Day 5 - The Trial of Special K and P90X

Daily Intake For Yesterday:

Breakfast= 1 Special K Protein Bar - Honey/Almond

Snack = None

Lunch =  1 Minced Pork Barbeque Sandwich with Cole Slaw and a Limeade Soda

Snack =  None, 16oz. cup of coffee black with 2 Splenda sweetners.

Dinner =  GOOD MORNING APPLE PIE – This is a Special K “Yummy Idea” from their website where you top off Special K – Cinnamon Pecan Cereal with sliced apples.    

I don’t recall seeing anything about coffee and tea and since these are normally calorie free until sweetner is added, I assume this is O.K. for the challenge.  Also, I know that my lunch is not from the “Special K Challenge Friendly Recipes,” which I have been trying to stick with, but I am using the excuse that I did have a meal as “normal.”

Workout:  P90X Legs & Back + Ab Ripper X:

As with the other DVDs, hard to keep up.  I made it through the warm up pretty easily, still breathing hard by the end of it and sweating, but  felt good that I was not totally exhausted.  Then came the workout for the legs and back.  I had no clue how hard this was going to be.  There is this exercise where you squat with your back against the wall so it looks like you are sitting on a chair without the chair.  This thing B-U-R-N-S!  Then for the back, there is the use of the pull up bar.  As Donnie Brasco  would say, “Forget About It.”  I was lucky if I did 4 or 5 pull ups.  Luckily the routines do switch up between back and legs, but by the time the end of the work out came around, I could barely do 1 pull up while they were still doing 15 -20.

 I finally made it through the work out and guess what, Ab Ripper X comes on.    My jaw droped as I forgot that this was right afterwards.  Well it is part of the P90X work out for today so here we go.  I am pretty blown after the earlier workout so I really can not keep up this time.  I am probably doing 50% of the number of reps as the people in the video and grunting and breathing extra hard to do what I could.  Lets just say I was never so happy to finally get to the end of the video and do the cool down stretches.

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