Day 37 - Shoulders, Arms and ARX

Okay everyone.. it is obvious that I'm wayyyyyy behind on keeping up with the blog. I did knock out this routine in great fashion last week on Wednesday. I increased all the weights and I had great energy from start to finish. This is always my easiest workout because it is the areas where I am the strongest, so my heart rate doesn't get pushed much on this one. For the first time in a long time, I followed up the routine with the ARX. Because I haven't done it as much as I should have, it kicked my butt!!


So now.. I will catch you up with what has happened since Day 37.....

NOTHING!!! Nothing at all and I truly must apologize to all of you that are following me. Real life happened and I got caught up, so I am going to repeat this week once again.

On Last Thursday, my favorite music group, The Foreign Exchange, came to Baltimore and I met my cousin (my big brother) up there for a GREAT TIME!! Just to be in the presence of that great music and my family... we partied hard that night!! So hard in fact that Angel was hot with me cause I decided not to drive home cause my brother and I both had tipped the elbow a bit too much to make it home safely and we certainly didn't want to endanger any one else. I can not express to you how GREAT that evening was... if you haven't checked out that link on the blog for The Foreign Exchange, please treat yourself to it!!!

Anyway... that led to Friday being a bust because I did have to get up early to drive back home to get my son to school in the morning and make it to work. By the time I got off, I was barely able to keep my eyes open, so I went to bed. Saturday morning, me and the fam packed up to go to Omaha for a surprise birthday party for my mother in law. Needless to say, I had to get up early to pack up for that trip and with all of the excitement dealing with the party, when it was over, Angel and I went out with some friends.. No workout on that day either. So as you can see, the rest of the weekend followed this pattern on into yesterday when we flew home. By the time we got home, I was tired again, but we couldn't sleep. So since I didn't get any sleep, I couldn't get up at 5:45 to do the workout this AM and I have bowling this evening after work. See the domino effect here??

So... I've decided that starting tomorrow, I will finish out the week with cardio HIIT, stretching and Abs. I will restart week 6 again next Monday. I don't feel like playing catch up this week as I have a meeting with my partner tomorrow night, football practice on Thur and Friday night, 2 football games to attend on Sat (one in MD and the other in VA) plus trick or treating... time is not my friend this week. The only bright side to all of this is that I didn't eat excessively bad throughout all of this (with the exception of the love affair I had with the strawberry cream cheese cake at the party).

So.. this will all rewind back... I will do some cardio tonight after bowling (or maybe before if I can get out of work a little early today.. we'll see). I guess the theme for this round is Modify, Modify and Modify some more!! But hey.. I'm staying active, so it is all a positive!! :-)

Thanks again to all of you that are following me... I commit to myself and you guys that I will complete this cycle and keep on bringing it!!