Last week was a couple of new routines and the word that sums it all up was “ouch”.\u00a0 I had finally decided to try out one of the “P90X” routine since a friend had so kindly given me her DVD set.\u00a0 While I am reluctant to adhere to the nutritional program (after all, the chances of peanut butter cookies & nachos on the menu is probably slim), I am keen to see what the workouts will do for me.\u00a0 DVD #1 was the chest\/back routine.\u00a0 Since I don’t have a pull-up bar yet, I used resistance bands thrown around the beam across our ceiling for an anchor.\u00a0 We all have to improvise sometimes!<\/p>\n
I knew I was in trouble when the routine started off with push-ups and the instructor asked each of his groupies how many they were planning to do.\u00a0 No one (including the woman) answered less than twenty.\u00a0 Crap.\u00a0 Well, my number was about 16, with half of those on my knees.\u00a0 By the end of the hour, all <\/em>my push-ups were on my knees.\u00a0 The resistance bands also beat me up a bit and I can only imagine what actual pull-ups would do, assuming I could do more than two.\u00a0 Somehow through all this there is quite a bit of core action going on, so I’m feeling a nice soreness all over, though I still had to follow it up with a brisk 3 miles of treadmill hills.\u00a0 (I know, there is something kind of wrong <\/strong>with me.)<\/p>\n So – that was Monday.\u00a0 Tuesday I returned to the spot I took my first Zumba class to try something else (it’s a Groupon deal for 5 classes).\u00a0 I decided to give the “barre method” workout a try.\u00a0 Of course, after Monday’s chest & back workout, what’s the first thing we do in this class?\u00a0 Push-ups.\u00a0 OUCH.\u00a0 Then a few of those free weight moves that are somewhat deceiving:\u00a0 the kind where you use very light weights but in ways that have your arms shaking within a minute.\u00a0 Let’s just say I’m very glad that when the instructor told me to get a set of weights she steered me away<\/em> from the 10lb ones.\u00a0 The rest of the routine was a nice full-body mix and a lot of core focus.\u00a0 By Tuesday night I could barely lift my arms high enough to wash my hair.<\/p>\n Wednesday I decided to take it easy and headed to the pool for a short swim.\u00a0 Why do I always seem to forget how much your abs are involved in a flip turn?\u00a0 GOOD GOSH OUCH OUCH OUCH!\u00a0 <\/strong>I did manage about 2500 yards, and I have to say that the weightlessness of the swim helped, at least enough so that the barre method class on Thursday didn’t seem as bad.\u00a0 I’ll give it a couple more of those (use up the Groupon) and perhaps then I might be in slightly better shape to take on the P90X monster again.\u00a0 Just don’t take away my cookies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week was a couple of new routines and the word that sums it all up was “ouch”.\u00a0 I had finally decided to try out one of the “P90X” routine since a friend had so kindly given me her DVD set.\u00a0 While I am reluctant to adhere to the nutritional program (after all, the chances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}