I just finished the Ab Ripper X. He finished up by saying that if I had kept up (and that's a damn big "if") I would have completed 349 core/ab exercises. I did 171. The last exercise, (Mason Twist) was just impossible. Given my current shape/activity level. I have an exceptionally difficult time holding myself in the "v" shape with help from my hands, so that just wasn't happening, the "done-lap" gets in the way too much to be all that effective. Of course, that's one of the major reasons I'm doing these exercises, right?
As far as the shoulder/arm workout, I feel pretty good about that. I could complete all the exercises somewhat, some better than others. I used weights between 10 and 20lbs. depending on what was possible, but I made sure that I was always working.
Something else that probably didn't help my day is that I didn't eat all that much. I had: peanut butter/Nutella cookies (yum!), apple juice, orange juice, steel cut oats, water, dried apricots, a few goldfish crackers and two jalapeño dill pickles. I found out a little late that was a bit more acid than my body chooses to handle today. Whoops.
Well, my wife was reading over my shoulder as I was writing this, and gave me some pointers on the Mason twist. I look forward to giving that a chance next time we do this.
Whew, it sure is late in the day, we got working on this as soon as my wife got home, but took longer breaks, and longer for each section, so here it is, 8:00pm, and we've not made dinner yet. We're hoping to start trying to prepare some meals in advance (soups, stews, etc.) in hopes of being able to freeze them, then just throw some servings in a pan and work out.
Here's hoping.
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