Today was better

We did some wallballs and burpees today. 21 - 15 - 9. It was fairly tough but not as hard as the last one. I think I clearly need to work on form with it all but considering my legs were fairly sore it was a really good day. Today's skill workout was more Olympic lifts and trying to work on form. I can not wait to try some of these more complex moves with real weight at some point in the future.

Crossfit Day 2

I am doing the elements course at my local crossfit. I use the term local very loosely as there are lots in the area and I am still not exactly sure this was the perfect one to choose but let us go with that premise. The first two classes have focused mostly on just movements of exercises focusing mostly on proper form and technique. Now that part of class has gone well. But the rest of the class and by rest I mean the last 15 mins is a small workout. This is the basic form of the normal class but the workout is of lesser intensity. Today's workout was a Half Cindy or 10 mins of 5 pullups 10 pushups and 15 squats. I did 6 rounds and a little more but moves were modified since i am out of shape. I will continue to try and give updates as well.

Working out at Y

I did not see any sweet people dressed up in cop uniforms or anything YMCA. However, this is just a Y not a YMCA. I can however say that they have adequate equipment and thats good enough for me. I am starting easy. A little 40 minute elliptical. It was hardly exciting. But if nothing else it was a nice little sweat and I feel okay. So that is a start.

Dude why haven't you been posting.

I have been waiting till I can workout again. Yea, I messed up good. Or atlest my knee doctor yelled at me and in turn told my mother (he is family) that I was tourqing my knee to much and thats why it was sore. I guess coming off the surgery that was a little more than a year ago my leg still isn't upto where I should be. I know exactly when I hurt it. What the excersice was and how much it hurt a few weeks ago. But that is soon to be in the past the knee pain and swelling has come down dramatically. From my little whoops that I was unwilling to accept nor tlak about. Anyway, I have a plan. Step one was getting my ID to the gym. I lost mine. So I have completed that. More to come.

Hot Yoga and Walking

I went ot hot yoga and it was really tough. I forget how difficult yoga is and then I regret the fact it is 100 degrees inside. I really like the way I feel after the class but I can't say I wasn't contemplating taking a break and walking outside in the cool air for a minute or two. I am glad that I fought that urge. The next day I was really sore. It was fine in the morning but by the end of the day I was relaly feeling it in my legs. My upper body was feeling great in the yoga positions. I was plesently surprised by that. I took two pictures one of the room and another of our sweet Yoga Instructor Julie. I really like her class and she is cool. So I hope to go more to her class.

I have also been walking home from work for some excersice other days. I know it is not exactly tough work. But a 3 mile walk (if I waslk slightly longer) is really nice after work. I wish it was a little bit less humid but that matters less if I bring my bag with a change of clothing.

Ouch wear have I been!?!?

Well I was sick and then I had hives. But that wasn't the worst part. I decided to workout the minute I was allowed to by my doctor and after taking 2.5 weeks off. I hurt my knee. Yea I am a genius. No really I was so excited to get back to what I was doing I over did it. So Here I am after basically taking a 4 weeks off. I am going to the gym and going to ease into to. I am also going to pick up the yoga. I am still going to try and work about 4 days a week untill I feel good again and then I will think about doing the p90x again. I really messed up. Not that I am too upset about the whole thing. I feel strong and I am no longer sick. So those are big positives but I just need be a little more gentle on my poor knee.

I also took my bike into the shop to get tuned up. I spoke ot my doctor and he said I can bike and that was great news to me. So hopefully I will start to workout with the bike too. I am going to try and keep the blogging up regardless of what i do and maybe even throw aa whole bunch of pictures in there if I remember to take them!

allergies

So as it turns out when I was sick (which you would know if you read my blog) my body had an immune response to the virus which is causing my itches and Hives. So the doctor gave me some drugs and such. He told me to lay off the working out for a few days since it makes my hives come out more readily. That means I decided to restart phase 2 on monday. I will get in some sweet cardio this week instead come thursday when I can workout again. Soooo wish me luck on sleeping well again.