Day 6

So today was a workout!!  It was Back and Legs.  My legs were killing me!  The workout was an hour long, and I sweated more today than I have in any of the other workouts!  We needed to have a pull up bar for the back part.  Instead we did inclined pushups using a chair and used the resistance bands and made up our own stuff!  We couldn't have done the pull ups anyways, but we need to get a bar and do pull ups putting our feet on a chair for now.  I enjoyed todays workout, but my legs were shaking and I couldn't feel them very well! Ha!

We are going out of town tomorrow so we are a little worried about how we are going to do our workout!  We are going to take the DVD's with us and try to do them at the hotel!  We have done so good getting up early and surviving the workouts.  We don't want to miss any days.  Well, day 7 tomorrow, one week gone!  Tomorrow is Kenpo.  I have heard this is a fun one!

Day 5

Today was Yoga.  It was a 90 minute video.  We did 45 minutes of it for 2 reasons!  #1 we did do not have time to do it all in the morning.  #2 I knew we couldn't get through the entire thing right now anyways!  I have seen my high school athletes struggle through 45 minutes of this DVD so I knew we wouldn't make it quite yet!  I was right!  We did do our 45 minutes, but both of us were hurting pretty good and sweating quite a bit!  I could have gone a little longer, but I didn't have time in the morning.  I am satisfied with the 45 minutes.  Next week I will go minimum 1 hour of Yoga.  Tomorrow is Legs and Back.  I am kind of looking forward to that!  We bought resistance bands to use instead of dumbbells.  I am anxious to try them out!

Day 4

Well today I got to sleep in!!  Yippee!  Today is our day off.  It is Wednesday and we have decided that works best with our schedule.  I have volleyball open gym and class on Wednesdays so once I leave the house, I don't get home until about 9:30 pm!  Chad did the Ab Ripper X tonight since we did not fit it in yesterday.  He said it really sucked and he couldn't get through the entire thing!  I admit, I did not do it today.  I was too tired when I got home late and knew I would have to be up at 5:30 am for Yoga!  Yikes!  

Day 3

It was hard to get up today!!  Had some coffee and got started about 5:45 am.  We did Shoulders and Arms today.  We did not have big enough dumbbells, so we felt we did not get much out of the workout.  There were a few exercises that our little dumbbells were plenty heavy for, but overall, we needed more.  We headed to Academy tonight and bought some bands to try in place of the dumbbells.  The DVD shows the workout using either one.  I am not near as sore today as I was yesterday.  Chad said the same thing.  We went and set in my parent's hot tub for a while and that really helped our hamstrings and lower back!

Ab Ripper is the second part of today's workout, but because of time, we didn't do it this morning.   We planned on doing it tonight, but got home late.  It is a short video so we will sneak it in tomorrow sometime.  Tomorrow is supposed to be our day off.  Can't wait to sleep in until 6:30 am!  LOL!

Day 2

Well 5:30 am came awful early!  I got up at 5:30, drank a cup of coffee and ate a banana.  We started our workout at 5:45.  Today was Cardio X.  The warmup was yoga and it was a full workout itself!  After the yoga, I was sweating quite a bit and wondering if I would make it!  After that, I enjoyed the rest of the video more!  The workout kept you going for a full 45 minutes without any breaks!  There were many different exercises, from kickboxing, to core, to yoga, to plyometrics.  

I am pretty sore today all over!  My hamstrings, butt, and inside of my thighs hurt the most!  Sitting down and getting up is very uncomfortable!  I am glad I have the job I do so I can move around.  If I sit down for a while, I get really tight!

Well, 88 more days left!  Tomorrow is Shoulders & Arms and Ab Ripper X.  I think tomorrow night calls for some time in the hot tub! So far, the workout is great!

Day 1 Pictures and Measurements

Here is a before picture of me!  Chad won't allow me to post his!! LOL!

Okay, so here are our measurements!  Don't laugh!

