Monday, April 23, 2012

Becoming Better

I definitely was NOT sedentary this weekend!  Eeesh! 

Saturday was my ResoLOSEtion group at the gym.  Wow.  This was the first session I have been to this round.  (I missed the first one while I was up in Wisconsin.)  We are doing the Insanity:Asylum workouts.  Wheeeee!  The format is the same in that it is sets of movements done for a specific amount of time each. So: five movements, and you do each one for thirty seconds.   It is different in that this time there are resistance bands or weights incorporated into the workouts.  It is intense - you SWEAT doing this workout even though we are not necessarily doing as much "cardio" moves.   Whew!   

Here is what I am noticing about myself in these workouts:

1. I've so missed doing things with a group of people-this group of people in particular.  They spur me on to continue pushing myself. 

2. While I am definitely not what I would call "in shape", I am in better shape than when I started in February.  And I am more willing to try out a move than I was then.  I even gave "Mountain Climbers" a try this weekend and I would have NOT done that when I started.   I can't do them great but I did them the best I could. 

3. My shoulders and arms are still pretty okay strength wise even though I haven't danced in forever.    I'm not like Ms. Universe or anything but I'm not rubber-band-arms-girl either.  :) 


Sunday was the day STAG moved all of his big stuff into my - OUR - house.  I packed boxes, carried them, moved them around etc.  It was a day of hard work and a lot of stairs. By the end of the day, all I wanted was a shower to get the dust off and to go to bed.   And that's what we did!

Neither of these days included the P90X workouts.  Especially on Saturday, I felt like I got a good workout in.  Tonight I am going to do it though.  STAG will be at class and I will be on my own.  But I feel like if I get in the workout while dinner is cooking I will feel good and can just hang out and do some house stuff tonight.   Slowly, I'm trying to make this a part of my everyday life...



"You can always become better."
-Tiger Woods

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