P90X: 11 & 12
Yesterday was yoga. I do like the yoga day, even though it tends to kick my ass around the block. The moving poses part turns me into an oversaturated sponge, the balance poses make me swear and stumble sideways, and the "yoga belly" part burns like a bucket of hot wings... and yet I still like it. I think it could use to be about 20 minutes shorter (it's a 90 minute workout) but at least I don't dread yoga days.
Legs and shoulders day = dread. That was today. It's stuff like lunges and wall squats, mixed with various pull=ups, and there's just enough downtime between exercises to write down numbers and then go into the next. Today the first round I did the pull-ups with the step stool, but after that I decided to try the weight band pull-down variant. I think it was a wise choice. On the stool, most of the work was done by my leg (hanging down, using one leg on the stool to raise and lower myself to supplement the tiny bit my arms can do); with the band, you do a one-leg kneel (think genuflect) and pull down. I tied the weight band in a hitch over the pull-up bar, to shorten it a little and add to the resistance, and I think it worked really well. I was actually working my shoulders, instead of my leg and bicep and maybe some shoulder muscles.
My only concern is that I did do a lot of work in the shoulders and (what I may be making up) my lower trapezius muscles (think between the lower halves of your shoulder blades) and it feels like they're locking up when I do things like turn my upper torso backwards (like you do when backing out of a driveway) and I don't want to damage myself more than is expected from a workout. I think tomorrow will tell.