P90X Check in TGIF!

[andtckrtoo]

Hey all!

Today is my rest day, so I slept in, and enjoyed it. Tummy isn't too happy today, but it's livable, so I'm okay. I'm sooo happy it's Friday! How are y'all doing?

 

[L Sass]

Hi Christine. Happy rest day. Like yesterday I am still feeling out of sorts today - not under the weather or anything, just a bit off. I wonder if that's my body's way of saying "I want a rest day." So I'm going to play it by ear. The monsters and I have been doing a lot of indoor playing and cleaning since it's cold and rainy here today. But when they go down for a rest, I'm thinking of joining them. We'll see, Enjoy whatever you conquer today ladies!

Lorrie

 

[kathryn]

Yesterday was "legs" day (thought partially "legs and back" because I'm doing a chin-up challenge and attempt them every other day, at least on my other weight days). As planned, I did the first part of PLB plus the stability ball segment of Mindy's All About Legs. I'd planned to do abs a well, but, in the spirit of "Ab Ripper" becomiing "Ab Skipper," I left them out because I'd done enough! I'll get to them today.

I really liked Mindy's workout as an add-on. I really felt it in my glutes when we did a series of 1-legged squats (first set with one leg in front of body on ball, then without touching down, move to second set position with leg out to side---I actually felt my glutes pumping up on that one!---then leg out to back, then staying in the crouched position with the back leg on ball, doing a series of 'in-out' moves. YEOW! I woke up this morning feeling my glutes! This is a VERY good thing (and something that I never got from P90X "Legs and Back."

Today is kickboxing, but I haven't figured out which wokrout to do quite yet. Won't be Kenpo X.

 

[andtckrtoo]

That's funny Kathryn - L&B killed my glutes the first time - but GS Legs does nothing. Oh well...

 

[jjswimmom]

TGIF P90Xers!! Yoga for me tonight. Tom. is Core Syn. & this one looks tough! I can't wait! Hope everyone has great w/outs planned this wkend!

Christine - Glad to hear you took a rest day! Sorry your stomach is not quite right...feeling better?

Lorrie - Sounds like you needed a rest day too! Our bodies are telling us something!

Kathryn - Sounds like a great leg w/out. I was trying to imagine those squats with the ball out in front - what size ball do you use? Can you squat down very far? Sounds tough! What kickboxing did you do today?

Carole - Thank you for the encouragement on the pullups/chinups! I need it!

Happy Xing and Eat Clean@

 

[kathryn]

>Kathryn - Sounds like a great leg w/out. I was trying to
>imagine those squats with the ball out in front - what size
>ball do you use? Can you squat down very far? Sounds tough!
>What kickboxing did you do today?

It's a regular 55 cm. stability ball. I can go to almost parallel.

Friday's kickboxing ended up being a boxing workout (with jump rope and step drill intervals) called "1, 2 punch." It's a pretty good workout,, with some glitches (one move is only done on one side, whereas all the others are done on both sides). It has a fabulous stretch at the end.

Today will be stretch/rest day. I might just do Stretch X (it has those good shoulder and wrist stretches)...or something else!