This past week I actually started following the P90X routine.\u00a0 I enjoyed the sore muscles I remembered from the chest & back routine but I was not prepared for the sore glutes.\u00a0 It felt like I ran a marathon again, but uphill most of the way.\u00a0 Why have I not been paying attention to all those folks who mentioned squats & lunges?\u00a0 (Face it, I know why.\u00a0 Because squats & lunges make me HURT.)\u00a0\u00a0 The only routine I skipped was the yoga on Thursday since we’re missing that particular DVD.\u00a0 I replaced it with a 7000 yard swim.\u00a0 That seems fair, right?<\/p>\n
I’m also becoming a big fan of\u00a0 Zumba.\u00a0 I like how my friend Rachel teaches it, and I’ve learned to position myself where I can see what she’s doing but not myself in the mirrors.\u00a0 I prefer to remain in denial about how off-beat my steps are.<\/p>\n
While most of the routines on the P90X set are somewhat easy to follow, the Kenpo one stumped me worse than my first Zumba class.\u00a0 I can barely pat my head & rub my stomach at the same time and this dude is telling me about where to put my feet, as I twist my hips & throw 4 different punches at an imaginary opponent.\u00a0 I do not have a large mirror in the room to see how my form is, but when it was down to some martial arts style blocking moves, I caught my reflection in the TV screen.\u00a0 Now, in my head I looked like the Karate Kid,<\/em> but what I saw on the screen closer resembled Elane’s dancing on “Seinfeld”.<\/p>\n Of course, regardless of what Tony Horton tells me to do, I still need my cardio fix, so each routine was followed by some hill walking, eliptical or a swim.\u00a0 And a big lunch.<\/p>\n Move along now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past week I actually started following the P90X routine.\u00a0 I enjoyed the sore muscles I remembered from the chest & back routine but I was not prepared for the sore glutes.\u00a0 It felt like I ran a marathon again, but uphill most of the way.\u00a0 Why have I not been paying attention to all […]<\/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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}