Round 3 Week 3 P90X
Sunday: One on One with Tony: PlyoLegs
Monday: P90X Chest & Back + Hip Hop Abs Intro & Bike

What a weekend -- started out a little lackluster, then just built up steam through early this morning... Friday night, decided to stay up till 1 a.m. Sat. playing Civilization Revolution on the trusy 360. Awesome strategy game, start with a settler and some brutes in the year 0 basically, and build up your country through the 1900's and into the space age of 2050 or so. As you can imagine, a 4-6 hour game isn't out of the question.

Thus... moved my rest day to Saturday for the first time. Slept in a little, then decided to really lay back and see The Dark Knight @ matinee.

I was completely blown away by Heath Ledger (http://www.esquire.com/features/heath-ledger-last-days) as The Joker. He had that role down cold in a whole new way. Sure, Jack Nicholson was great in his comic-book take from the early days -- but Heath = the dark, crazy, over-the-top evil in a "I understand why he's insane" way of today. I'm glad it broke all kinds of records, and I'd be shocked if Heath did win all kinds of awards post-leaving us much, much too early.

Sunday I woke up with tons of energy and hit One on One with Tony Horton: PlyoLegs. There were several crazy new moves that took things to the next level, and a lot of the usual moves mixed in there for the standard burny burn in the legs.

He mixed up the whole hour by turning the whole affair into an intervals routine as well, so three solid things going on -- and even a new Groucho Walk that will turn you into a crazy Sumo Groucho with your feet high in the air. (See photo top of this post... crazy-good!)

My heart rate was in the zone for longer than even the Plus routines, and it was refreshing to pretend that I really was one on one with Tony -- working out in his personal workout room in his house in the LA hills (can see downtown not that far away down the hill from his awesome abode) and seeing him dial down the chattiness was interesting. Honestly, I kind of missed him being super-sonic up and silly -- but he compenstated for it by kicking OUR butts.

All in all, I'm impressed by the idea and simple but effective execution of One on One and am anxious to get my fists on the next 11!

Mowed the lawn on the super-humid Sunday and managed to lose about three pounds in pure crazy sweat. Made sure to crank down 16 oz. of water before, during, and after -- always a good idea.



Onward to Monday (today), starting off the week with Chest & Back -- managed to do 10 reps unassisted pull-ups during round one, then got the six on the second -- ack. Ok, it's not about the numbers... right? I'll blame it on eating a smaller bar before the workout, and all the stuff I did on Sunday. There, I feel a... little... better. Will keep bringing it!

Looks like we may hit 100 today -- yikes. Tomorrow as well, then a much nicer end to our NC week...