This morning was legs and back: many lunge and squat -type things plus variations of pull-ups. I need to clean up my room! There was a bit of the cramped feeling going on. During the calf raises, I thought I could go on forever but my calves started to feel like they were being tickled from the inside..? I can't explain it. But people who know me well know that I'm weird about my calves so that had something to do with it. The calf raises were interesting: first you do it wide-toed, then straight-footed, then pigeon-toed. By the time we got to the pigeon-toed ones I was shaky and tickly so I had to quit. There were also wall squats. You do a higher-than-90*-angle for 15 seconds (or 10?) and then you go 90 degrees, then up again. Those were really hard. The other one was at 90* but one legged and switch legs after ever 10 without getting up. I only stopped on one of them. But I don't think I was exactly at 90* though.
Abs again. Man, I am really not liking sit ups. The one where you lie down and sit up and touch your alternating toe is super annoying because for some reason I end up inching up my yoga mat. The sit-up v-ups are almost the worst. The side sit up things are THE worst. I started to skip that part now. I did all 50 seconds of the thing in the end. I'm not sure how upright I'm supposed to be though.
Oh, two gripes I forgot to mention about P90X:
- Tony Horton doesn't show you the move first. As a n00b it's most annoying because I have no idea what anything is. And even after I get to know the moves, I won't remember the names (except Heavy Pants. That name is funny!) so it would be nice to be able to have a refresher without a finger on the rewind button.
- The image on tv isn't a mirror image (...yes... like in Insanity).
