What's got two thumbs and gains weight when it works out? This guy. That's right - coming up on the two week mark and I've managed to gain four pounds. Awesome.
There was some good news. On Tuesday my faux hernia felt less like a serious injury and more like a strained muscle, so I took a change on P90X yoga - I figured stretching it out was the best course of action at this point (WALK IT OFF!!!, I hear my dad say in my head). I turn on the DVD, and how long is the time bar on the screen? An hour and a half. Ninety minutes of Tony laughing at my yoga form. That's right, Tony even leads the yoga workout. And he wears uncomfortable-to-look-at tight leggings while doing it (with a loose t-shirt - what the heck is that?). Turns out, it was excruciating, but it was a solution. I couldn't do a lot of the push up maneuvers because by stomach hurt too much, but I got through the whole thing and I felt a million times better the next morning. That's right - pain and gain.
But I take issue with the sneakiness of the P90X makers - during Absplosion! Tony says that you don't work out your abs every day, just like you don't work your other muscle groups every day. But then, in the DVD for the day after a workout with Absplosion!, there are fifteen minutes of EXTREME YOGA ABS. Torture, I tell you. Thank goodness I'm coating my over-worked abs with this extra cushioning.
What workout did I do yesterday? I climbed the stairs to my car on the 6th floor of the parking deck. Yeah. That's all I've got. I was in heels ...
Today's workout? Driving range! I know - I'm tempting fate, but it's so nice outside!
On a final note about how my "healthier lifestyle" is ruining my life, my giant water bottle that I'm lugging around to encourage me to drink more water somehow leaked or spilled, and my phone has suffered the consequences. I had to change bags, and I spent the morning wondering how I was going to come up with the money for a new phone or the time to go get it. It was shaky there for a while, but just when it looked like the phone going to survive (screen staying on, intermittent signs of life), I go into the second purse and see that the salad with vinaigrette I packed for lunch had leaked all over it ... and all over my phone.
Well, my college roommate is coming to town this weekend, so I guess healthy living is out the window for a few days. Maybe without salads, dressing, and workouts I'll have a carefree weekend of no spillage - I'll probably lose a few pounds, just to really shoot logic down.
If it's a pulled muscle (as opposed to a really sore one), the last thing you want to do is stretch. Take some ibuprofen, ice the sucker and rest until it's better.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, that creamed spinach was to die for!