P90 X, Week 1, Day 4

I made it to Day 4, and I was stoked to find out that today's workout was YOGA. I love, love, love yoga, mostly because of the euphoric *high* feeling it gives me (discussed in yesterday's blog). I even bought a super cute Yoga mat yesterday.

My overall thoughts on Yoga X is that it's very good! I thoroughly enjoyed it and have gotten flexible enough to where I was able to do most of the stretches and poses throughout the workout. There were only 2  out of 38 poses that I absolutely could not do. One was called the Crane. In this pose, you end up supporting your whole body in the air using your elbows. I uh, did what I could. The second pose I could not do was called "Plough into Shoulder Stand with Leg Variations Into Plough". Yes, it was as difficult as it sounds. It was basically a backwards headstand...? I don't know how else to describe it. You support all of your weight on your head/shoulders and your entire body, including torso are up off the ground. I definitely need more practice on this one, and I know I'll get it with 86 more days left to go.

I had to do this workout with a lot of commotion going on in my home. There was my husband, who came into the room to peek in on me from time to time, then sat down at one point and loudly yelled from the room I was in to our son, who was all the way at the other end of the house. I had to kick them both out of my workout area and my peaceful zone at one point. Then there was my husband (again), who grew impatient with the 90 minute routine and repeatedly asked, "You done yet?" because he was hungry. And lastly, there was my husband... who kinda stood there baffled, watching me in some really embarrassing sort of positions. I much prefer to work out in the peace of an empty home; However, that was not possible tonight. The good news is that I looked pretty good doing this particular workout because I've been practicing yoga for several weeks now. I would not have been able to get through an upper body workout with people walking in and out and asking me questions!

I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire now watching the snow come down in my picture window. I made a grocery run earlier, though I did not brave Walmart as I previously said I would. I went with Kroger. I stocked up on some healthy foods for the week. I'm still motivated to stick with this fitness 'stuff'; I just hope it all pays off in the end, because I'm getting frustrated with my weight just staying the same. And as I'm saying this, I'm checking out the bag of assorted Lindor truffles that my mother in law brought over for Valentines Day. Creamy chocolate straight from Heaven. Which brings me to another topic- it seems my mother in law is always trying to fatten me up; what's up with that? But I'll save all the mother in law talk for another post. Good night, friends.