YIKES!!! Has it Really Been Over a YEAR?

Yes, my goodness, it's been over a year since I last blogged! Well a ton has happened in the past year. Starting with my workouts, let's see, I did an Asylum P90X hybrid after my first round of Asylum. To tell the truth I am a weight, pull ups (at least many, many failed attempts at doing them unassisted) and push ups kind of girl. It's so funny because, when I first started working out again, I was doing all cardio and yoga.. Until I started P90X then I fell in love with resistance bands, and push ups.. After I got used to the resistance bands I started with weights, upgraded to a pull up station and can do a HUGE variety of push ups!

So where am I now? Well, after a few more rounds of P90X, I started P90X2.. This was actually quite a change from the weights, and bodyweight exercises I was used to in P90X. Before starting P90X2, I was using 30 lb weights on nearly every set that I was doing. Well P90X2 was more focused on your entire body, so there are tons of stability workouts meant to strengthen your core. I couldn't do Arnold presses on one leg with the 30 lb weights, so I dropped my weight down to 25's and in some cases for things like Y-T flys on the stability ball, 15 lbs. After my first round of P90X2, I started a 2nd. Now I'm alternating P90X one week, and P90X2 the second.. I can't help it I miss my heavy weights!!

Oh yes, I forgot I am now at 35's on some of the sets and I am working toward improving EVERY time I do the workout again. I started out trying 35's in April, let me just say that I couldn't do 1 shoulder press, I couldn't do one bicep curl... NADA!! BUT, I didn't decide to give up trying, instead, I'm doing as many reps as I can with 35's and if they don't surpass 8 reps per set, I also do the set with 25's for max reps. I am not a pro, but this seems to be working for me, I can now do about 10 shoulder presses per side with 35's, tricep kickbacks and nearly everything in Shoulders & Arms. I do the entire Legs & Back routine with 35's in each hand, so I'm doing lunges and squats with 70 lbs!!!

So what is my goal? I think about this often, when I was 300 lbs, my goal was just to lose weight.. BUT NOW, NOW, I want to be strong! I want to do pull ups, multiple one arm push ups, I want to be able to hold crane for more than a few second.. I don't care if anyone thinks I'm thin or not, the truth is that at this point I just want the strength to accomplish... well... EVERYTHING!! I want to be able to do all the things that I could never do as a kid because I was too overweight, or because I was completely uncoordinated!

I really, really want to try everything under the sun, EVERYTHING!!
Hmmm.... I have so much more to write, but for right now, I don't want to bore you to death..
See you soon!