Day 15, 16, 17...

So day 15 - half way through phase I!! Shoulders and arms, followed by abs. I have done these consecutively to try and make up for the lack of momentum last week and to get my mind back in the right place. I did S&A full out, didn't remove weights from the dumbbells and kicked butt. I felt good and sore the next day (16) for Yoga X (at midnight, but whatever) and it felt good. All of the balancing postures got tricky but I tried them all! I can feel that each workout helps the other. Plyo helps in yoga, Chest and Back is essential for yoga. It is the toughest part of the program (spare the basics like push-ups and stupid, stupid pull-ups). Reps, schmeps. Yoga is for cool people.

Day 17 - Legs and Back. Back to the pull-up bar. I hate that thing. It helped motivate me when I noticed I could do a few more and then a few more, but the different hand positions and the constant movement is a pain. Physically - it's a pain. I got 60% of this one and will do abs later tonight or tomorrow morning. Got a program, almost got the routine. 73 more days.

Day 14 - Plyometrics

Did the Ab Ripper X routine two nights ago and then got the nerve to try Plyo again. Jesus. This may be the hardest workout in the world. Jumping, jumping, jumping. Over and over. I got further through, almost to the last series of exercises, before I started stretching and cooling down. I wouldn't have gotten that far if Delbert wasn't there doing the same thing. If he would have said stop at any time I wouldn't have argued. That's my problem. Quit too easy. Now on to the beach because it's a brothers-Chumley day off.

This is actually day 21 of the program but I am only counting days that I actually worked out since day one.

Day 12 - Kenpo (late again), Day 13

I have not been keeping up on the workouts as well as I should. It's hard. I knew that, I told myself before hand that I wasn't going to quit and I'm not, but damn. Yoga was a good surprise and I felt good "finishing" it, I knew Kenpo was easy enough because I had finished it the week before but I felt this one a lot more. Getting the motions, the sequences, and the muscle control down and it starts to feel like I could actually kick some one's ass should I need to uppercut them.

Usually Kenpo is followed with a day of stretching or rest but I definitely didn't earn that this week so I went straight to the next weeks workouts, Chest and Back. So I find the set-up easier, the initial completion easy but when I get to failure I am d-o-n-e. It is a fast paced workout that doesn't leave a lot of time for you to slow down, which I know is the point, so I keep moving and then I feel like I'm going to die. Still trying to figure out where my breaking point actually is and stopping before I get there. Abs come today too but, like I said last time, maybe after work.

Day 11 - Yoga (two days late)

The last two days I've been in a funk and had no desire to workout. I'm snapping out of it. I had that great workout Thursday and when I realized that I forgot to do Abs I felt a much lesser sense of achievement after the fact. Last week Yoga was a "quitters disc" and that didn't help motivate me, although it should have! I got up, ate a little bit and waited for the motivation to hit. It hits.

I press play and here we go again. T-Horton tells you at the beginning that this is no resting day and that you will be twisted and challenged. When you see that the timer starts counting down from and hour and a half (the longest running disc so far) I can't imagine doing any more vinyasas after forty minutes. There is variation but you hit the same rotation and I was about to lose it and yell at the TV that it is ridiculous to do this over and over and over again and then...it's over. It's over. The title "Last Vinyasa" pops up with 46 minutes left and I think, "This man is an ass hole that has created a harder variation of this damn vinyasa series that will be the last one I will be able to do, maybe because this is where I would go crazy", but it was in fact the last one of the workout and then the last 45 minutes are balancing poses. I quit before this last week thinking, NO, no, no, I can't keep going. He knew that! Granted I am not near Crane many of the other crazy balancing poses but it wasn't a vinyasa and that was great.

I quit too easily. I'm learning that a little more and more.

Day 10 - Shoulders and Arms

Finished the whole thing! Every exercise plus the "bonus" exercises and I feel it. Compared to last week where I didn't even finish, I lifted more weight this week and paced myself through the whole workout. We'll save Abs for after work. On another note, I don't feel anything in my legs from yesterday which leads me to believe that I quit too early thinking I was going to be borderline-immobile like I was last time. Here's to week three and getting it all done!!

Day 9 - Plyo...duh, duh, duuuuhh

I really didn't want to do this today, but I came out of it around 10:00 p.m. and got it done. Well, mostly done. 2/3 done. I did much better than last week and stretched a bunch before hand and after. We'll see what difference that makes tomorrow.

Day 7 - Beach, Day 8 - Chest & Back, Abs

Day 7, a well earned day of rest which was spent at Shelter Cove, watching the prehistoric, albatross-size pelicans, sea gulls, and sea lions explore the still, quiet surf for food. Those stupid pelicans must not have known, or even learned after the fact, that the water is about as deep as their beaks and when they dive-bombed the fish/crabs they hit bottom and had their wings and feet flailing above the water and a beak in the sand. The sea lions watched all of this and very politely, I thought, refrained from laughing at the large, gangly birds flopping around upside down.

Day 8 starts the whole process over. Here we are, the beginning of week two and Del and I are about hooked. The day revolves around when we press play - all things come after. Got to use my new dumbbells in the workout today. Felt the burn. The dreaded Plyometrics is tomorrow. I will remember to stretch plenty this time.