completely numb right hand.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday November 1, 2011
Workout: P90x Core Synergistics
Wow. So really, Tony? THIS is recovery week? Whatever, dude!
Core Synergistics. Ouch - this is by far the hardest workout so far, in my opinion. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I never, ever, ever work on my core/abs. So this was tough. It is a bunch of exercises that engage many muscles at the same time, mostly the core stabilizing muscles. There were a few exercises that I simply couldn't complete because I'm weak. And there were a few than I just said "screw it" on because I was so exhausted. I know that when I do it next time, I'll be better, because I will have done it once already - Tony does not demonstrate the moves before kicking off the timer, he just goes into them, so I have to watch him first and then do it... missing out on a few reps each time.
Yesterday was trick-or-treating. I usually begin a freefall of gluttony on the day of Halloween. In normal years, I will have already consumed large quantities of candy corn throughout the month and then while trick or treating with the girls I throw all self discipline out and eat candy while we walk, and then have more after they go to bed. This kicks of several weeks of eating 3-4 pieces every night before bed and maybe 1 or 2 during the day. Leading right into Thanksgiving, where I give up complete control for the 4 day weekend, which is followed closely by biscotti mania for the next 6 weeks. At that point I find it difficult to not give in to my intense desire for a treat with my morning coffee - and homemade biscotti fills that roll perfectly. I start out having one each morning and pretty soon it is 2-3 each morning. Add all of that to the mass quantities of butter and chocolate that pass the threshold of the house during Christmas and I find the scale to say I weigh 7lbs more than before halloween. It happens every year. Then I spend the next few months working it off.
I'm very happy with myself today, because I resisted candy corn all month. I have eaten about 15 pieces total - and that was a tiny handful on Sunday afternoon. With my candy-resisting confidence brimming over, I also resisted all trick or treat candy yesterday - while trick or treating and afterward. I knew that once I started, I wouldn't stop. I feel like I can now get through the next 3 weeks to Thanksgiving without getting out of control. I am living self-discipline right now and that always makes me feel really, really good about myself. Congratulations to me!
Wow. So really, Tony? THIS is recovery week? Whatever, dude!
Core Synergistics. Ouch - this is by far the hardest workout so far, in my opinion. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I never, ever, ever work on my core/abs. So this was tough. It is a bunch of exercises that engage many muscles at the same time, mostly the core stabilizing muscles. There were a few exercises that I simply couldn't complete because I'm weak. And there were a few than I just said "screw it" on because I was so exhausted. I know that when I do it next time, I'll be better, because I will have done it once already - Tony does not demonstrate the moves before kicking off the timer, he just goes into them, so I have to watch him first and then do it... missing out on a few reps each time.
Yesterday was trick-or-treating. I usually begin a freefall of gluttony on the day of Halloween. In normal years, I will have already consumed large quantities of candy corn throughout the month and then while trick or treating with the girls I throw all self discipline out and eat candy while we walk, and then have more after they go to bed. This kicks of several weeks of eating 3-4 pieces every night before bed and maybe 1 or 2 during the day. Leading right into Thanksgiving, where I give up complete control for the 4 day weekend, which is followed closely by biscotti mania for the next 6 weeks. At that point I find it difficult to not give in to my intense desire for a treat with my morning coffee - and homemade biscotti fills that roll perfectly. I start out having one each morning and pretty soon it is 2-3 each morning. Add all of that to the mass quantities of butter and chocolate that pass the threshold of the house during Christmas and I find the scale to say I weigh 7lbs more than before halloween. It happens every year. Then I spend the next few months working it off.
I'm very happy with myself today, because I resisted candy corn all month. I have eaten about 15 pieces total - and that was a tiny handful on Sunday afternoon. With my candy-resisting confidence brimming over, I also resisted all trick or treat candy yesterday - while trick or treating and afterward. I knew that once I started, I wouldn't stop. I feel like I can now get through the next 3 weeks to Thanksgiving without getting out of control. I am living self-discipline right now and that always makes me feel really, really good about myself. Congratulations to me!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday October 31, 2011
Workout: Run 3 miles (30:57)
Today begins the p90x recovery week. I was supposed to do Yoga this morning, but I really didn't feel like getting out of bed that early, so I opted to run instead. I'm not sure if that is Tony Horton/p90x approved strategy for recovery, but too bad.
