Thursday, February 10, 2011

so unproductive today...

  • I have been so unproductive today, ugh. I got up and got dressed to workout and never did. I have worked out every other day this week and have already passed my goal of burning 3500 calories this week and I have not eaten bad today so I don't feel terrible about not working out. I just needed to do p90x legs today so I will just have to do it tomorrow instead.

    Yesterday, I had a great day and burned 1200 calories doing a spinning class and then piyo (pilates/yoga). I did have my body fat checked by Shaun at the gym yesterday and even though I am down 5 lbs, I'm not feeling wonderful about my body fat. I'm at 28% which is in the normal range of most people but last August when I had it checked last, I was at 24% but Shaun said that it can vary as much as 3% per person that checks it so it could have been wrong. I weighed more back then but that was also when I was training for the triathlon I did last summer and swimming in the morning so I was working out alot more. I definitely would like to get back to at least 24%, possibly lower if I can!

    I wanted to post the p90x workout that I did on Tuesday and last Saturday, this was a different video than I had done before, it was chest, shoulders and triceps and didn't require a pull up bar so I liked that part of it. Though, there are a TON of push ups in this video. I just have to tell you that this is an amazing workout and if you're looking for a workout that you can do at home, this is a great one to do. So here we go... (I will admit than when I did this video, I didn't do as many push ups as were in the video because I did yoga that day and did alot of push ups that day and the day before).


    I'm sure that most of these exercises can be googled if you're not sure what they are. Also, most of these you do as many as you can with the heaviest weight you can.

  • First is 3 in 1 slow motion push ups - this is wide, middle and chataranga
    in and out shoulder flys (this is going out in front and then out to the side) - 16 with 10 lbs
  • chair dips - 30ish
  • plange push ups - I did 25 - you can google dive bomber push ups, basically the same thing.
  • pike press - I did 25. This is basically a downward dog and you do pushups with your head almost touching the floor.
  • side tri rise - lay on your side, cross the arm that is laying against the floor across your chest and push up with the other arm.
  • floor flys- you can use a paper plate under one hand, go out wide then switch hands with a push up in between.
  • scare crows - hang your arms down like a scare crow and lift just your forearms. I did 10 with 10 lbs.
  • overhead tri- I did 20 with 10lbs.
  • 2 speed twitch push ups - 12
  • y press - 10 lbs/15 reps.
  • lying tricep extension - 20 with a 10 lb weight
  • side to side push ups - 8ish?
  • pour flys - 12 w a 5 lb weight. A lot of these exercises are probably what you imagine them to be but I didn't write down many descriptions and I don't remember exactly. Like I said, you can probably google them.
  • side leaning tri's (leaning on a chair) - 12 with 10 lbs.
  • 1 arm push ups - okay, I did 5 on each arm but what you have to do is move your knees out WIDE and my arm barely moved but watching the girl in the video, she barely moves either! :)
  • weighted circles - 2 sets of 10 with 5 lbs, forward and back
  • throw the bomb - like a tri extension did 10 with a 10 lb weight and 15 with 5 lbs
  • clap or plyo push ups - I didn't even do these!
  • slow mo throw - 8 with a 10 lb weight
  • front to back tricep extension - 15 with 10 lbs
  • 1 arm balance push ups - ha, yeah right!
  • fly-row-press - 15 with a 10 lb weight
  • dumbell cross body blows (you lay on the floor and since this is the last exercise, you do as many as you can) I did about 50 with 10 lbs.

So, that's all for today other than my training log...

Week 1 - 4,200 calories burned

Week 2 - 3,500 calories burned (sick with the flu)

Week 3 - 4,150 calories burned

Week 4 - 3,950 calories burned (still 2 workout days left this week)

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