30 minute Yoga and Light Stretching Plus MORE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to the year 2013!

I am quite sore from yesterday's workout so today I decided to take it a bit easy. That doesn't mean I just sat on my ass the entire day and eating bon bons!

In the morning, while enjoying my hot tea, I did 30 minute Yoga and light stretching. Nothing super crazy, just basic poses starting off with 3 sun salutations, then:

• crescent pose
• prayer's twist
• warrior 2
• triangle pose
• twisted triangle pose
• warrior 3
• half moon
• twisted half moon
• cobbler pose
• twisted seated pose (forgot the actual name for it)
• camel pose
• cat stretch
• single hamstring stretch (each side)
• both hamstring stretch

I hold about 10 count slow breathing for each pose. Some poses I transition from one to another (from crescent pose to prayer's twist on the same side, warrior 2 into triangle poses, warrior 3 into half moon then twisted half moon for example). Some I transition back into downward dog etc.

Just a bit variety to loosen up my tight muscles, especially my upper back and hamstrings!

Then during the day, I did some house cleaning, vacuuming the entire house plus cleaning the tile floor area where I usually do my workout.

It was good to stay active and avoid being locked in front of the computer for the entire day! Plus I was quite busy in the first half morning doing some cookings.

FUN TIMES!

TIME OFF

I had to deviate from this week workout schedule. First of all, yesterday already messed up with my workout schedule, so I decided to just do whatever I could handle at the time. One thing for sure, I will still be doing LovingFit Sharper Abs Challenge in a Month.

Anyway, my left knee is still not in its prime yet so I am gonna take it easy for any lower body workout.

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 90 - Yoga X and OOOHMMM.....DONE!

I finished Yoga X this morning and it was all good. Maybe today is the last day, maybe today is Friday or whatever reason, I had to resist a temptation to skip forward to Yoga Belly after the first 46 minutes of moving Asanas. But I still went through the whole thing though, EXCEPT CRANE. Ugh, that one is a killer and I've made my mind, before the end of this year, I should be able to do Crane! And to achieve that, I need to work more on my upper body strength.

Well, I can't believe I've finished the whole P90X Lean routine. Time goes really fast. It just felt like yesterday I started this whole routine and all sudden before I knew it, I'M DONE!

I'll write up in a separate post about my whole experience with this P90X Lean routine. Right now I need to jump to shower and get ready to work.

Happy weekend!

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 89 - Drenched in sweat with Cardio X

Cardio X finished and tomorrow will be the legendary Day 90. As usual Cardio X always makes me drenched in sweat towards the end. I even had to keep wiping out my sweat so it won't get into my eyes and nose. Sounds gross? Yes, kinda, but it's all good :D

I noticed my right foot always has this pain whenever I land on it. It's not bad, but it's getting annoying to me. Maybe it's time for me to invest for a better shoes with better heel support?

Since yesterday, I felt this one sharp pain on my upper left head. It's not bad, but when it strikes, it's really hurt. It feels like a sharp needle being injected into my upper left skull. I've never had this before. This morning, I thought it was gone, but earlier I just felt it again. And it only happens on that one particular spot.

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 88 - Snoozing through the X Stretch

What can I say about the X Stretch beside it's way too easy and I almost wanted to take today as my rest day. However, I decided to get up and got it over.
A couple of times I almost wanted to fall back asleep when doing the floor stretches.

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 87 - Kenpo X

The last Kenpo X for me and I'll stay away from it for a little while. I know I mentioned before that Kenpo is one of my favorite workout because it is fun doing various punching and kicking. However, after doing it for almost every single week for straight 3 months does wear it down.

Anyway, I took a day off today from work because today is MY BIRTHDAY! Yay, Happy Birthday to me..LOL.

I don't really have any plans tonight or anything like that, but last Saturday I had a dinner with my friends and they bought me a birthday cake. I'll have a separate post for that one.

3 more days to the end! WOOT!

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 86 - Core Synergistics

For some reason when I did Hip Raise on the left side, I might push a bit too hard with my arms that I twisted the upper left back muscles. It's not that bad, but a little annoying, especially I can always feel it whenever I try to stretch out my left arm. I wasn't quite upbeat this morning so I skipped the last 3 bonus workout and fast forward to the cool down session.

I had a little hard time to get up this morning. Maybe it's towards the end, and my body is aware of it.

P90X Lean Recovery: Day 85 - Yoga X

I was puzzled when updating my workout list for this week and realized that my Day 90 falls on Friday, instead of Saturday. And isn't Day 90 supposedly my X Stretch/Rest day instead of Yoga?

I had to go back through the calendar and counted the days on calendar one by one for at least THREE times! In the end, Day 90 still ended up on Friday, April 30, 2010, and it isn't the Rest Day. *sigh*

Anyway, Yoga X was fine today, and I was tempted to do Fountain of Youth from One on One with Tony Horton, instead of Yoga X. But, I still did Yoga X for the full 90 minutes. Not sure if I didn't have enough food from last night or I was so anxious to do my weekend chores, I wasn't quite focus in the beginning of Yoga X. Regardless, I was still sweating for the first 46 minutes.

Remember I said on this post about Wheel? I have to take it easy not to hold Wheel too long. I almost sprained my left wrist when I came down from wheel. Here's the thing, I could lift my body to Wheel pose, but I had hard time to come down and not crashed. I still have to work more on my upper body strength.