Week 6: Day 5 and 6

Success! I am through with week 6! Wow, it feels so great. Yesterday was Legs and Back. I love that dvd. I seriously do. I burn over 550 calories and in the shower yesterday I  noticed I have calf muscles again. Yippee! Since I burned so many calories during Legs and Back and because it is so intense I did not feel the need to add any extra cardio to it. I am seriously glad we do Legs and Back every week.

Today was Kenpo. Kenpo is odd. It is cardio and I feel I am working hard and definitely sweating, but I only burned 300 calories during it. Granted, you are really only working hard for 40 minutes of the dvd. So 300 calories in 40 minutes doesn't sound so bad. I feel like I worked hard though. I was moving faster and kicking a little higher. As for getting ready for next week I went out and bought 15 lb dumb bells today. I am very excited about those on Friday. Not sure what I can do with them, but just excited that for many of the exercises I am ready for a higher weight.

I have experience many highs and lows with P90 so far. Some days I am feeling amazing and strong and can't believe I am doing this then some days I feel fat and wimpy and I just don't know if I am gaining any ground. Today was a day of feeling high. I felt good, I worked hard and laid it all out there. That is the only thing I can do I guess, give it all I got and see where I end up. The one thing I am continuing to take from all of this is to become stronger and to keep making exercise a daily decision. For example, today I cleaned a house. So, after dropping the kids off at school, I went and cleaned a house for 4 hours, then headed straight home, put on my heart rate monitor and did Kenpo. Then showered, headed out the door, grabbed lunch and picked up my kids. The rest of the days was a blur of activity. In the past I would have said, "I don't have time to exercise" and honestly I didn't think I did. But I was able to find that hour and squeeze it in. In the past I would think, "Well, I didn't get up early like I planned, Oh well." But I can't do that anymore. I have to own that I am not a morning person and find another time of day to exercise and stop telling myself I don't have time.

I am so looking forward to my day off tomorrow even though it's full of housework and errands. At least I can do things for my family and myself without having to stress about that one thing. I am however looking forward to the next 6 weeks, ironically.