Yoga X, Legs and Back

I'll tell you, doing the workouts during the week is about 50 times harder than on the weekend. I am NOT a morning person, so doing these intense workouts during the morning before work is out of the question, so that only leaves after work. awesome.

I mean, the Yoga DVD was 1 1/2 hours long - that's a really long time to do Yoga, especially if you are about as flexible as a crowbar. Anyway, i sweated my ass off at Yoga - it was really intense - about 45 mins of crazy non-stop hard core yoga moves and the other 45 minutes were balance exercises - less intense, but still challenging. Of all the programs I have done so far, this was the one I had the most trouble with, simply because I have not done Yoga before. I think as the workouts continue and if I have increased flexibility, the Yoga X workout will be more manageable and I will be able to at least make a good faith effort to do all of the moves. I must say though the next day, I did feel very stretched out and limber.

Tonight was another hour workout for legs and back. the back exercises were all pull-ups, i mean there were about 10 sets of pull-ups. I am still at the point where I think 5 year old girls can do more pull-ups than me, but my goal was to do at least 3 "real" ones per set and then use the chair for support like they tell ya. I got the goal and hopefully as I progress, I'll be able to do more and more. As for the leg exercises, there were a lot of lunges and isometric stuff like wall squats, etc. I actually enjoyed the legs part of the workout - it was challenging, but attainable and I was able to do almost all of the exercises to the recommended reps.

Then they stuck another g-damn ab ripper x in there after the legs and back. I don't even want to talk about how much I suck at these. I just hope that the ab stuff gets easier and I am able to do more reps because right now, I'm crapping out at about 10-12 per exercise when you are supposed to do 25. Also my form is crap for most of these. This is definitely an area to improve.

Kempo tomorrow and then, I think a break day??