We did it! We made it through phase 1! We felt good finishing week 3 and made it through the 'rest' week feeling great. And then...SQUASH! Right when you think you're doing great it starts all over. That's the nature of the program though I suppose. Today was chest, shoulders and triceps. Now, we did a lot of chest and shoulder moves in the first phase. Or so I thought. Today was pretty much all pushups and triceps. There were some shoulder moves in there that we've seen before, and they are still hard. But tonight brought all new crazy exercises.
For example. There was one called floor flys. Imagine if you will a standard pushup. Under one hand, you have a piece of cardboard or something that will cause a slippery surface. From here, you slide your hand out to the side like controlling it like you're doing a push up. When you get down, you push yourself back up. But you keep your hand on the cardboard and slide your way back up. I did 2. That takes A LOT of strength and coordination and concentration to do these properly. It's going to take a while to get that one.
There were plenty of other tricep moves that were intense. I think I stuck at 10 pounds tonight for all the tricep moves. While 10# might be just a tad too light, 20# is just way too much and especially at the end of the workout I just fail trying to lift it. 15# would probably be ideal, but I don't have those. But...next week I am going to start out with 20# and do what I can and then switch to 10 if I need to.
Tomorrow brings 30 day pictures. I realize that I never posted day 0 pictures, but I'll have a comparison tomorrow. I don't think there will be much of a visual difference, but I can definitely feel it. I am down around 8-9 pounds, and I'm up to notch 4 on the belt instead of 3. :) So we'll just keep going!
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