Celebrating! The ol' stroke-beaten, dystonia body has made it 3 weeks as of today. Three weeks, 6 days a week! A week from Monday I take my second set of pictures. That's a scary thought. LOL Anyway, it went great and I felt terrific afterwards. I think a lot has to do with not only my body slowly adjusting to the new schedule, but downing vitamins.
I'm taking:
- multi-vitamin
- calcium/magnesium/D-3
- CoQ10
- B12
- Vitamin C with rose hips
Anyway, it's helped me go from having to take a nap afterwards, to doing what I did today:
- Ride scooter in town to deliver AVON & pick up litter.
- Work in mom's garden, clearing & picking green beans & tomatoes.
- Clearing my garden.
- Hauling debris to the compost bin.
- Sanitizing the litterbox.
- Hand-washing my sleeping bag.
I'm impressed! : )
Have a great weekend everyone! See ya Sunday when we begin week 4 with sculpting!
This week I'm changing the routine a bit. The regular cardio dvd is great, but not all that exciting. So, this week, I changed off and started using the "Power 90 Fat Burning System", which is an extra video in the set. I love it!!!! It's fun! It's exciting! It's just plan cool! AND! I get to use my medicine ball!
First of all, it's filmed in Hawaii, where the other video is in a plain room with a blue background & two assistants who look bored to death. P90 FBS dvd has a lot of happy people in the background who are really going at it. That's much more inspiring.
Any who, I'm going to stick with that one for cardio for at least another week. Then I'll use it once a week to break up the monotony. : )
So, excellent sweat-to-death workout. Can't wait till tomorrow. I'm going to try the next level up on sculpting just to see how it goes.
Today's bright side - I've lost 1/2" off my waist. : )
Last week was tough, between fatigue & a nasty sinus headache, I really struggled to get my workouts in. If I wasn't so determined not to miss a single day, I would have surrendered during the headache. But I'm proud of me for hanging in there and giving it the best I could. : )
On to today! Increased the dumbbell weights this week. Using my 10lb db's. Pushups are easier. Right knee still giving me fits, but adjusted the lunges today to compensate and it did wonders. Going back to using the bent exercise bike daily, it was the only thing strengthening that knee up.
Right elbow did pretty good today. If I pay more attention to placement & form it will help. Also adding my regular yoga dvd's to the routine a couple times a week and my P90 coach said I can use the other dvd that came with the set for a little mix up with aerobics. Probably using that one tomorrow for the fun of it. : )
All in all, excited to be starting week 3. : )
Workout done and gone! It was great. Kept a good pace so I didn't have to stop. Didn't feel like working out when I first got up. I was sore from the day before and tired. I didn't sleep much last night. Anyway, I'm proud of me for having at it. Can't wait till the end of the 90 days to order P90X. : )
Yesterday I finally signed up with the online program at beachbody. It's pretty cool. I also have a coach who contacted me last nite. That was pretty neat.
Anyway, lots to do today. We're under flood watch and I need to get the ditch cleared so the water doesn't pick up the debris and cause a jam in the old batman tunnel. : )
Until tomorrow - keep hitting play!
Day 1
Today was Day 1 of my Power 90 workout. Today was body sculpting. My weakness is push-ups. I hate them. I liked them in high school when I could do any push-up variation you could ask for, but that was many moons ago. : ) Anyway, I was able to keep up with everything but push-ups & my muscles started acting funny during triceps press, otherwise it was great. : )
On a scale of 1 - 10, I'd give my diet a 4. I wasn't really that bad, I just decided I'd punish myself with a low score because I didn't fully hold to the diet. I kept snacking on dried bananas & dried cherries toward late afternoon. I couldn't figure out why I was so hungry until I remembered I'd taken a b12 pill. That explained everything. Tomorrow, I'll leave out the B12 & I'll score a 10!
Looking forward to day 2 - aerobics. : )
