fitclubmom’s BodyBlog

This week is our P90X Recovery Week, and I am doing the happy dance! The only downside is that there are two days of Yoga X in the recovery week… Uggghhh!  This morning was the first day, and we do it again on Thursday.  And boy did I have a hard time completing it this morning.  I somehow strained the glute/hamstring tie-in muscle and it has really been bugging me the last couple of days.  So the stretching in Yoga really tested it this morning.  Although, I’m sure that it was good for the muscle to be stretched too.  The only thing that I got pissy about was not being able to do my kicks in KenpoX on Sunday.  I LOVE the KenpoX dvd… all of the punching, kicking, and yelling is right up my alley (yep, I’m vicious! lmao).  And my heart rate stays high because I really work hard through this workout (so does the hubby!).  And it really ticked me off that I couldn’t do the kick sequences.  Hopefully, the injury will heal this week.  So next week will will start Phase 3 (month three) of P90X… yippie-kai-yay! 

This weekend I posted a blog about how important music is to my workouts… the songs that I listen to can either make my workout mediocre or ferocious.  I prefer ‘freocious’ any day.  So I always take my own ipod to the gym when I do my workouts there.  And I am very picky about the music that I play.  I have several playlists depending on what my goal for that day is.  Is it a cardio day or a weight day or both?  With cardio, I do several types of cardio… I have steady state medium intensity, steady state high intensity, and HIIT (and once in a blue moon I will throw a steady state low instensity in to switch things up).  So I have different playlists for each of those cardio types.  Most of my weight lifting is done to, "angry" music (although I prefer to think of it as motivational music… it’s just that I like heavier hardcore music for weight lifting purposes).  So I had mentioned this weekend that I would start sharing some of my songs with you.  I love reading about what people have on their playlists.  I can usually find new music that way.

I am the type of person that "feels" the music as well as "hears" it.  Music is extremely powerful to me.  I can feel the beat and it resonates inside of me.  So, not only do I have my work out music, but I listen to music ALL the time.  And I really and truly like ALL kinds of music.  So every once in a while, I will throw in a song that I might not have in my work-out music library, but that I think people might enjoy.  Today, I am going to post one such song.  I don’t really have it in my workout playlist, because it doesn’t move me in that way.  But a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about "Choices", and how we have power of our own destiny.  This song is a wonderful song about how you can change your life… you just have to be willing to do it.  This is what I would call a HipHop/Rap song… and for those of you who don’t like HipHop or Rap… please give it a chance and just listen to it.  Open your mind.  You might find that you actually can like HipHop and/or Rap , or at least this particular song… it is a very powerful song.  It also helps to watch the video as you listen to the song because the video does a good job of showing what the song is about.  The song is called Dead and Gone by T.I. and Justin Timberlake.  Enjoy…

I tend to be very picky about what songs are on my ipod for my workouts.  I usually like "angry" music, because it helps me push myself pretty hard and gives me an edge.   But I get bored of hearing the same songs over and over, so I am always looking for new songs to put on my playlist.  However, there are a few songs that I tend to keep on all the time.  This song, is almost always on my warm-up playlist… it has a nice build-up to some of my heavier, hard-core workout songs.  It’s by Marty Casey and The Lovehammers and the song is called ‘Trees’ (The video is a little weird, but the song is good!)
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<strong /> Since I love finding new songs, I thought that I would start posting and sharing some of my favorites… and maybe you will like it enough to download it…