Shoulders and Arms

What happened??! I lost a day! How weird, that it FELT like I got a workout in, but I had actually missed a day! I think it's because I'd been doing a bunch of geocaching around town both today and yesterday... and somehow in the middle of all that, it felt like I got a workout in but I hadn't. I actually missed a WOWY!

Oh well... but that's okay. So today I did yesterday's Shoulders and Arms, and now I'm going to be off track for a week anyway. I hope to get a bunch of hiking done, but no WOWY and probably no X. I might drag some DVDs with me, but I won't have the equipment to do X-work. I'll get some workouts done though. Of some kind.

Anyway, I tried to wrap my 1.5 ankle weights around the handles of my dumbbells to make them heavier (because the 10-lb ones are the heaviest I have) but then it made it hard to grab. I think I ended up working my HANDS and forearms more- in just trying to hang on... so I chucked that bright idea. I do need some bigger weights though.

But the numbers:
Alternating shoulder presses: 15/10lb; 15/11.5 lb
In & out bicep curls: 16/10lb; 16/11.5 lb
Two-arm tricep kickbacks: 15/8lb; 15/8lb
Deep swimmer's press: 15/11.5 lb; 15/10
Full supination curls: 15/11.5 lb; 18/10
Chair dips: 18/24
Upright rows: 15/10; 15/10
Static arm curls: 16/10; 16/10
Flip-grip tricep kickbacks: 14/8; 17/5
Two-angle shoulder flys: 18/5; 16/5
Crouching Cohen curls: 13/8; 13/8 (but my legs burn more than my arms do!)
Lying-down tricep extensions: 15/8; 15/8
In & out straight-arm shoulder flys: 12/8; 13/8
Congdon curls: 15/10; 15/10
Side-tri-rise: 16r/18l; 18r/17l

Felt good to be able to 'up' the weights, but I really do need something other than putting ankle weights onto dumbbells!! But the plain 10-lb weights aren't enough for some of those moves now. I'm also excited that I can do at least 12 shoulder flys with 8-lb weights!!! I remember when I first did shoulder flys way back when I started my first P90 Sculpt 1-2... I was HURTING to even get 8 reps with 5-b weights. So that part has definitely improved! And most of the improvement has come with P90X, not with P90. I love it that I'm getting some SHOULDERS now- not just being wide-shouldered (I've always had that) but to have that TONED shoulder with the deltoid muscle and everything. :-) Cool beans.

Anyway, I didn't get ARX in afterwards. I have to keep on packing and finishing laundry. Plus all those Mason Twists this week... I think I'm still doing okay on the ab-work.

I just hope that I won't lose too much of what I've accomplished by taking off for a week. I'll try to keep some workouts in there... maybe some TJ in a hotel room?? Who knows?!?