Day 4: The Happy Baby

I believe that there is a direct correspondance between how hard you work out and how easy it is to make the bed each morning. The harder you work out, the easier it is to make the bed. It took me all of 30 seconds to make the bed this morning. Each day we get further into the P90X program, the more it looks like we didn't even sleep in our bed. Truth be told, we're sleeping *more* but collapsing into a fatigue- induced coma sometime after 9 p.m. The position we lie down in is the position we wake up in now!

Today's workout was a nice long yoga routine. I wasn't expecting 92 minutes, but I did as Tony said and did my best to turn my brain off (and not look at the clock!). I was confident but bored after the first 30 minutes. Then Minute 31 slapped me in the face. I wobbled and broke poses, my pecs (I have pecs?) cramped, I sweat, and I stretched until fail for the next 45 minutes. Needless to say, I was practically beaming the final 15 minutes of Yoga X when I got to lie down to finish stretching.

Tony Horton was a lot funnier on this disc. Several times he made me laugh hard enough to break one of those complicated poses. The thing that made me laugh wholeheartedly, however, was the "Happy Baby" pose toward the end of the workout. In this pose, you lie on your back, bring your knees to your shoulders, raise your flexed feet toward the ceiling, grab your feet, and then begin to rock from side to side. I laughed until I cried: Ember just discovered her feet this week and could probably spend an hour in this pose!

My biggest problem with today's workout centered on the space in which I work out. An awkward 12ft by 5ft living room is too small for the average woman doing Yoga X. I can just see my husband's fantastically long arms and legs smacking into the bookshelf, the entertainment center, our HD TV as he loses his balance again and again. I was a gymnast back in the day and even I struggled with poses like Prayer Twist for Runner's Pose to Side Arm Balance and Half Moon to Twisting Half Moon. I cringe at these. But I will be able to do them in less than 3 months!

Today's Workout: Yoga X at 9:30 a.m.

Hours Slept: 7

Breakfast: turkey and cheese croissant

Post-Workout Recovery Snack: protein bar and diluted oj

Lunch: two turkey dogs with ketchup, mozzarella cheese stick, apple

Afternoon Snack: two rice cakes, 10z cashews

Dinner: two 3oz tilapia fillets, brown rice, steamed green beans

Days to Go: 86