Well in to week 1 of month 2

This week has been a challenge, and a good one.  Both days of weight lifting are new, and harder in progression then last month.  I loved yesterday's workout.  I really enjoy lifting, have a decent amount of strength and endurance when it comes to that.  I like to see my arms beginning to develop again.  Push ups are another thing.  Why is it I can lift weights but struggle pounding out push ups?  And these are military style, one handed, clapping and so on.  NICE.  Ugh.

Still using bands, cannot do a pull up.  I'm not beating myself up over this.  Even when I was in the best shape I've ever been in, weight lifting for months before Maddie was born, I could not do a pull up.  Yet this time around, I'd like to get there.  Maybe round two, and before our big reveal at Christmas. 

It's fun, surprisingly enough to wake up in the morning and feel your sore muscles all over your body.  Each day a new muscle group.  Thrilled that my Tuesday workout is still showing it's reward by my sore glutes and quads. 

Tonight is 90 minute yoga, tomorrow legs.  I need the yoga this evening.  The deep stretching sounds great.  I'm also finally able to get through ALL the Ab Ripper X without stopping.  Dan and I both made it through that fully.  That felt good. 

I still do not like working out at night, and I hope that on Monday of next week, we try to switch over to morning workouts.  Night workouts keep me up later than I want to be, and not getting enough rest at night.  But I simply do better working out with a partner, I work harder and go longer.  I dig the team work aspect of it. 

The photography is going well.  My online classes, learning the lenses, the f stops, aperture...now practice practice practice, continuing to study, buying the .com and choosing a website and so on....it's all wonderfully busy.

Stresses still remain, Maddie's scary breath holding spells, stress that is hard in other areas and so on...but I'm loving P90X and I am SO thrilled to be on the program coming close to the 1/2 way mark of our first round.

RESULTS SO FAR:

1. Looser fitting clothing.  Since I will not get on a scale, I can't say how much, but definitely weight loss in inches
2. Arm/Back definition
3. Increased endurance
4. Amped motivation for life in general.