P90X Lean Workout Review

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! WELCOME 2009!!!! I can’t believe I was a functioning member of society today after last night. We stayed up to watch the ball drop, my oldest even made it. But it really took it’s toll today after having to wake up at 5:45am to go to work. Plus, after I got to work I discovered that few other people had called in. So that left me and a nurse as the only staff on my floor for about 30 mins this morning. That was fun! Staffing sent us some people after that and we trucked right along the rest of day, but it was a killer. My breakfast was a soy muffin and my AM snack was some toast (had to eat on the fly because of staffing issues, toast was all I could grab out of the dining room at the moment). For lunch I had butternut squash ravioli and an apple. My Pm snack was a protein bar. After work I came home to all my sweeties. My husband had the day off and stayed home with the kids. Apparently they had a great day lounging and playing the Wii. I immediately jumped in to my workout so I would have the rest of my night to do whatever. My husband even joined me for this one. This workout is different from the upper body workout in Phase 1 (shoulders and arms) in that it works more of the chest area and shoulder area using weights and your own body weight. Your do exercises like pour flys (doing a standing fly with dun=mbells and then twisting weights at the wrist like you are pouring something out of them), plank push ups, y press (overhead dumbell press, and pike press (push up where you have your rear up in the air and trying to drop crown of head to the floor). That pike press may sound easy, but trust me it’s not! I could barely squeak out 6. I used mainly 8 and 10 lb weights. I switched up to 5lbs for tricep work though. I stuck with 12-16 reps to achieve that lean look I am looking for. I kicked ass on ab ripper tonight. Even out did my husband on a few of them……ha ha ha! See what happens when you take a break LOSER! My abs will pay for pushing that extra bit tomorrow though. All in all it was a great new routine. I took it slow and took advantage of the breaks (old shoulder injury will forver keep me from keeping up with the big boys on this one). I look forward to seeing the progress I make here. See you all tomorrow for yoga x, if my arms don’t fall off tongiht that is