Running was horrible. Actually I felt okay, but my heartrate was sky-high. After 1 mile my heart rate was 186. Obviously, I'm not getting enough cardio training in while doing the p90x, because that is way too high. It is not even slightly maintainable for very long. And I wasn't running very fast - 10:00/mile. I stopped to walk for 1:30/2:00 a couple of times, and my heartrate would come down, but it would go right back up there when I ran for longer than a minute. Its pretty discouraging, because I want to run and I enjoy running, but the high heartrate makes it nearly impossible to use running as a once in a while cardio workout... I feel like I have to give it up altogether, or I have to run several times a week consistently. Not sure if want to do either of those any more. Right now I'm not ready to train for a race, but was thinking of training for one after the New Year... however, with that high of heart rate problems, it makes me dread doing it, because it hurts to be working at that intensity for too long.
So maybe I'm going to have to consider adding some running into my p90x. Like maybe doing a second workout a couple of times a week. I'll have to think that through, because I don't know if I want to go that route. I guess I need to really sit down and consider my goals and whether 2x/daily workouts would be needed. I don't know... I'm just really bothered by how difficult it is for me to run and why it seems so effortless for anyone else - like most people can take time off for a while and then just go out there and run 3-4 miles, no problem. I think Dave could do that - he hasn't run consistently for several months, but I'm pretty sure that if he wanted to he could go out and run 3 miles without a problem. I really hate that it is so incredibly difficult for me... and that if I take any kind of break, then it is so hard and painful to get back.
For the last several days, I've thought about going out for a run down my 5 mile route. The weather has been nice, the route is really pretty at this time of year, I remember loving that run. But I can't just pick it up so easily and that bugs the crap out of me.
My weight was the same on Saturday - no gain/loss. I guess thats fine, but I do think that I was retaining some water because my hands are falling asleep a lot lately. So hopefully, I will make up for it this week and see a loss.
Today begins the p90x recovery week. I was supposed to do Yoga this morning, but I really didn't feel like getting out of bed that early, so I opted to run instead. I'm not sure if that is Tony Horton/p90x approved strategy for recovery, but too bad.
Running was horrible. Actually I felt okay, but my heartrate was sky-high. After 1 mile my heart rate was 186. Obviously, I'm not getting enough cardio training in while doing the p90x, because that is way too high. It is not even slightly maintainable for very long. And I wasn't running very fast - 10:00/mile. I stopped to walk for 1:30/2:00 a couple of times, and my heartrate would come down, but it would go right back up there when I ran for longer than a minute. Its pretty discouraging, because I want to run and I enjoy running, but the high heartrate makes it nearly impossible to use running as a once in a while cardio workout... I feel like I have to give it up altogether, or I have to run several times a week consistently. Not sure if want to do either of those any more. Right now I'm not ready to train for a race, but was thinking of training for one after the New Year... however, with that high of heart rate problems, it makes me dread doing it, because it hurts to be working at that intensity for too long.
So maybe I'm going to have to consider adding some running into my p90x. Like maybe doing a second workout a couple of times a week. I'll have to think that through, because I don't know if I want to go that route. I guess I need to really sit down and consider my goals and whether 2x/daily workouts would be needed. I don't know... I'm just really bothered by how difficult it is for me to run and why it seems so effortless for anyone else - like most people can take time off for a while and then just go out there and run 3-4 miles, no problem. I think Dave could do that - he hasn't run consistently for several months, but I'm pretty sure that if he wanted to he could go out and run 3 miles without a problem. I really hate that it is so incredibly difficult for me... and that if I take any kind of break, then it is so hard and painful to get back.
