Happy Friday -- Plyometrics and Ab Ripper

Ahhhh, the weekend is in sight.  After taking a day (or was it two) off from working out (at least from P90X) I was happy to see that Plyometrics was up for today.  Despite being hard, hard, hard; I love this workout.

Today was a bit more difficult for me than the last time I did this, but I guess that's just how it goes sometimes.  I ended up having to sit-out the Circle Runs (due to exhaustion, LOL) but completed everything else.  I am still struggling with the Jump Knee Tuck and the Run Squat 190 Jump Switch (don't ask).  I'll admit to skipping the final set of the last set of exercises because I wanted to get in an Ab Ripper workout as well.

These two workouts are not recommended/scheduled to be done together, but I am already feeling a difference in my abs and wanted to at least do some of the exercises; and that's exactly what I did, some.  I stuck to my plan of 10 reps each, which worked out well until the Roll-up/V Combo and Leg Climbs.  I'm going to let myself think it was because I had done the Pylometrics workout prior, but I know deep down that these are just two exercises I'm going to have to work my way into.

When I was working out with a Pilates instructor I learned that my lower back is very stiff and that my abs are going to have to be extra strong to keep good form on exercises that crunch through that area.  I actually did pretty good on the others that required this strength, but by the time I got to these two I was knackered (that's an English term for tired).

Tomrrow is Shoulders and Arms (another one I love) and then Yoga.  We have a soccer match in the middle of the day, but if I get an early enough start I might do both in one day ... yeah, right! ;)

These two workouts together took 1 hr. and 15 mins (because I did fewer reps on the Ab Ripper workouts and skipped some exercises in the Plyometrics workout, I fast forwarded through them, thus making the two combined just slightly over the length of one) and burned a total of 222 calories using my BodyBugg.  At the peak of this workout I was burning 4.6 cal/min, but during the Ab Ripper portion that dropped to 1.5 cal/min.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Cheri