P90xTF Day 1 - Change of Plans

Well, Freddie's still hurting from his shin splints, but he's actually dying to workout, so I'm not going to knock that and we found an alternative. We decided to do P90X since its weight training it shouldn't hurt his shins. We went through the cardio though, and there were no low impact modifications, so I decided that it would be better, at least until he feels better, to do Turbo Fire and he can follow the low impact version and not do any of the jumping. I think that will work with his shins, we'll see after today.

Yesterday we did Chest Back & Arms and Ab Ripper X. It was pretty intense and we're both sore today! We went ahead and bought some bands from Amazon that seem to work pretty well, but we're considering buying a cheep pullup bar from wallgreens and trying to hang it from my closet door to add since there are so many pull ups. We used the bands from the door yesterday and it worked alright, though I can tell its not as hard as a pullup.

I'm glad to be back at working out, I really missed not working out for the last two weeks, but after tomorrow, my school stuff should settle down and I'll be able to workout more and hopefully Freddie will feel better too :) I'm actually excited to try weight training more, I'm hoping trying something different will give me better results.

Insanity Day 9 - Shin Splints

Today I was sluggish. I wasn't feeling 100% until later in the evening, so I worked out around 9 pm. We did Pure Cardio which wasn't so bad, except that Freddie got shin splints! I think we need to get him some new shoes. If he doesn't buy some in the next day or so, I may buy it for him. I think shoes are really important and I don't want to see him hurt. I really didn't like seeing him in pain and not being able to do anything. He's limping around and looking awfully pathetic. I doubt he'll be able to workout tomorrow which is a bummer since he's been doing so well with it. We'll have to see how he feels tomorrow. I hope its much better. I worry about him. :(

Insanity Day 8 - Going out

I should have posted this yesterday, but I forgot to, so here it is :) last night was a really late workout around 8:30 pm and then I went out dancing and drinking for a bit. It was a good night.

Insanity Day 7 - Carpet Beetles

I know I'm posting this a day late, but I thought it would be better to have this in a separate post than to jam all today's and yesterday's together. This is my weekly recap. I unfortunately fell short in a couple of places. I didn't lose a pound, but there may be two reasons for that. One: my body may still be retaining water from being sore, and two, which is much more likely, I need to really reign my diet in. I'm having a hard time with the eating out and not eating junk or over eating. Its amazing how many different problems are a part of that one. Its getting harder with pms and also the amount of stress from having both my reels due at the same time. Its definitely something I'm going to work on. One thing I'm proud of, though, is that I did push play and go as hard as I can for a whole week.

Yesterday wasn't much of a rest day. I had classes all day and then I found out my apartment had carpet beetles and had to do an impromptu entire cleaning of my apartment. I didn't get done until after 1 in the morning with it all, since we had to clean the carpets and move things around to clean under them. I'm pretty exhausted now, even after sleeping eight hours or so. I'm hoping to bounce back soon. I have lots of work to do today that I need to be awake for.

It'll be a later workout today, Freddie has his speed painting workshop, so we may workout closer to 6 or 7.

Insanity Day 6 - Sweaty Pictures

Today was the last day of working out for the week! I'm so proud of Freddie for having made it this far - I actually got him to take some pictures with me after the workout today! Though I couldn't convince him to smile . . . he was a little cranky and tired. We did Plyometric Cardio Circuit and while it was super hard and we were both low on steam, we pulled through it! Won't lie, though, we're both looking forward to the rest day!

Yesterday I also promised myself to not go off the diet and eat clean, I wrote everything down and totally did it! I even rewarded myself with a little treat of popcorn last night since it was in my calorie limits and still considered decently clean since I use my air popper and healthy butter. Below is my food list.

Turbo Fire Tank Top

Today my Turbo Fire tank top came in the mail. It was pretty exciting! The only thing is that it's too big . . . I thought it would be too small, but nope. Who would have thought that I was a small? Especially for workout clothes. I'm going to try to shrink it in the dryer, I used a hair tie to pull it back on the pictures.

Insanity Day 5 - Keeping Goals

Oh. My. God. Pure Cardio was the hardest workout yet! I ran out of steam in some parts and just could not physically get myself off the ground. It was not for lack of mental will-power.

Freddie did it again with me, and he was in the same boat! He's getting a lot better, and I think that he's even starting to like it! While he curses Shaun T through the workout, he doesn't quit and he hasn't been complaining about having to do it - in fact - this morning I offered to do it without him and he was there! I think he's starting to like it! I'm going to try really hard to keep him around at least until the second week so he can see how much he's improved in his fit test. We didn't take measurements or weigh him, but I think that's okay, because I think he'll notice how he feels different more than anything and he's not concerned about losing weight. Either way, I'm super proud of him! And I really like working out with him!

Today I'm going to stick to that goal I wrote last night. Today I'm going to eat 95% clean. I can do this, and I will do this. I have to promise myself these things because the only person who's going to be hurt and disappointed if I don't do it is me. And after doing all these things for so long, I know I can do it, and I'm not going to let myself down. I feel good to be able to say these things and know that I CAN do it. Right now, I"m starting to day off right with a very clean, raw protein, amazing grass, strawberry and almond milk smoothie after the work out. MMMMmmmm.