Day 24 - My Own Heating System

The weather here has been pretty cool lately, about as cool as Texas gets in the winter. We decided not to turn on the heat, so it's been quite cool in the house too. I was wearing a couple layers of clothing until it came time to do the Level 3 workout. Now I've peeled those layers off and I'm still burning up.

I think when I began this second round of JM, I noted that the lunges seemed easier. I don't know if my few days off really made a big impact or what, but lunges were killer today. I was huffing and puffing through them and my quads were burning up.

Day 2 - Doing with Intention

I was hoping that after one round of JM30, that the second round would be easy peezy. Unfortunately, I can't report that my hope was reality. The level 1 workout certainly wasn't easy still. It was still very challenging. There were some big differences though:

1. Intention - I could actually workout with intention as Jillian likes to say. Instead of focusing on merely doing the moves and not falling on the floor, I was able to work on form, and make each move count.

2. Lunges - The lunatic lunges must have made a difference, because man, this set of lunges in level 1 felt like heaven in comparison.

3. Abs - The first round of level 1, I barely felt anything in the abs. This time, my abs are fully in motion and really really working.

I also did a 3 mile run on the treadmill today. I'm a bit sore all over from the workout yesterday, but the run felt good. I rediscovered the joys of guilty pleasure music. My song to get my through the last part of the run was Hanging Tough by the New Kids on the Block. My song of the day was Pour Some Sugar on Me. :)

Day 22 - Feelin Lazy

I don't know what it was today, but I really did not want to get off the couch and go do a workout. I was perfectly content lying around cuddling with the dogs and feeling guilty about not working out. BUT because of this blog, and with Traci and Jillian watching, I knew I couldn't phone this one in. Heck, Jillian would probably come haunt my dreams if I did that.

I got off my butt. Did the workout. Level 3 is officially easier than level 2, and way more fun. The supermans in circuit 1 would be much more pleasant if my dogs didn't shed so much hair. I still hate the lunges from circuit 2 because they're a sore reminder of Level 2.

Day 14 - Lunatic Lunges

Well, I thought that the first day of level 2 was tough, but day 14 was tougher, but in completely different ways. With day 11, I was coping with major amounts of sweat, and pushing through the cardio sections. Today, my quads and shoulders were so burning up and I thought they were just going to fail. One of the toughest things about this level is that you do moves back to back sometimes that work the same muscle groups, meaning that muscle group is on fire when you're done. Examples:

Lunatic Lunges - Circuit 2's strength section is composed of a static lunge with bicep curl, followed by pendulum lunges. Gaaaaahhh.... my quads feel ripped, as in torn apart!

Plank Moves that Kill - Traci mentioned these previous, but it's the ones in Circuit 3 that really murder me. Circuit 3 has plank jacks for cardio, and then plank twists for abs. The part that really feels like it's going to die is my shoulders. The strength moves of Circuit 3 are two moves that work your shoulders... and then guess what part of your body is also worked in plank? Uhh, shoulders! Am I gonna end up with Michele Obama arms after this?