Back it up back it up let's begin...

Whoa welcome back everyone. Can't believe how crazy February has been with all our traveling. It's been super hard trying to coordinate our morning workouts together - we fit them in when we can get them in.  Example yesterday: one of us was traveling back from New orleans (sef) so Sariah did an outdoor run...later that night Sef taught two dance classes back to back.  Sometimes we just have to own up to making sure we personally stay on track. We could have easily just given ourselves ANOTHER day off.

This morning we woke up and did our back and biceps workout on P90x.   As far as fitting in the P90x into our schedules as it is - as long as we get a workout in (whether its the scheduled P90x or a NTC substitute)  we just pick up where we left off.  It's all about being flexible when you have to be - just as long as we get it in.

Sariah will be heading off to LA for the second half of this week so we hope to have some guest posts from her on the road (She's bringing dvds!) and Sef will be holding down the fort with a few running posts as she starts to gear up for 1/2 marathon training.

Anyhow - we missed you guys!

P.S. anyone tried TurboFire?  we're thinking of doing that next after P90x. let us know your experience with it!

PPS: note to sef: do not put thumb over mic - sorry for the muffled voices in the beginning!

Day 33: Run it out with legs and back

Even with NYC getting hit with an ice storm this morning, we can't cry snow day (those lucky kids!) for our workout. We hit the gym even earlier this morning and start off with a 1 mile jog-turned-run on the treadmill. Now we run whenever we do our outdoor workouts and it's fine - we're totally sweating and all- but it just seems extra long and hard whenever we have to get on the dreadmill. We jump off and right into our legs and back workout. Since we did focus on our back yesterday we substituted all the back exercises with reverse crunches and suspended knee lifts. All-in-all feeling good afterwards. This S&S squad thinks we may have to make that 1 mile run part of our usual warmup. No pain no gain!

Day 32: Back it up Back it up

We're back with Phase 2 Baby! Over the weekend, Sariah did some friend birthday celebratin while I jetted down to Florida for some R&R with my dad and my little pup, Dallas.

Sariah before she hits up the party!

Before heading to Drynk Soho in Tampa

With my lil' one, Dallas

Because of lack of sleep from both our parts we skipped Monday and jumped back in the gym for week 5. Today's workout? We didn't know there was so many variations of a bicep curl but we did a ton of them. For pull/chin ups we got on the machines for lat pull downs while near the end of the workout, I finally attempts a few pull ups.. a few and pushed out 5. We wrap it up with ab ripper X and get day 32 in our books.

P90x Day 19: Back it up

Legs and back today. We are totally turning into old ladies - sleep is so important people!!! We somehow managed to get up, have a half cup of coffee and make our way to the gym for legs and back. We stepped it up again in S&S fashion and used a bosu for some of our lunges and squats. We added weights to our back raises or back extensions as they're also called. Example randomly found on youtube here:



Heheheh - we do about 20-25 of these in lieu of chinups. We alternate with lateral pull-downs and hanging knee raises. There's no chair (high enough) or bands in the gym to help us do an assisted chinup. However, we'll get some for phase 2 don't you worry :)

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Anyhow, what workout did you do or have planned for today? leave us a comment!

Recovery day: Shoulders and back

Funny how our shoulders and back workout was a "recovery" day for us considering we were up and on our feet for 12 hours straight on Sunday for Sariah's video shoot for "All about sex" We slept in but didn't cheat! We were at the gym at 10:45pm for our workout! Will be posting some sneak peeks from the set ASAP... but otherwise enjoy!

It's 12am - do you know where your kids are?

This is how you get it in - despite being 11p, tired and sick in bed for most of the day, we still drag ourselves down and get a quick 40 min chest and back in and ab ripper x.  somehow the gym felt like a club or maybe we were just delirious from it being so late but it was jamming in there! so excuse our silliness lol - take that in your dessert and eat it!

Snowed in but not snoring! Still on the grind

Happy Snow day! We got hit with a big storm today - not big enough to warrant staying home (boooo) but enough to keep us indoors and off the paths. What happened to us yesterday you ask? Hmn...first I (sef) overslept :) I snoozed my 6am alarm and next thing I know its 730. When I went to hit up Sariah (who did mssg me at 620a) she was knocked out then. LOL. SOOO considering we've been at it for more than 7 days straight, we listened to our bodies and gave ourselves a rest day. We're back at it this morning with Legs and Back. We amped up the workout today by holding 5lb weights during all the lunge exercises and for chinups we subbed in lat pull down and rows. We finished up with ab ripper X.

We had to shuffle our P90 schedule around due to us working out our shoulders and arms on sunday with Sariah's old trainer, Aryeh, hence a chest and back workout on monday. In general- we've modified our P90 schedule anyhow because we like Sundays for Yoga (because a: though super challenging, it's like stretching to us and b: it's just a nice way to end the week) and we've subbed the stretch/rest day for cardio only because we have immediate short term goals project we have to get ready for like Sariah shooting her music video (woo woo!). so ignore the video day numbering labels - i get all mixed up when referring to our google doc which is numbered differently. we started on jan 1 so obviously it's day 12 today (duh!)

For phase 1 our schedule is something like this:

Monday: Shoulders & Arms
Tues: Cardio or rest
Wed: Legs & Back
Thurs: Kenpo
Fri: chest and back
Sat: Plyometrics
Sun: Yoga/stretch

For a P90 worksheet, we've been using this as our guide which is nice b/c it lists all the exercises and tracks the reps and weights of most workouts so that we don't need to use the video.

Speaking of video, You'll have to ignore our ghetto video blog today - I'm using different tools so I didn't get to give it the pizzazz that it normally has. But I had fun and threw in some pictures and a different intro song. The intro song is "Fame" by Lady Gaga and the outro song is Sariah's next release - "All About Sex"

Until next time!
S&S

S&S Day 9: Chest and Back

Pushup central today with chest and back on P90x. Considering we worked out yesterday we went a little light today and scaled back on reps and weight. Regardless of that we still were burning and sweating during this workout. We did all the pushups on our knees rather than toes since we really tried to do every pushup correctly - especially the more difficult ones like the diamond push-up and the military push-up. since we were pressed for time we are saving ab ripper for tonight. And tomorrow its onto cardio. *sigh* maybe outdoor again? we'll see. how did your weekend workouts go?