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After much cajoling and self-flagellation, I convinced myself to start Kenpo X tonight, and I finished it.

Yay.

BTW, I can hardly move right about now, still being a bit sore from the Legs and Back routine yesterday.

Not much to report - moving along with P90X.

I did that Chest and Back routine again, but started late again and had to skip the Ab Ripper X routine.

Today I did 112 pushups of several varieties - standard, military (elbows in), wide stance, decline, diamond, and dive bombers. I did 20 pull ups (10 each wide and narrow grip), 10 chin ups, and 77 rowing moves, but with heavier weights than last time.

Mental note: sushi is probably not good to have about an hour before a workout. At least not spicy tuna maki with extra wasabi. It didn't come back up, but it definitely didn't taste better the second time around.

And Matthew's surgery is scheduled for 7:30am tomorrow, which means we need to get to the hospital at 6:00am, which means we need to leave by 5:20am to be extra certain we're not late, which means we need to bathe him around 4:30am, which means we need to wake up around 4:00am. Ugh.

And then if I can at all manage it, I need to get myself to physical therapy possibly. But I'd definitely like to make it home for the Plyometrics workout, and of course the Ab Ripper routine to make up for skipping it tonight.

Did I say "Ugh" before?

Double ugh.

I was beat last night and fell asleep early. Too early to be able to do the Kenpo X routine like I was supposed to.

So instead I did it tonight.

My lats are pretty sore, I guess from the Legs and Back routine Friday. Legs are mostly fine. They were a little tender yesterday, but have been feeling pretty good today, if a little stiff after sitting for a while.

I'm nearly 100% free from knee pain. I can still feel a little on certain twists or stretches, but I'm not easing off as much on the workouts as I was last week. I think the stretching and exercises I've been doing for my legs have helped. But I'll likely still hold off any major running undertaking until I'm a lot more confident that I've built up the strength in my legs. Physical Therapy affords me the opportunity to really focus on them with several exercises I'm unable to do at home.

I have to do the Chest and Back routine tomorrow. I hope the soreness fades.

I'm nearly desperate to do anything to keep my mind off of Matthew's surgery on Tuesday, so I probably won't put tomorrow's routine off.

Sore.

That is all.

July 27th: Exhaustion Challenge, push ups. 31. Kind of disappointing. But that's OK, I'm only getting into week 3. And I'm still at the highest level, which I'm assuming means that (as long as I can continue to hit the goals) I'll be that much closer to getting to the 100. I may have tired out my triceps earlier on my bike ride when I was putting most of my weight on the front, riding standing up and leaning on my arms. Regardless, I'm looking ahead to day 1 of week 3, and I'm scared. On Tuesday I'll be going for 99 in the space of about 7 minutes. That's going to be rough. But I'll keep you posted.

July 28th: I'm feeling pretty beat up, and almost didn't do my chin ups. I spent a lot of energy changing the tube on my bike tire... twice. Thanks to the pinch flat I gave myself putting the first one on. Man those tires are tough to get on and off when you're not in practice. I say this because while I struggled mightily getting the tire back on the first time, the second time seemed much less difficult. All of that aside, no excuses for the push ups or chin ups until I'm done, so...

Chin ups: 4 then 4 then 3 then 3 then maxed out at 6. Resting about a minute between sets, for a total of 20 within about 6 minutes or so. Thought for sure I'd struggle at the end, but somehow I managed to pull out one more than the minimum on the max-out set. Week 2 is officially under way, and I'm so far at the mark. I just noticed I don't seem to be too enthusiastic about getting more than the minimum on the max out set. Meh.

No geek update.