p90x day 1: a review

Alright boys and girls, here's my p90x review so far! I've decided to go with the p90x "lean" version.

Day 1: Core Synergistics

My first thought: WHY would they have anyone start with this DVD? Its torture. Pure torture. The moves are the following:

Stacked Foot/Staggered Hands Push-up
Banana Roll
Leaning Crescent Lunges
Squat Run
Sphinx Push-up / Military crawl
Bow to Boat
Low Lateral Skaters
Lunge and Reach
Prison Cell Push-ups
Side Hip Raise
Squat X-Press
Plank to Chaturanga
Walking Push-up
Superman / Banana
Lunge Tricep Curl Press
Towel Hoppers
Reach High & Under Push-ups
Steam Engine
Dreya Roll
Plank to Chaturanga Iso
Halfback
Table Dip Raise

OK. Words I hate. DREYA ROLL. HATE. HATE. HATE. My all time most hated exercise is a Burpee. This, reminds me of a backwards burpee. Please kill me. Although this move only last a minute, its the most loathed minute of the day. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Words I love. Skaters. Steam Engine. Squat Run. Yes, I enjoy being tortured at times. Skaters are fun. I guess I enjoy hopping back and forth. Steam Engine made me a little dizzy by the time we got to 50 (50 on each side = 100 standing ab moves without getting on the floor. Fabulous!) Squat Run...I just like running. This seems a little silly while doing it. I think I even giggled a bit!

Overall, the workout was a little short of being an hour, and I burned 235 calories. This, disappointed me a bit. Half of the moves I struggled with out of unfamiliarity, so hopefully once I get the hand of them, I'll be able to go all out and burn even more!

89 more days!

Easily excitable.

This is a good week.

I started p90x. It makes me feel amazing.

My best friend who lives in Maryland (yeah, that's a whole 3,000+ miles away from me!) is home for Christmas for the next two weeks. We're being reunited tonight. I haven't seen her since LAST Christmas, and I am so f'n stoked she's here!

Yesterday, JILLIAN MICHAELS TWEETED ME. I shouldn't be as excited about that as I am, but, um, HELLO?! Its my woman!

Someone at work had pre-ordered her new book, and without even asking me, put my name on the wait list. I had tweeted something along the lines of, "HAHA, my co-workers know me too well; someone pre-ordered @jillianmichaels new book and automatically put me on the waitlist! :)"

I didn't think anything of it. I'm sure hundred of my tweets have mentioned Jill before. But, I few hours later my phone notified me that someone had replied to me on Twitter. I check to see who/what it was and I'm pretty sure my eyes got a little wide when I saw THIS!



Now, usually she only replies to people when they ask a question. Maybe she just thought she'd inform me I'd be waiting a long ass time for the book, hahaha. (Which, I am aware of, because she's apparently doing a book signing in Los Angeles when it comes out and I had already decided I was going!)

Ugh. I love her. She made my day. As geeky as that sounds. :p