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For the last week I havent exercised at all, sure enough Ive been moving and doing things that I would normally do, like at work or when I went to my brothers chasing after the kids all day. I just feel like Ive let myself down and feel like I should maybe restart the program from the beginning.

Beginning of week 3 photographs

 So this is my week 3 pictures, took these yesterday after chest and back. Dont really see that much of a difference in the photos, but I do kind  of feel it. I must apologise for the crappy photos, its my boyfriend thats been taking them and he aint all that good. Week 1 are all on the left hand side and week 3 are on the right.


 Let me know what you think.

P90x Day 10: Shoulders & Arms + Ab Ripper X

Like usual I started my workout with Ab Ripper X, it wasn't as hard as last time but I still found it murder on my Ab area. I still stuck with doing 15 reps of each workout which seems to be begin going well.

Shoulders and arms didn't go that well. It took a lot out of me, I really struggled with a few of the moves especially the flip-grip twist ones, those were murder. I upped my weights to 3.5 a boy did I feel the difference. As I said I did struggle but I felt like I could cope with the added weight as long as I kept my mind blank and only concentrate on what I was doing.

P90x Day 6: Kenpo X

Boy am I glad I downloaded that Heart rate monitor app, cause Kenpo X certainly gets you blood pumping.

Alot of the time it was up at 175 so I had to stop and let it settle down abit, it got that bad at a point I could hear my heart in my ears and there was white spots in front of my eyes. I actually stopped 10 minutes early and I'm sitting down trying to type this. I thought Plyo was hard!

There is like 5 minutes to go in the Celtic V Rangers game so I'm going to go watch Rangers get humped yet again and then I'm going to do X-Stretch. All my muscles are really tight so I think I could use a good stretch.

P90x Day 5: Legs & Back and Ab Ripper X

Ever had your legs feel like jelly, like they are just going to come away from you at any second but you need to keep going? Perhaps you've felt that way while running, swimming or just anything really. Well I felt like this on the first workout. By the end of the balanced lunges I had to sit down. I knew this workout would be bad but never like this. I powered on through after a few minutes and found that they all got easier after that initial pain.

So you are probably wondering why I never updated yesterday, well I was in bed all day coughing, sneezing and general being unwell. I felt like I couldn't get out of bed, today I still feel crappy but it isnt going to get any better for a few days knowing me! So I didn't do my workout yesterday but I dragged myself out of bed and powered on through.

So I started off with Ab Ripper X as usually and still just done my 10 of each workout, next week I plan to up it by 5. When I got onto Legs & Back managed to keep up with "The Kids" somewhat. The only thing that I couldn't keep up with was the various pull-up moves I could only managed 10 of each assisted which is 5 more than Monday so I was pleased as punch with that.

P90x Day 4: Yoga X

Ok so that me just finished Yoga X and I really feel like I need a nap, is that bad? Lol During it I was sweating, wobbling and tipping over every few seconds but as soon as I sat down with a nice cup of tea I suddenly felt so unbelievably tired. Hopefully I’ll have an early night then. 

So The first half of the video was brutal, my arms were shaking so much every time I was in downward dog and I could barely swing my leg into runners pose so I had to keep grabbing my ankle. It must have looked so weird because I could hear my boyfriend sniggering behind me as he was playing his games. 

The second part where you have to hold all the poses, I nearly turned it off on many occasion. I couldn’t do any of them especially hold them but I still tried and I guess that's all that matters just now its "Keep Pushing Play" as Tony Horton repeatedly says throughout the other videos.

Ok well I’m off to go have a shower and something to eat. I'd just like to say thank you to everyone that has been posting comments of encouragement it means a lot to me, usually by now I would have already given up. So thanks guys!

P90x Day 3: Shoulders & Arms + Ab Ripper X

When I woke up this morning my muscles that I used on Mondays workout for Chest & back were sore so I was a bit anxious about doing this workout because it looked like I would need to use those muscles again.

Like before I started off with Ab Ripper X, I didn't expect myself to be any better since Monday and I wasn't disappointed it was just as hard. I still only managed 10 of each exercise but I'm quite pleased with that, just glad that I could in fact do 10 of each with my muscles being so sore.

I then moved on to Shoulders & Arms and I quite enjoyed this, its my favourite workout so far. I enjoyed all the different moves, Some were easy some were hard and I had to rewind the video a few times just to make sure I was doing it the right way. I managed to do 15 reps of each and 16 reps on the ones he said. some of them I really struggled from the 10 onwards mark so Ill need to see about what weights I'm using and some I think ill need to add more onto. The thing is I only have two spindle things (don't really know what they are called) so it will be difficult stopping and changing the weight on each. This is why I was wanting to get resistance bands but unfortunately there just too expensive just now.

Well thats me for today, Im off for a shower and something to munch.Looking forward to Yoga X tomorrow.

P90x Day 2: Plyometrics

Can I just say that this nearly gave me a heart attack!

This was murder, I was panting and hyperventilating. I had to stop countless time but I kept on going even when I thought I was going to be sick. I'm not looking forward to this workout next week at all. I just hope that none of the rest are as bad as this or I'm not going to make it too the second week.

The only thing that was good about this was the afterwards when I went in for a shower it felt brilliant after sweating so much.

P90x Day 1: Chest & Back + Ab Ripper

Ok so earlier I posted on here saying that I would not be starting today but after looking online for recipes and more inspiration I decided that a little toothache shouldn’t stop me.

And so at the back of 8 at night I powered on through, I decided to do ab ripper x first because i knew I wouldn’t do it after an hour of pull-ups and push-ups. I took some advice from this forum post about how you shouldn’t try and do the full 25 reps and I only did 10 of each but even that was murder. My core muscles certainly felt it believe me.