For the last several days, I've thought about going out for a run down my 5 mile route. The weather has been nice, the route is really pretty at this time of year, I remember loving that run. But I can't just pick it up so easily and that bugs the crap out of me.
My weight was the same on Saturday - no gain/loss. I guess thats fine, but I do think that I was retaining some water because my hands are falling asleep a lot lately. So hopefully, I will make up for it this week and see a loss.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Tuesday October 25, 2011
Workout: P90x PlyometriX
Ugh, plyometrix is so hard. And its supposed to be - high impact jump training. I sweat so much during this workout and breathe so hard. But its good. And I'm so thankful that it is on Tuesday and I get it over with in the beginning of the week rather than having to look forward to it later in the week when my body is tired.
So this is the last week of the regular p90x schedule before a week of recovery. I'm looking forward to the recovery week - I don't think its going to be a cakewalk, but more cardio and stretching and less muscle training. And NO plyometrix for a week!
Felt like complete crap yesterday. Woke up feeling more stuffed than yesterday, but less sinus pressure, which is better. No nausea this morning and feeling decent right now.
Have I mentioned: no plyometrix for 2 weeks?
Ugh, plyometrix is so hard. And its supposed to be - high impact jump training. I sweat so much during this workout and breathe so hard. But its good. And I'm so thankful that it is on Tuesday and I get it over with in the beginning of the week rather than having to look forward to it later in the week when my body is tired.
So this is the last week of the regular p90x schedule before a week of recovery. I'm looking forward to the recovery week - I don't think its going to be a cakewalk, but more cardio and stretching and less muscle training. And NO plyometrix for a week!
Felt like complete crap yesterday. Woke up feeling more stuffed than yesterday, but less sinus pressure, which is better. No nausea this morning and feeling decent right now.
Have I mentioned: no plyometrix for 2 weeks?
Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday October 24, 2011
Workout: P90x Back & Chest
Ugh, felt like crap when I woke up this morning. I've had a tickle in my throat for over a week and would have coughing fits starting at 7:45 every night and sometimes in the middle of the night. Other than that tickle/cough, though, I had no other issues. This morning I woke up with postnasal drip and was nauseous. I got up and got going, though, because this is the time of year where the house is dry and mornings suck. I have not felt any better yet. I fought nausea throughout the entire workout. So far today, I've been stuffed up, my ears hurt and I want to eat anything and everything (because I'm sick and don't have the energy to exhibit will-power). I've been good and haven't been eating everything, but its a mental struggle.
Workout was good even while feeling sick. I did more pushups on each set than I did last week, which is awesome. To see progress is really encouraging. I think I finally got the hang of the pullup situation - not that I've done even one pullup or chinup without the support of the chair, but I'm working on it. Hopefully by the end of these three weeks I'll be able to do at least 1!
This afternoon I've given up on being productive. I feel like crap, so I've camped out in front of the tv and am watching bad tv and trying to get more world series tickets. Its gorgeous outside today, too, so booooo about all of this!
Ugh, felt like crap when I woke up this morning. I've had a tickle in my throat for over a week and would have coughing fits starting at 7:45 every night and sometimes in the middle of the night. Other than that tickle/cough, though, I had no other issues. This morning I woke up with postnasal drip and was nauseous. I got up and got going, though, because this is the time of year where the house is dry and mornings suck. I have not felt any better yet. I fought nausea throughout the entire workout. So far today, I've been stuffed up, my ears hurt and I want to eat anything and everything (because I'm sick and don't have the energy to exhibit will-power). I've been good and haven't been eating everything, but its a mental struggle.
Workout was good even while feeling sick. I did more pushups on each set than I did last week, which is awesome. To see progress is really encouraging. I think I finally got the hang of the pullup situation - not that I've done even one pullup or chinup without the support of the chair, but I'm working on it. Hopefully by the end of these three weeks I'll be able to do at least 1!
This afternoon I've given up on being productive. I feel like crap, so I've camped out in front of the tv and am watching bad tv and trying to get more world series tickets. Its gorgeous outside today, too, so booooo about all of this!
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