Nine years ago today I gave birth to my oldest child. After 5 hours of labor and just 20 minutes of pushing, Jake Ryan was born. As I held him in my arms, I forgot about my sore legs and my broken tailbone and thought instead about my son.
If only I could tap into that kind of strength every day. Don't get me wrong, I actually did okay and was mostly pain-free at the time of today's P90X workout. However, what began as a little knot of pain in both buttcheeks spread down to my hamstrings and up underneath my shoulder blades by dinnertime.
Even though my body was sluggish this morning, it was not as slow to jumpstart this morning as it was yesterday. The fact that I didn't have to jump or even move my legs past the warm-up almost made me giggle. I thought to myself: I don't even have to move? I can just STAND here and work out? To not have to move any body part except for my arms felt as if I were cheating somehow. Sure my arms hurt, but I rarely had to work my biceps and triceps to fail. That said, I'll probably have to invest in 12 and 15# dumbells very soon, because the 8 and 10# ones were a bit too easy for the first arm workout of the program. I don't want "man" arms or anything, but I do want to feel that sense of accomplishment that comes with graduating to the next weight.
The ab workout felt very different than it did on Sunday. I went straight from working hard to having nothing left to give in a matter of seconds. My all was not something I had to give after one hour of working out. I kept trying, but my body wouldn't perform the way my brain was telling it to. I felt disappointed and frustrated by the time the ab ripper video was over: my abs didn't feel sore and I had a screaming, teething baby to attend to.
By the time I dropped Ember off at daycare this afternoon, the pain had finally settled in and I'm sure I looked like I had been horseback riding or something as I waddled across IPFW's campus to coach my students through their first works cited list. My feet barely lifted off the ground and my left foot kept hitting the break in each sidewalk block. At least I didn't trip, because that would have been funny--one college instructor plummeting straight onto her face with her stick arms folding like putty beneath her.
One last note: though I baked and decorated a yellow cake with chocolate frosting and M&Ms (my favorite) for my son's birthday party tonight, I did not have a slice. I looked around at my family shoveling down every last crumb and gulping down pop until they burped and smiled. I passed my first true nutrition challenge. I shook my head at Aaron who scarfed down a large square of cake with three glasses of diet coke. I love my husband, even if his will is not yet as strong as mine. :)
***For those of you waiting to see things from Aaron's perspective, Aaron will be posting on a weekly basis. His first blog will be here soon!***
Workout: Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X at 9:00 a.m.
Hours slept: 6.5
Breakfast: turkey and cheese croissant, 4oz orange juice
Recovery Snack: protein bar and diluted oj
Lunch: bowl of vegetable soup
Afternoon Snack: rice cake and 1oz cashews
Dinner: two burritos (beans, seasoned meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes), one taco (minus the beans)
Days to go: 87
If only I could tap into that kind of strength every day. Don't get me wrong, I actually did okay and was mostly pain-free at the time of today's P90X workout. However, what began as a little knot of pain in both buttcheeks spread down to my hamstrings and up underneath my shoulder blades by dinnertime.
Even though my body was sluggish this morning, it was not as slow to jumpstart this morning as it was yesterday. The fact that I didn't have to jump or even move my legs past the warm-up almost made me giggle. I thought to myself: I don't even have to move? I can just STAND here and work out? To not have to move any body part except for my arms felt as if I were cheating somehow. Sure my arms hurt, but I rarely had to work my biceps and triceps to fail. That said, I'll probably have to invest in 12 and 15# dumbells very soon, because the 8 and 10# ones were a bit too easy for the first arm workout of the program. I don't want "man" arms or anything, but I do want to feel that sense of accomplishment that comes with graduating to the next weight.
The ab workout felt very different than it did on Sunday. I went straight from working hard to having nothing left to give in a matter of seconds. My all was not something I had to give after one hour of working out. I kept trying, but my body wouldn't perform the way my brain was telling it to. I felt disappointed and frustrated by the time the ab ripper video was over: my abs didn't feel sore and I had a screaming, teething baby to attend to.
By the time I dropped Ember off at daycare this afternoon, the pain had finally settled in and I'm sure I looked like I had been horseback riding or something as I waddled across IPFW's campus to coach my students through their first works cited list. My feet barely lifted off the ground and my left foot kept hitting the break in each sidewalk block. At least I didn't trip, because that would have been funny--one college instructor plummeting straight onto her face with her stick arms folding like putty beneath her.
One last note: though I baked and decorated a yellow cake with chocolate frosting and M&Ms (my favorite) for my son's birthday party tonight, I did not have a slice. I looked around at my family shoveling down every last crumb and gulping down pop until they burped and smiled. I passed my first true nutrition challenge. I shook my head at Aaron who scarfed down a large square of cake with three glasses of diet coke. I love my husband, even if his will is not yet as strong as mine. :)
***For those of you waiting to see things from Aaron's perspective, Aaron will be posting on a weekly basis. His first blog will be here soon!***
Workout: Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X at 9:00 a.m.
Hours slept: 6.5
Breakfast: turkey and cheese croissant, 4oz orange juice
Recovery Snack: protein bar and diluted oj
Lunch: bowl of vegetable soup
Afternoon Snack: rice cake and 1oz cashews
Dinner: two burritos (beans, seasoned meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes), one taco (minus the beans)
Days to go: 87
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