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Carol on February 13th, 2010   Tags: , 1 Comment »

I did end up running on the treadmill the other day.   I did the Cheetah Fast Runnerval treadmill workout.   In my peak Ironman fitness days, I could get throught that workout – just barely, mind you, but I could!    This time, I was a total wuss and had to quit early.  This is what [...]

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Carol on February 3rd, 2010   Tags: , , , 15 Comments »

I am not a morning workout person. My alarm went off at 5:45 am today. My plan was to swim with the 6:30 master’s group at the Chapel Hill pool. I hit the snooze button, and didn’t get up until 6am. Then I dragged my feet getting my act together. I was finally heading out [...]

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Carol on January 30th, 2010   Tags: 1 Comment »

One of my twitter buddies, @rburns42 , described P90X as “the hurt cave”. I am in the hurt cave right now. My legs are so trashed I am doing ‘the marathon shuffle’ all around my house.  If you don’t know what that means, watch this Youtube.   I had to ask my daughter to pick something [...]

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Carol on January 29th, 2010   Tags: , 6 Comments »

I did the P90X Plyometrics workout tonight.   I’d had a busy day and didn’t really feel like working out.  But I had eaten some cookies and felt I needed to burn them off, so I pulled out my P90X workout guide.   Plyometrics was the next one on my workout list, so I got my ass [...]

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Carol on January 28th, 2010   Tags: 8 Comments »

This morning I set my alarm to get up early and do the P90X Ab Ripper Xtreme workout.   It’s just 16 minutes, no big deal, right? It starts out with Tony Horton saying something like “this is not Abs 101.  This is Abs 349″.   Huh, wonder what he means by that? I tweeted “was hard [...]

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