Day 19

Excellent workout today. Small improvements across the board, but 1245 calories burned. Started using the bands for second pullup set. Doing 6 chair pullups with a lot of leg help and then 20-30 bands for the second set. Legs not liking me though. Tomorrow will be rough again after Kenpo. Then I get to do week 4 instead so no rest yet until vacation week. With any luck I might be down two lbs this week. Depends on how the weekend goes of course. Maybe Monday morning is a bad day for weekly weigh ins. :)

Day 18

Did strength portion of Yoga this AM, doing balance tonight. Then tomorrow starts the awful leg thrashing again.... Still can't do a lot of the twists my gut gets in the way. Missed most of the routine right before the warrior3/half moon twist stuff. I did those ones though. Those are wicked tough. Learned that those are one exercise where it pays to keep the leg straight. 2x as hard if there is a bend since then its all on one of your quads to keep standing up.

Day 17

Another round of Shoulders&Arms. Had a morning meeting so was an evening workout. Somehow I reset my HRM and so I did this great workout and busted ass and then I see I burned 588 calories with this + AbRipperX. Normally this is a 900+ calorie burn. Then I realized the error and saw that it had me do the workout at default which is like 145 lbs or something. Ooops. Oh, well. Made a note and moved on.

Some increases and some ill-advised ones where I ended up dropping back for the second set. Small improvements in AbRipper. I completed leg climbs, I actually found that getting the leg straight before I start raising it I can keep it straight and do a single high on the calf grab and then get fingertip to touch, or within a half inch when I don't quite get there. 300 pnt workout though. Still doing full body crunches in place of v up rollups.

I am thinking of adding a score or something that will take my rep/wght data and then assign a score to the workout. To track overall improvement. Would be tricky though since it would overwieght the high wght exercises like curls over things like in n out tricep extensions which use muck lower weights. Have to figure out how to factor in the weight part as a small multiplier on the reps. Maybe rep * 1.0x where x - weight amount and then just use 1 for anything with no weight.

Day 16

Cardio today. Dreya rolls still frustrate me to no end. Its gonna be a while on those. Came very close to making it all the way through power yoga portion. I did all the iterations, but had to rush through the transitions to keep up at the end.

Gonna swap week 5 and 4 for vacation and do recovery week on vacation. Although I will be mixing in two insanity workouts it will really be at the end of week 4 that I do those so I will still have the whole week of recovery schedule.

Day 15

Start of week 3.  Improvement over last week.  I made a conscious decision to try and eliminate Knee pushups from everything I can even if it means I only get 6 or 8 reps.  The sphynx today was the one tough one.  That is a DAMN hard pushup without knees.  Ran out of gas bigtime near the end today.  I just layed there during Dreya rolls.  Did the bonus round though, the break helped me.  Was pressed for time so I think I didn't wait long enough after I ate to start.  Day 16&17 should be interesting.  Have to workout super early since I have meetings and then health thing on wednesday that I have to be done working out 3 hours prior to.  Also cannot eat after 10pm the night before so that should be fun.  I am thinking about working out at night due to the food thing.

I think I will be ok for the vacation thing.  One of the friends I am visiting is doing Insanity currently.  So I may just have take yoga/core/cardio supplies with me and then do his insanity workouts with him.  I will probably take bands too and then just do what I can.  Maybe do legs and back on the road since I already know those moves and do the new one when I get back.

Day 14

Rest day.  Thought about doing stretch but only for about 3 seconds.

Day 13

KenpoX went well today.  Still suck at back kicks, really slows me down and can't keep up on anything that includes back kicks.  Did X jumps in all the "breaks" except the last one.  Legs wasted again though.  This combo runs the entire first two phases.  I hope I get more accustomed to it.  Otherwise it's a couple months of weekends with wasted legs.