Thanks to the uber-switched up final weeks of P90X, today was my LAST Chest and Back EVER!!!!!! I totes brought it, so very hard. Check out these stats, man (and woman):
Day 1:
Total Pushups: 15 real, 124 knees
Total Pullups (assisted): 54
Weight used for back exercises: 10 lbs.
Day 66 (today):
Total Pushups: 98 real, 81 knees
Total Pullups (assisted): 77
Weight used for back exercises: 25 lbs.
In a nutshell....THIS PROGRAM WORKS! I am so excited with my body...and also very excited I never have to do Chest and Back again, lol.
Today is bittersweet in a much more serious way, too.......
Today is the last day ever that Jordan will be four. At 11 tomorrow morning, my little girl will be five. FIVE!!! Five is old to mommies. She read her very first sentance yesterday, too ("Dad fed the cat", for all who are interested). Went to buy her birthday gifts last night and got choked up that she's almost in the "big girl" shoes...she's already in "big girl" clothes...I sure do love her.
Jax peeps. April 8-13 I'll be in town with the fam. April 9th is Eric's birthday, but other than that, nothing huge planned. If you wanna hang, holler.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Yoga 90's style
Howdy.
So I've been lost on the internet most of the day (the why will be below), and then I snuck in some exercise. However, I have to be at work in less than an hour and a half and I haven't even showered yet. Needless to say, i'm short on time, but really want to get this blog in!
I'm 9 weeks into P90X. I've looked at some people's 60 day results (mine will be up Saturday), and I'm kinda irritated with my body. I see no difference between 30 days and now...the scale says the same thing even though the clothes are fitting better. I know I'm at a plateau and am about to bust through into gloriousness....but I'm not there now. I decided that it was time to not just confuse my muscles (the "secret ingrediant" of P90X), but it was time to confuse my brain.
I've done the YogaX dvd 12 times in the last 8 weeks. I know it like the back of my hand. I did it blindfolded last week (awesome experience!), and today I decided to self-instruct my yoga. I've got my breathing mastered to where I knew I wouldn't be cutting positions short or holding them too long...I was confident. And I blew myself away! I was sinking deeper in the warrior poses than I ever have...and I have a near perfect Bird Of Paradise (not in yogax, I added this one myself because I think it's the most awesome pose ever)...and the MUSIC I was listening to is what really got me there! I tuned in to a zen/ambient/slow trance Pandora station, and it led me to this album. Totally, TOTALLY awesome music. I was so in the zone it was crazy. Time flew by and I was sweating more than I ever have. HIGHLY reccomend this record for anyone who is into self-instructed yoga or perhaps teaches a class themselves.
And now I'm off to the races. Time to get ready for work. But check out that music, dude. Love it.
Also. If you have time, please educate yourself by watching one or all of the following documentaries. My world has been shaken.
**Food Matters
**The Future of Food (Best documentary I've ever seen. Ever)
**The Business of Making Babies (if we ever have any more kids, it will be at home with a midwife. This is coming from the chick who ran to the hospital with both of my kids, begging for an epidural asap. Changed woman, I am!)
So I've been lost on the internet most of the day (the why will be below), and then I snuck in some exercise. However, I have to be at work in less than an hour and a half and I haven't even showered yet. Needless to say, i'm short on time, but really want to get this blog in!
I'm 9 weeks into P90X. I've looked at some people's 60 day results (mine will be up Saturday), and I'm kinda irritated with my body. I see no difference between 30 days and now...the scale says the same thing even though the clothes are fitting better. I know I'm at a plateau and am about to bust through into gloriousness....but I'm not there now. I decided that it was time to not just confuse my muscles (the "secret ingrediant" of P90X), but it was time to confuse my brain.
I've done the YogaX dvd 12 times in the last 8 weeks. I know it like the back of my hand. I did it blindfolded last week (awesome experience!), and today I decided to self-instruct my yoga. I've got my breathing mastered to where I knew I wouldn't be cutting positions short or holding them too long...I was confident. And I blew myself away! I was sinking deeper in the warrior poses than I ever have...and I have a near perfect Bird Of Paradise (not in yogax, I added this one myself because I think it's the most awesome pose ever)...and the MUSIC I was listening to is what really got me there! I tuned in to a zen/ambient/slow trance Pandora station, and it led me to this album. Totally, TOTALLY awesome music. I was so in the zone it was crazy. Time flew by and I was sweating more than I ever have. HIGHLY reccomend this record for anyone who is into self-instructed yoga or perhaps teaches a class themselves.
And now I'm off to the races. Time to get ready for work. But check out that music, dude. Love it.
Also. If you have time, please educate yourself by watching one or all of the following documentaries. My world has been shaken.
**Food Matters
**The Future of Food (Best documentary I've ever seen. Ever)
**The Business of Making Babies (if we ever have any more kids, it will be at home with a midwife. This is coming from the chick who ran to the hospital with both of my kids, begging for an epidural asap. Changed woman, I am!)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Hello, blog.
A friend of mine called and left me a message telling me to update my blog. I love my friends.
Hello bloggy world. Hope you are as well if not better than the last time we met.
Some things I've learned since we last conversed:
* I am a documentary junkie. As a stay at home mom, finding an hour a day (sometimes during my workout) to educate myself has been very refreshing! At the same time, I will now forever boycott Walmart, am trying to make 50% of my diet raw, organic food, have changed my stance on steroids and gay marriage, and feel very manipulated by our government, lol.
