Day 18 P90X Yoga X 2/7/12

Day 18 P90X Yoga X 2/7/12
Today is tuesday morning, and I am feeling tired. I snoozed the alarm a bit before dragging myself up out of bed to get to the workout area. I got up, drank my bullnox pre-workout and got my lap top and water and away I went. Today isnt as bad as yesterday, as far as not wanting to get up and go, but I am still not feeling that level of excitement and energy that I was feeling the first week or two. It seem that i have hit a bit of a lull in the workout, and seem to be running into a bit of a mental wall. I am starting to get to that place of "ahhh man, I still have soooo long to go, its only day 18, and ugh, I dont want to go work out" Its the poor me syndrome, I suffer from it sometimes. I want all the results with little to none of the work hahaha. I have done this program enough times, or should I say, i have started this program enough times, to know this when it is happening. I am not going to succumb to it again. I start hearing those thoughts, and I say to myself out loud, "fuck that, I'm going" and it seems to arrest the thoughts, take away there power, and refocus my thougts on just getting to the gym and doing the best that I can. It worked for me today, and it worked for me yesterday, and both times, I feel better having gone, than I would have if I took a day off.

Yoga X - today was the yoga X DVD. Now I have mentioned before that I am not a huge fan of this Yoga DVD. The biggest reason was that it is an hour and a half, and it just takes sooo long. Well, now doing it for the third time that love hate relationship is actually turning more into a love relationship. I really enjoyed doing it today. I could tell I am getting stronger in some of the strength postures, and was able to hold out, through most. During some of the balance/ stretch exercises, I had a really tough time, but did my best. The worst one was the one leg table balanace. Where you bend down, one leg in the air, one on the floor, and then one hand on the floor and twisting up looking at my other hand in teh air. IT KILLED ME. It was stretching out my upper glue, top of my leg and it was burning. A couple of times i had to bring it down, and give it a second and get back to it. that was the hardest part. The Yoga Belly 7 exercises are pretty brutal too, but I did those alright, but definitely have room to improve. Overall I did good, and was happy to have went. now, it being a few hours afterward, I know I got a killer workout because my legs are still wobbly, and I can feel them all stretched and strained, and that is a good feeling.

Another thing to note, is my left shoulder is feeling very tight and sore. This is probably because I went so hard on my arms adn shoulders yesterday, and i am feeling the reprecussions of that. I have mentioned before in the videos, I have bit of a problem when it comes to my shoulders. I have to be much more careful when I am working out my arms and shoulders, so I dont injusre myself. Today, I am happy to know that I wont have any arm or shoulder exercises for several days and will give it time to heal.

So this is it. Day 18 is done. I am fighting to get through that lull, and to just keep at it. Rome was not built in a day. I cannot expect to get in great shape in a day (or 18) either. Especially at 35 years old.