Day 38 - CardioX, Back & Biceps, Ab Ripper X

Today was so much better and I don't know why. I tried to go to sleep early last night and my precious children decided they were going to fight their bedtime. I lay down at 8:30pm and fell asleep within 5 minutes, but I got woken up a few minutes later by giggling, laughing, loud thumps of little feet jumping out of bed, etc. I think I went into their room about 7 times before I finally gave up and went back downstairs. At that point, I was so mad, I decided to watch a few episodes of Penn & Teller's Bullshit to make me laugh. It worked, and an hour later. I ended up going to bed at about 11:30 and woke up a few times during the night. I didn't get enough sleep, but I was pretty pumped for CardioX today. Go figure.

I also found a program that can control my Canon Digital Rebel XT from the computer. It has some cool functions - one of which is the time lapse feature. I set it up and set the timer to snap a shot every twenty seconds while I worked out. It functioned great, but I didn't get a lot of great pics. Most of them snapped while I was transitioning, so it looks like I'm just standing there. Also, I didn't have a long enough USB to miniUSB cable, so the desk is in all of the shots. Here's some samples:

















Back and Biceps - This time it was a little different. I used my new dumbbells and it was a whole new workout. Doing curls with the bands was interesting and different and it really made the minor stabilizer muscles sore, but overall, I think it lacked the resistance to really stimulate the major muscles. The dumbbells did the trick. I wiped out my biceps tonight and it felt damned good in a bad way or damned bad in a good way. It was positive overall, so word it however you like. I only got through part of the Ab Ripper X routine because my wife called halfway through and asked me to meet her and the kids for dinner. I'll finish it up after Yoga tomorrow.