Days 7 & 8

Day 7 (yesterday) was my first rest day! It felt good to just take it easy and not worry about a workout last night... and it was very much needed considering our apartment lost power for about 26 hours! I felt a little like I was slacking off not bringing it last night but I still followed the diet so it's all good :]

Today, day 8, was chest/back and the ab ripper x, same as last Sunday. Difference is, this week it totally kicked my butt and made me ridiculously nauseous!! Not even kidding, it was brutal. I think part of the problem is that I didn't drink enough water yesterday and today... Without power and electricity, I was freezing! Freezing. And it's hard to bring yourself to guzzle 96oz of water when you're so cold you don't even want to move. Whatever it was, my workout tonight totally ran me down. By the time I was 10 minutes into chest/back, I started feeling sick to my stomach... by the time I started the ab ripper, I seriously thought I was going to throw up. I stuck to it, though! No breaks, no pausing, no cutting corners. I broughtttt it! Like a champ, haha. I'll tell you what, nothing could touch how amazing it felt to drink my recovery drink and take a long, hot shower after my workout was done! (Thank God we got electricity back earlier in the afternoon so I was able to workout and actually shower afterwards!).

Right now during the chest/back and ab ripper session, I struggled the most with decline pushups (well, pushups in general- I still do them on my knees, ugh) and the under the fence move (dude, I cannot hover myself over the ground to snake through and back into downward dog)... I'm really liking the resistance bands for the modified pull-ups. They definitely make me sore! I'm going to do pull-ups before I'm done with these 90 days! I'm gonna make it happen. As far as the ab ripper, I seriously struggle with the oblique v-sit crunches (or whatever they're called)... I can squeak out twenty of the twenty-five, but I have to bend my legs. Ab ripper in general is a killer. I did all the scissors tonight, though! My abs were on fire after that. But I think that was the first time I did all twenty-five of those, so I'm proud! Gotta celebrate the victories, right?

I found it extremely difficult to follow the p90x diet without power... I couldn't cook ANYTHING! I was so furious, you have no idea. All I wanted to do was throw some chicken on the Foreman and heat up my broccoli soup! Alas, such a simple meal was too much to ask for. I settled for a salad from Cosi (which I hesitantly ate because I didn't know exactly how many veggie portions it contained) and a bland rotisserie chicken (which I shoved down my throat simply because I needed to protein portions). This morning I caved and bought a turkey sausage egg white flatbread from Dunkins and washed it down with a Wawa coffee. Don't judge, I had to eat! And the coffee was just so warm and delicious... 

Anyways, I'm excited to be starting week two! I'm still as determined as ever to stick to all the routines and the diet so I can get some results! Tomorrow is "the X in p90x workout"- plyometrics! That workout is exhausting like no other. But what will I do? I'll bring it!