Day 6

Well sorry, we didn't get around to blogging yesterday. We had a rather eventful day, we went to the gym but the childcare area is currently under construction so they are having childcare over in the basketball court. On Monday, Wes loved it, Tuesday, not so much but he tolerated it. Yesterday, he had a complete meltdown, I left him there with the wonderful manager and he cried. I went upstairs to my class to find that it wasn't the usual instructor so I went back down and talked to someone for a few minutes and then went to check on Wes (because I was still hoping to make it to a spinning class after that) but he was still crying so we left and came home.

This was difficult since we live pretty far (20-30 minutes) from my gym but I came home and got on the elliptical for about 30 minutes. We were then going to meet some friends at this play place called Recreation Unlimited but Wes didn't seem like he was feeling great, he just kept laying around and hasn't really been eating much lately. So I did the p90x abs after this. The video is only 15 minutes but is VERY hard. I have still only made it thru about half the video. I'm sure that if I pushed myself, I could do it but since I thought we were going to meet friends, I stopped it. We got ready to leave but then I couldn't decide if Wes would want to go or not, I kept changing my mind. We decided to stay home.

Then, my friend Jasmine who I haven't seen in a long time called and said she was going so we decided to go anyway. Wes ended up having a great time, they have 4 Thomas train tables, a huge Thomas store, which was thankfully behind closed doors or we would have never been able to leave and everything would have been pulled off the shelves. They also have a basketball court, about 15 swing/playsets INSIDE, some play houses and 3 trampolines. As I said, we had a blast, it's close to home and so cheap that we will definitely be heading back there again soon and are planning another playdate next week!

So anyway, back to my challenge, I burned 375 calories doing the abs video and elliptical which puts me at 2875 out of 3500.

Now on to today, we knew we were staying home today because Wes had his annual speech evaluation and since Wes had such a meltdown at the gym, I didn't want to risk taking him back. I am hoping they are back to the childcare area tomorrow so we can go back.

Wes did really well with his speech evaluation. He knows or says at least 80 words, probably more than that. He did really well with all of the other things that they asked of him so we just have to wait for them to grade him to find out if he's still eligible for speech therapy. It's provided thru the state so it's very inexpensive which is why we have to be eligible. I'm hoping he is still going to get it because I just think it's nice to have someone else here once a week to work on things with him. He doesn't listen to me as I'm sure you moms know! :)

So today would normally have been a day off from working out but since I'm doing this challenge and trying to get more weights in, I decided to do the p90x legs and back. As I said the other day, this can be as hard or easy as you want it to be depending upon the weights you decide to use. They actually don't even use many weights in this video and I didn't either. I didn't have a pull up bar yet but tried to do some of the exercises with a band as one of the girls in the video did. I would think this video would be VERY hard if you use a pull up bar.

So once again, here is what the video consisted of...

• 25 balancing lunges (one leg on a chair)
• 25 calf raise squats
• 25 reverse grip chin-ups (if you're using a pull up bar, it would just be as many as you can do)
• 25 super skaters (each leg) - This is where you stand up and then lunge back with one leg as if you were skating but your other leg never touches the ground.
• wall squats for a minute and a half, you get lower ever 30 seconds - VERY HARD :)
• 25 wide front pull ups
• 15 (each leg) step back lunges with a 10 lb weight
• 24 alternate side lunges with a 10 lb weight
• 20 close grip overhand pullups
• single leg wall squats for a minute, change leg every 10 seconds - I was about ready to fall on the floor by the end of this.
• 25 (each leg) dead lift squats (basically a dead lift on one leg)
• 20 switch grip pull ups
• 25 3 way lunges (side, 45 degree and front with a high kick after each one)
• 20 sneaky lunges reverse grip chin ups (I stopped keeping track of how many I was doing so just do as many as you can)
• chair salutations - hold for 30 seconds, repeat!
• 20 (each leg) toe roll isolated lunge
• wide grip pull up
• 20 groucho walks
• calf raises (regular, pigeon toed and out) do 12 slow and then 12 fast of each
• close grip pull ups
• 80/20 seiber speed squats (where one toe is barely touching the floor)... I believe they did about 10 and then did about 10 jumping squats and repeated
• switch grip pull ups

The End!

After this, I went out and shoveled snow very speedy like. Unfortunately, as I sit here and type this, my driveway is covered again so I might have to do it again but I really just did this for a quick additional back workout and it's still snowing so I'm not going out again yet!

So I burned 400 calories doing the P90x legs and back and then I burned 175 calories shoveling (I didn't keep track of the time but was probably around 30 minutes). Sooooo, I'm at 3450 of my 3500 calorie goal for the week! YAY ME! If I do get to to go the gym tomorrow, the class I do is a high calorie burner and I am hoping to do some yoga also!