For the 43 today I took on one of my biggest challenges of all times – Pull-ups!!! Today all 3 of my boys participated!!!
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(that would be a total of 3 for Jordan!)
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(2 for Hunter – but he hasn’t been able to do them because of the broken wrist earlier in the fall)
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(Chris in his very first demo for me – 12 – way to go, Babe!!)
The only times I have ever been able to do real pull-ups are after I have gone through P90X and P90X2. It has been awhile since I have done either of those programs (slacker, here!!) so I had to do assisted pull-ups in order to get in 43 (or even 1!). I used a stool (I tried to use it minimally and not completely push off of it each time) to help.
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(I didn’t feel the need for you to watch all 43 of mine – it was painful and not pretty!)
Not gonna lie – even with the “cheat” this was a HARD 43!!! Clearly, I need to start trying to do pull-ups more often!
After the family pull-up event, I did another work-out: Turbo Jam 20 minute work-out. This is the first time in over 3 weeks that I have done any Turbo work-outs and even though I had to keep it low impact (see, Doc, I sort-of listen!) it was fun!!!
Yesterday after skating across a couple of icy parking lots, braving Wal-Mart (what was I thinking on that one?) and a marathon grocery shopping expedition, I came home to this:
And after a bit I looked outside and saw this lovely site:
I guess you never get to old for fun in the snow!!!
I did not choose to participate in the snow play – I am sort-of a complete hater of snow and cold weather!!! Instead, I had this as my treat for dealing with the madness of the shopping world:
This stuff is sooooo good!!! There is also a chocolate cake vodka – equally tasty.
Happy Saturday!!! I hope you don’t have any crazy Wal-Mart shopping to endure!
Kim