How's that for muscle confusion!

Day 4. Wow. Day 4 already? And I haven't given up yet?? I came close this morning... my alarm went off at precisely 4:15 a.m. but it seemed like it went off about five minutes after I went to sleep last night. I lay there awake for a minute or two, contemplating this whole P90x mishigoss and seriously thought about skipping today's workout. But my conscience got the better of me. In the past, when I have grand intentions of waking up at the butt crack of dawn (*snicker* that one never gets old!) to work out and I hit the snooze one too many times, my own self-loathing kicks in and I end up beating myself up for being so lazy. Thus, not getting any more sleep at all! So this morning, I argued with myself, 'I made a commitment to do this....I don't want to give up....every workout counts....what about my plan?....what about all my blog followers counting on a full report?! Both of them would be very disappointed!!' And suddenly, I was up and out the door!

So Tony Horton's "secret" to P90x is muscle confusion - do exercises in a certain pattern then mix it up for a new challenge to burn the most fat. Well I confused the crap out of mine this morning. Today's video was Yoga X which sounds like an oxymoron to me - extreme yoga? I've never been crazy about yoga with all the 'feel the coccyx lengthening to the earth' garbage, but I have enjoyed a few classes before so I tried to have an open mind. We started with a series of poses - namaste to plank to ashtanga (?) to upward dog to plank to pushup to downward dog to runner's pose and back to plank. Simple, right? Ummm, no. It's not that the moves were challenging my muscles too much, they just hurt my hands and my joints! The palms of my hands were aching and raw, my knees hurt from doing runner's pose after about the sixth time...I like to feel the burn, but not like this. And since the video is an hour and a half long anyway (I only have an hour) I thought it would be okay to skip past that part to some different poses. Guess what? Every pose sequence started with plank, ashtanga, downward dog, yada yada yada. I finally decided I was wasting my precious time that I battled myself over to begin with and put in Core Synergistics again. Take that muscles! By then I only had about 20 minutes to workout, but it was plenty of time to work up a sweat and still feel like I accomplished something.

Last night, the fam and I were running errands when Mr. CarliMB declared he was hungry. I've learned when those words come out of his mouth, I've got about 17 minutes to get him fed before he gets grumpy and moody. So to Applebee's we went. I searched and scoured and finally settled on the 7 oz. sirloin with broccoli and an UN-loaded baked potato. Not great choices, but could be a lot worse. After sharing some of my "snake" with my crumb-grabber and filling up myself, I still had about half of everything left for lunch today. I haven't looked at the nutrition values at all, but I think I passed the first test of eating out with mildly waving colors!

Tomorrow is legs and back, the one I've been waiting for. I bought a chin-up bar, but it didn't fit in my doorway. I bought a plain bar, but the mister doesn't want holes in the door frame. I tried a little southern ingenuity to assemble my own but haven't been successful yet. So I may be doing tomorrow's video without it. But I'm still looking forward to the legs workout. I carry most of my muscle there, like most women, so I'm thinking this will be a huge fat-burner! We'll see! Bring it!!!