Dis­tance Run­ning and Tennis

In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t been post­ing my work­outs as of late. At least I haven’t been with the fre­quency that I used to. I will try to get bet­ter about it, start­ing with today’s blog post.

This past Sat­ur­day, a beau­ti­ful spring day in the Car­oli­nas, I suf­fered from Spring Fever in a bad way. Actu­ally, since the date was March 19, 2011, it was in real­ity the last day of win­ter. How­ever, the tem­per­a­ture was in the mid-70s (Fahren­heit) so only the pick­i­est of peo­ple would call it a win­ter day! Char­lotte held its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade down­town and my local dog park got a group together to march. A friend and I went together with our dogs and we had a really good time. How­ever, the sun was shin­ing brightly that day so I did man­age to get quite a bit of sun.

After return­ing home, I had planned on hit­ting some ten­nis balls at the local pub­lic park. First, though, my aging par­ents needed for me to mow the lawn. Silly me for­got to wear work gloves and I got blis­ters on both hands. Not just blis­ters, mind you, but bub­bles the size of golf balls! Yes, they hurt. On top of that, I had man­aged to get even more sun. I was smart enough to apply sun­screen, but there is some­thing about over­dos­ing on Vit­a­min D that just drains you. Read more

P90X Lean Sched­ule Hybrid

Can you tell I’m old? Here I am work­ing out on a Fri­day night! Today I con­tinue with the P90X Legs and Back rou­tine. I am bas­ing this Hybrid work­out on the Lean pro­gram devised by the cre­ators of P90X. To be more spe­cific, I am using the weighted exer­cises from the Lean pro­gram. In the first block, I did the Shoul­ders & Arms rou­tine along with the Legs & Back rou­tine, just like the Lean pro­gram sug­gests. Now that I have started the sec­ond block, I am switch­ing out the Shoul­ders & Arms for the Chest, Shoul­ders & Tri­ceps while con­tin­u­ing on with the Legs & Back. Here are the results of my workout.

P90X Legs and Back Exer­cise List

Bal­ance Lunges: 25 each leg; RPT=8; RPE=8; RPD=2
I can tell that I am get­ting used to these now. I still do bet­ter on the left side than the right.

Calf Raise Squat: 15 lb weights, 25 each leg; RPT=8; RPE=8; RPD=2
Weight stayed the same from last week but I think I am putting more into the exer­cises. Read more

P90X Chest, Shoul­ders and Tri­ceps Ten­nis Workout

OK, last I posted I thought I might be com­ing down with a flu bug. Luck­ily, either I fought it off or it was just a false alarm. No more scratchy throat, no more tired, list­less feel­ing. I did skip last night’s work­out due to Valentine’s Day. Hey, you try telling your sweetie that you can’t do any­thing for Valentine’s Day because you have a work­out to do and post on your blog, then see how that goes over with her! Can you say, “walk­ing papers”?

Any­way, I’m back to work­ing out and post­ing the results. Today, I am doing the P90X Chest, Shoul­ders and Tri­ceps work­out. Must admit, I am a bit con­cerned with this par­tic­u­lar work­out, since it is heavy on the push-ups. For those of you who have been fol­low­ing along, you know that in the Jan­u­ary Hybrid work­out, I was per­form­ing an inter­val work­out with lots of push-ups. Read more