Jump and Pump

Corny title but hey it might get some people to read it let's shoot for 3000 visits by the end of next month. Yesterday was the second go at Plyo and today was arms and shoulders. Yesterday went well, I did have to wake up at 4 AM after getting to bed after 11 the night before so I thought that I would be a little sluggish but the thing about the Plyo workout is by the time you are done with the warm up you heart is pumping and your blood is flowing so fast that you tend to wake up very quickly. Since I was a bit more familiar with the moves this time around  I was able to really focus on the form of each move and work harder than I did last week. Don't get me wrong I still made some mistakes but I was able to keep my heart rate up longer and I only had to stop once for a little 10 second breather the entire time. That is not to say I was not counting down the seconds until the next water break but I was getting through it. I decided that so far the Plyo is my favorite workout just because it does burn the amount of calories it does and even though it is one of the longer workouts it goes by very quickly. Another interesting tidbit about yesterday was working harder for more push ups and pull ups must have paid off because my chest and back were all kinds of sore and today they are still a little bit tender but not nearly as bad as yesterday. This morning I did exactly what I said I would do and made the bands shorter on the upper body workout. Needless to say I didn't get as many reps as I did the last time I did the workout but I got a lot more resistance. That is what I was going for this time, they say 12 to 15 reps adds tone to the muscle were as 8 to 10 reps at a heavier resistance will add size and that is exactly what I was going for. I don't know if my entire upper body will be sore tomorrow but I am sure that my shoulders will be. For those keeping track tomorrow is Yoga X day which means another early morning for me I am thinking it will be around 4:40 or so when I wake up and get started. I know it is early and will make me tired but the way I look at working out in the morning is three fold, if I workout before I eat my body is forced to get its energy from stored fat rather than food I just ate, I never really know what my day is going to bring and I don't want to get home and just not feel like working out, that would lead to bad and missed workouts. Most importantly, it makes it that I don't have to miss time with my wife and child while I work in the office for the 90 minutes it take to complete the workouts. I have pretty much been dreading the Yoga disk since the last time I did it as it is no joke but hey if it gets me in better shape and makes me more flexible then bring it on. I have not decided what I am going to do this Sunday, take the day off, stretch, or run again but if I run I think I am going to add a little bit to the distance and go four miles just so I have a nice round number under my belt plus even though it is not anywhere near the miles per week pace I need to stay on to get 500 miles ran this year at least it is something that will give me a little bit of a distance build up for when I do start to run again. I am thinking when I finish P90X I make take a month or so to do some real running and knock away at that 500 mile mark. Well until next time, take a look here to see how yoga went the second time around.