* Some people like to run in silence. Not me. Some people like to run very fast. I'm not there yet. Some people like to run to slow, thought provoking music so as not to mess with their pace/stride. Not I. Me? I like a pace of about 6 miles an hour, and a playlist of nothing but Britney Spears guilty pleasure songs. Now that I've realized and accepted this, I am having a BLAST running a few times a week.
* P90X is incredible, and has certainly changed my life. However, working for Beachbody is what has really motivated me to get healthy and stay fit. This company is so inspirational, always growing and progressing, and they want their people to succeed. I pretty much love my side job. I am excited that in a matter of months, it will be my only job. I am hopeful and encouraged that within the next few years, it will be the only thing Eric and I have to do for financial stability.
* I really. really. REALLY. miss the beach. Lots. Am SO EXCITED for my trip to Florida in a month!!!!!!!
* With all the changes I've made in my life since 2011 started, I am kind of amazed that people feel I'm making bad decisions. Honestly. If because I've quit smoking, dropped cable, go to church, get up at 5:30, homeschool my daughter, some of my friendships don't receive the same dedication they used to, I am sorry. But I'm sorry that you're feeling hurt, not that I've made these choices. The strange thing is, it's people I wouldn't consider Best Friends...and at the same time, people I haven't spoken to in 10-15 years are reaching out and reconciling! God sure does move in some crazy ways.
60 day P90X pictures coming atcha on Saturday!
Today is my three year anniversary with my super awesome sweetie. Love to love him. Lots.
Hello bloggy world. Hope you are as well if not better than the last time we met.
Some things I've learned since we last conversed:
* I am a documentary junkie. As a stay at home mom, finding an hour a day (sometimes during my workout) to educate myself has been very refreshing! At the same time, I will now forever boycott Walmart, am trying to make 50% of my diet raw, organic food, have changed my stance on steroids and gay marriage, and feel very manipulated by our government, lol.
* Some people like to run in silence. Not me. Some people like to run very fast. I'm not there yet. Some people like to run to slow, thought provoking music so as not to mess with their pace/stride. Not I. Me? I like a pace of about 6 miles an hour, and a playlist of nothing but Britney Spears guilty pleasure songs. Now that I've realized and accepted this, I am having a BLAST running a few times a week.
* P90X is incredible, and has certainly changed my life. However, working for Beachbody is what has really motivated me to get healthy and stay fit. This company is so inspirational, always growing and progressing, and they want their people to succeed. I pretty much love my side job. I am excited that in a matter of months, it will be my only job. I am hopeful and encouraged that within the next few years, it will be the only thing Eric and I have to do for financial stability.
* I really. really. REALLY. miss the beach. Lots. Am SO EXCITED for my trip to Florida in a month!!!!!!!
* With all the changes I've made in my life since 2011 started, I am kind of amazed that people feel I'm making bad decisions. Honestly. If because I've quit smoking, dropped cable, go to church, get up at 5:30, homeschool my daughter, some of my friendships don't receive the same dedication they used to, I am sorry. But I'm sorry that you're feeling hurt, not that I've made these choices. The strange thing is, it's people I wouldn't consider Best Friends...and at the same time, people I haven't spoken to in 10-15 years are reaching out and reconciling! God sure does move in some crazy ways.
60 day P90X pictures coming atcha on Saturday!
Today is my three year anniversary with my super awesome sweetie. Love to love him. Lots.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Day 6: A Picture of Your Most Treasured Item
So, I tried being all fancy and awesome photoggrapher-y, but I am NOT a photographer, nor do I have a camera capable of capturing what I wanted to capture. So I ripped this one from google images. :)
Also, dear Blogger: Why did you change the way you insert pictures? DNL. Love, Heather
NM. It's my fault. I had clicked on the Edit HTML button. I apologize, Blogger.
Have a splendid Thursday!
Also, dear Blogger: Why did you change the way you insert pictures? DNL. Love, Heather
NM. It's my fault. I had clicked on the Edit HTML button. I apologize, Blogger.
Have a splendid Thursday!
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Day 6: A Picture of a Person You Would Love to Trade Places with for a Day
It's no one famous or rich or superwise....it's my little girl. To be 5 years old again and have the knowledge I do now...dude, I would have the best day EVER. I'd okay all day and take a nap and play in the bathtub....I love watching her watch the world...I want to have her passion and zest. She is such a precious inspiration.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Day 5: A Picture of Your Favorite Memory
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! I should have read into this 30 day picture challenge a little better, because...um....ONE favorite memory? I'm married and have two kids, there's three favorites right off the bat! If I could only pick ONE, and I guess that's all I'm allowed, it would be this:
This was the day Eric and I were married, after painting the town, back in our hotel for the evening. That moment of realization that, "I am going to spend the rest of my life with you"....yeah. Best moment ever.
I've got a Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake in the oven for Eric and the peeps in his office (they got brownies last week, we love to spoil them), and they smell amazing! But rather than dig into THOSE, I'm going to knock out sme cardio...then maybe I won't feel too bad when I drink some coffee later.
After 6 weeks of not smoking, this weekend I had two glasses of wine and three cups of coffee and survived! Didn't even want the cigarette! And on Sunday night, a bunch of people around me were smoking and it was FINALLY gross to me...not the act, just the smell. but hey, baby steps!
I've also decided I'm not going to post 45 day pictures for P90X because I would rather wait and show some super dramatic 60 day pictures in two weeks. But I will be uploading a new vlog today...what about, you ask? Oh, you must WAIT!
The weather is super gross here today. I'm so ready to go back to Jax where it's hot and humid. I'm a freak, I know.
Happy Tuesday!
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