CHAD

Body Fat % = have not done yet

Weight = 233

Chest = 43

Waist = 43

Hips = 44

Right thigh = 22

Left thigh = 22

Right arm = 16

Left arm = 15

AMBER

Body Fat % = have not done yet

Weight = 124

Chest = 34

Waist = 32

Hips = 37

Right thigh = 20

Left thigh = 19

Right arm = 11

Left arm = 11

Meals - Week 1

We are using the Extreme Home Nutrition Plan book that came with the DVD's as our guide.

SUNDAY

Breakfast:  recovery drink, low-fat yogurt, banana

Snack: no snack - ate late breakfast

Lunch:  chef salad

Snack:  protein bar (yuck), strawberries

Dinner:  salmon, asparagus, brown rice

**I had my regular morning coffee and evening glass of wine!

**Drink water or tea with meals

MONDAY

Breakfast:  recovery drink, low-fat yogurt, banana

Snack:  granola bar

Lunch:  Healthy Choice frozen meal

Snack:  tossed side salad with low-fat italian dressing

Dinner:  broccoli, grilled chicken breast, grilled potato wedges

**Coffee for breakfast

**Tea and/or water throughout the day

TUESDAY

Breakfast:  recovery drink, low-fat yogurt, banana

Snack:  granola bar

Lunch:  Chad - Healthy Choice Meal Amber - corndog, brocolli, pineapple, tatertots (school lunch!)

Snack:  peanut butter crackers

Dinner:  pork chop, fried potatoes, corn (ate at my mom's house)

**coffee for breakfast

**tea, water, or chocolate milk with meals

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast:  low-fat yogurt, banana (Chad) or granola bar (Amber)

Snack:  granola bar

Lunch:  Healthy Choice meal (Chad), nothing (Amber)

Snack:  granola bar

Dinner:  Subway roasted chicken breast (Amber), grilled chicken salad (Chad)

**coffee for breakfast

**tea, water, diet dr. pepper

THURSDAY

Breakfast:  Recovery drink, low-fat yogurt

Snack:  granola bar

Lunch: Healthy Choice (Amber), beef with broccoli and steamed rice (Chad)

Snack:  granola bar (Chad), cake and ice cream (Amber)

Dinner:  Oriental House (Rylea's choice!)

**coffee with breakfast

**tea and/or water with meals

FRIDAY

Breakfast:  Recovery drink, granola bar, yogurt

Snack:  granola bar

Lunch:  Smoked brisquit, smoked turkey, potato salad (Chad), pizza dippers (Amber - school lunch, yuck!)

Snack:  none

Dinner:  grilled chicken salad

**coffee with breakfast

**tea & water with meals

**1 beer

SATURDAY - on the road and in St. Louis

Breakfast:  Recovery drink (slimfast)

Snack:  sunflower seeds, doritos snack mix, vitamin water (in the car!)

Lunch:  McDonald's Southwest Salad (Amber), 2 snackwraps (Chad)

Snack:  ???

Dinner:  Chicken Quesedillas (Amber), grilled chicken chibatta (Chad)

**too many beers

Day 1

Well we started this morning!  It was not has bad as I expected, but my hamstrings and abs are going to be sore!  We have decided to do the P90X Lean program.  This is more cardio and less resistance.  It is for people that want to achieve maximum weight loss.  Today was 1 hour of core synergistics.  It was pretty tough!  I think we did fairly well though.  Chad said he had not sweat this much in a long time!  The only issues we had was that we could not always do as many reps or go as fast as the people on the video, but I am sure we will get better!  I am really impressed with how the workout does accommodate everyone.  It shows modified ways to do each exercise, to make them easier or tougher.  After our workout, we started our healthy diet!  For a recovery drink, we are using Carnation Instant Breakfast.  It, along with chocolate SlimFast, low-fat chocolate milk, and YooHoo works just as well as the high dollar powder recovery drinks.   Well, with day 1 behind us, we only have 89 more to go!  Tomorrow we will do Cardio X!