Day 48

Kenpo X. Still love this workout. This week felt more like what I enjoy and I was able to work through the break periods. Did take my own breaks to cough, but still worked up a sweat and got some good punches in.

Day 47

Tonight was Legs & Back. It's been a week now since I've been back to working out. My numbers tonight were much better than last week. And I felt pretty good about the workout. I was able to hold the one legged wall squat and the chair squat... though both really sucked tonight. Yesterday's yoga did too many chair squats for my liking; including ones where your legs were crossed and you were balancing on one leg!

Ab Ripper was harder tonight. I went into it hurting from coughing all day and had to take several coughing breaks. I suppose at least my abs were contracting!

Day 46

Yoga day! I decided to mix it up today. Mainly because I didn't want to do 90+ mins of yoga, but I wanted to stick with yoga. One of the other Beachbody products is a One on One series with Tony Horton. It's basically him working out in his personal gym with a camera guy. He makes these every month and you can get them shipped as they're made, or buy them individually. We signed up for this recently and November's workout was yoga... so I decided to do the One on One yoga.

This was a great yoga workout. 63 minutes long... but really hard. Had some new crazy moves and some that I haven't done since I took a yoga class when we used to belong to a gym. It was basically all variations on sun salutations and triangles. My arms were really sore from yesterday's workout, so I wasn't able to do the chaturanga every time, but I did what I could.

My favorite new move was going into plank, lifting a leg, and then doing chaturanga with the one leg up. Oddly I could actually do this. I was also able to do side plank with an elevated leg. There were also some interesting lift-a-leg-here and put-a-knee-there versions of downward dog.

All in all the workout made me feel pretty good about myself. But there were certain balance issues that I'd like to improve on. Will certainly use this again when I want a good yoga workout without spending 90 minutes to do so.

Day 45

Back & Biceps with Ab Ripper X. The strength workouts are much nicer when coughing. Don't have to worry so much about losing my breath. I was really able to push the workout and my numbers were actually pretty in line with the last time I did the workout. Other workouts have seen some decrease in numbers since the whole sick thing.

The best thing is that I completed the entire Ab Ripper. I've done that before but minus the side v-ups. Tonight I actually did all of those! Took me weeks just to figure out how to properly do one, so doing 25 is pretty awesome. I've decided that one of my fitness goals is to have a 6 pack by the time my son turns one year old. That seems like it would be a pretty awesome accomplishment. And I think it should be fairly realistic. I have about 4 months until then. 45 days left of P90X (I'm halfway done today!!). Then 60 days of Insanity.

Plus I think my current cough is like continual ab work throughout the day...

Day 44

Today was to be Plyo X. At the start of that workout it tells you that if you're not up for it you can substitute Cardio X. Due to the lingering cough I decided to go with Cardio X.

It's an interesting workout because it's never actually part of the schedule. So unless you do it on an off day, instead of Plyo, or to double up on workouts it never gets done. I've done it before on off days and as a stand alone. It's kind of a nice intro to P90X because it's really short... only 43 mins! And it includes yoga, kenpo, plyo, and core synergistics.

The yoga part was sad because my push-up muscles are killing me from yesterday, so there wasn't a hope of doing the yoga push up to upward dog part. And in general putting my head below the rest of my body still feels icky on my head.

The kenpo part is nice because it's pretty much my favorite moves from that workout.

The plyo part made me think I made the right choice in not doing the full plyo workout. It was fun, but got me coughing pretty good.

Core synergistics made me realize I should have used my thicker pilates mat. The Dreya roll is harder on a thin mat. As is Superman Banana. Both fun moves, but nicer when the floor isn't so hard.

Anyhow, I worked out and I'm glad I did something. Time for hot cocoa and a movie with my hubby.

Day 43

Today was the evil chest/triceps/shoulders workout. 50+ mins of crazy arm stuff. My arms were shaking so bad by the time I was done. Which I guess is a good thing.

My new challange, in addition to still not feeling 100% healthy, is that I'm now doing P90X solo. My poor hubby has a hernia and will be having it surgically repaired in the near future. So, no one to work out with for the next while. Glad I have the blog and the business to hold me accountable!

So much to be thankful today. A wonderful son. A supportive husband. Friends. Food. One of the fun food things today was that we made an awesome sugar free chocolate peanut butter pie out of Shakeology. A pie that's actually healthy! And delicious. You can check out the recipe here.

Day 42

So, today is rest day. Yay! I know I've only been back on schedule for 3 days. But today's schedule says to rest. As much as I feel like I've been doing less than I'd like my legs have hurt these last two days. Guess I really am back!