Day 3

For those of you paying attention, day 3 is a day late.  I am brutally sick.  I went to bed around midnight Tuesday night, and was done for.  I was completely unable to get out of bed until about 2:30, sat on the couch in a motionless heap for about an hour, and returned to bed by 3:30, then managed to oversleep for work today by 2 hours.  I did not eat, barely drank, and accomplished nothing.  I looked at the clock several times throughout the day and tried to convince myself to get up and find the energy to work out....  but simply couldn't.
I did make it to work today, but needed my boss to ride with me to get through it.  BUT, I did come home and work out.  For one thing, I am commited to this.  For another, I find working out boosts my energy level.  I understood going into it that this program is not for sissys, and I am no sissy.  I am currently planning to work out on Sunday, which was otherwise scheduled as a rest day.

So today's workout was Shoulders & Arms + Ab Ripper X.

I did make it through the entire workout.  However, "making it through" means I got to the end, but isn't indicative of how well. 
Similar to Day 1 (Chest & Back), I felt like my form was questionable in many cases, simply bad in some others. but very good in some as well.  I did pause/rewind several times, but again feel like my next time through will be better.
My energy has also been really low from being sick.  But I knew that before I started. My goal when I began today's workout was completion moreso than an all-star performance.  Sometimes showing up and pushing play is the most important part.

So again, I'm not sure I got the most effective workout, but my arms and my abs are sore.  So I think I did something right.  I am using resistance bands instead of weights, primarily because of the radically lower cost.  However, when buying them, I bought the ones the program pointed me towards.  Those, however, turned out to be the "heavy" set, representing 40, 45, & 50 pounds weights.  So some of the excercises were nearly impossible.  At least one I stepped all the way down to a set of 8# dumbells, the heaviest set I had.

I got through Ab Ripper X with about 75% effectiveness, meaning that I simply fatigued before the set was up.

Today's Shoulders & Arms reps:  (all using green band unless noted.  Each excercise repeats)

Alternating shoulder presses: 8/8
In & Out Bicep Curls: 9/13
Two-Arm Tricep Kickbacks: -/11 (trouble figuring out first set)
Deep Swimmer's Presses: 7/7
Full Supination Concentration Curls:  7/9
Chair Dips: 13/13
Upright Rows: 10/10
Static Arm Curls:  16/13
Flip Grip Twist Tricep Kickbacks: 10/9
Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Flys: 10/12
Crouching Cohen Curls: 11/8
Lying Down Tricep Extensions: 4/3
In & Out Straight Arm Shoulder Flys: 6/10
Congdon Curls: 12/12
Side Tri-Rises:  10 & 10/10 & 9 (right/left)

Tomorrow:  Yoga