Day 10 (AM) - Gym weights and ArcTrainer (30 minutes)

This weekend was daylight savings time, so I lost an hour and it made it all that much harder to wake up at 5AM this morning, but I dragged my butt out of bed and got into the gym.  It was a typical workout for a Monday with weights and Arc Trainer.  Nothing special, but the key is to make sure to get it done.  I was well over my calories yesterday, so I need to re-focus on eating right.

Day 9 (PM) - X2 Ab Ripper & Chest + Back + Balance

I did Ab Ripper and it didn't require as much modification to the workout this time.  Doing it twice a week is starting to help.  I did the second half of Chest+Back+Balance and also had an easier time of it than I did last week.  All encouraging signs.

Day 9 (AM) - Basketball

I got up this morning and played some basketball with a group at church.  We play at 7 AM and usually play for about 90 minutes.  It was fun, but not an overly strenuous workout.  Still, it works some muscles that some of the other exercises don't hit as much, so it's still valuable.  I started up again playing on Saturdays about 6 weeks ago and I definitely felt the pain more than I do now, so it's helping some. 

Day 8 (AM) - ArcTrainer (30 minutes)

Short workout this morning.  Lately work has been keeping me late, so I'm also having trouble getting in my second workout of the day.  I keep trying to do what I can.  I have to make sure to get in a second round of Ab ripper this weekend.

Day 7 (AM) - Leg workout and ArcTrainer

I'm a bit late posting this, but I got a good workout in on Wednesday morning working mostly on legs with the different machines.  I then did my normal ArcTrainer workout for 30 minutes.

Day 6 (AM) - 4.5 miles on treadmill

I'm now up to 4.5 miles on the treadmill.  I alternated my speed throughout the distance to allow me some time to recover throughout the run.

1 mi - 10-minute pace
1.5 mi - 9-minute pace
.5 mi - 10-minute pace
1 mi - 9-minute pace
.5 mi - 10-minute pace

At the end I still had plenty in the tank, so next time I run I will probably try for 5 miles.  After that my goal will be to improve my times before moving up to a longer distance.

Day 5 (PM) - P90X2 Ab Ripper & 15 minutes of Chest+Back+Balance

I got home tonight and started with Ab Ripper.  Good news is that it seemed a bit easier this week.  Chin-ups and pull-ups are still hard (especially moves like core-crunch chin-up).  I used to be able to do 8-10 of these and now I struggle to do 6.  Oh well, I'll get back to form soon if I can keep this up.  I did okay at eating today except for eating a few too many dark chocolate peanut M&M's.  It was a stressful weekend at work because of long nights to finish a project, so eating over the weekend was not good.  I need to do better with my eating habits.