end of first month

well, if y'all have been staying on track, today is the first day of month two. how is everyone doing thus far? i have lost 6 pounds already, but this is getting difficult and i am rather unmotivated at the moment. this might help though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64&feature=related


stop slacking assholes!!!

CATS

Cats are apparently the most important part of p90x. Or at least, they think they are. Sheyanne and I did legs and back together today, while being constantly attacked, harassed, and critiqued by the cats. Want to put a foot down? Nope, sorry. Cat there.

IT'S OKAY, IT MAKES IT HARDER, MORE INTENSITY. CATS WANT YOU TO BRING IT.

So does this strawberry. It is the largest strawberry either of us have ever seen, and we could only come to one conclusion. This strawberry is the time traveling reincarnation of Tony Horton, sent back through the very fabric of the universe to keep us EXCITED about BRINGING IT. 

SO WE ARE BRINGING IT. 

WHATEVER IT IS. 

POSSIBLY A PICNIC, OR A NICE GAME OF SCRABBLE. 

THERE'S NO TELLING.

P90X. INTENSE. INSANE. MYSTERIOUS?

-Sean

I am drinking at a party

We have decided that we are failures by ourselves and must police ourselves by working out in groups.

Damn this mimosa is delicious.


My husband berated me earlier for wanting to drink as it shall 'undo all of the work you just did'



I just watched him do a shot of tequila mind you.


Ahem.

The face of someone who hates Plyometrics...

According to Sean, we have to post pictures of ourselves to badger each other into working out. I think he just likes putting sweaty photos of himself on the Internet. Regardless, here's my post-Plyometrics face from yesterday when I was on the urge of vomiting/imploding/hunting down "Man oh Manischewitz" guy and killing him.

Caffeine reduction, plyometrics and tendons, and throwing something extra in the mix

I hate life. 

Today I did plyometrics for the first time in half a year. I felt pretty confident about my achilles holding up to the abuse and happily, nothing in my leg exploded.

I also managed to make it through half the plyometric workout without caffeine, a huge jump from the lackluster energy singularity I was just three days ago. I supplemented at 35 minutes left with one of those FRS quercetin drinks (the apricot nectarine one doesn't taste bad). My goal is to slowly reduce my caffeine intake to nil by next week.


I remember when I watched Matt, Bess, and Sheyanne were doing the plyometrics they all kind of gave up out of disgust at the cheesy "sports-reference" moves towards the end of the workout, and honestly I gave up right about then because I was just fucking beat. I didn't want to completely stop exercising anymore, my legs just couldn't take it after no leg workouts for almost a half a year.

I gave myself a two minute rest after the p90x plyometric workout and finished my caffeine drink, had some water, and started doing the KFM boxing high impact routine I created for when I couldn't use my achilles while working out. Since the plyometric workout focuses almost completely on legs, my arms were still very strong, and I managed the full 8 sets - 1 minute of punching/blocking/kicking/footwork (any one of these or some/all mixed together) with 30 seconds rest.

You can go up to 1 minute of rest, but any higher and after that long plyometric workout beforehand you'll probably start to cool down too much.

On top of getting rid of the stupid "Baseball pitch" "basketball hoop" moves that all of us non-sport fans curl a lip at, I'm certain boston and I could easily build a 1 hour routine to replace the shitty kempo class that we only ended up with half of the video for.

Imagine that, a cardio training workout for a fighting style you might actually be able to use in real life!

OH. EVERYONE ELSE NEEDS TO START POSTING SWEATY AFTER WORKOUT PICTURES.

K. bye.