Still alive after week 5!!

It's been a week since I switched from morning workouts to evenings and I'm wondering why the hell I didn't do that earlier. I've always been an insomniac night-owl anyway. Unfortunately, the wife has given up on accompanying me after 3 1/2 weeks. She took a business trip to OKC for a week and didn't get to (or didn't want to... I'm not really sure) work out down there. After that, she never picked it back up. I'm trying to get her back into it, but so far to no avail.

As I stated in my previous posts, recovery week (week 4) was no walk in the park, but at least I wasn't doing any heavy lifting of weights. Well week 5 threw me back into full force with some intense workouts:

Monday: Chest, Shoulders & Triceps plus Ab Ripper X
Oooohhh the burn again! Some of the workouts include:

• Slow-Motion 3-in-1 Push-Ups - Start in wide push-up position, lower your body slowly (count 4 seconds) to the floor, then raise slowly in 4 counts again. Do the same in both military and standard push-up positions. I thought I was getting much better at pushups until I did these! Sheesh!
• In & Out Shoulder fly
• Chair Dips
• Plange Push-Ups - Just like military push-ups except your hands are further back next to your rib cage with your fingers pointing out. You then round your back at the top of the push-up.
• Pike Press - Your toes and hands are on the floor and your butt is up in the air so your whole body is in the shape of a "V". Keeping that form, you do a push-up so the crown of your head taps the floor (or at least mine does.)
• Scarecrow - Holding weights in each hand, you raise your arms so they're parallel to the floor but your elbows are bent at 90 degrees. Keeping elbows, wrists, and upper arms locked, you rotate the weights up and back as far as you can. Slowly return the weights to starting position and repeat. It reminds me of Beavis & Butthead when one of them says, "I have TP for my bunghole!!" I can't remember which one.
• Two-Twitch Speed Push-Ups - Do 4 fast and 3 slow standard push-ups. Repeat as many times as you can.
• Side-to-Side Push-Ups - Wide-feet, wide-hands position, you walk both hands to the right, perform a push-up, then walk both hands to the left and repeat.
• One-Arm Push-Up - I CANNOT DO ANY OF THESE!!! Not even on my friggin' knees! It makes me sick that I can't even squeeze one piss-poor formed one out, but I sure can't. Maybe next week. Frustrating!
• Clap Push-Ups - You clap your hands in mid-air between push-ups.
• One-Arm Balance Push-Ups - You perform a push-up, then twist up with one arm to perform a one-arm balance (like Jesus on the cross but with one hand on the ground and the other skyward.) You come back down and do another push-up, then another one-arm balance on the other side.

There's more... lots of flys, rows, presses and other stuff too. What's missing from this workout is curls and pull-ups, but there's every other move under the sun!

Tuesday - Plyometrics
Wednesday - Back & Biceps, Ab Ripper X
Thursday - Yoga X
Friday - Legs & Back, Ab Ripper X
Saturday - Kenpo X - I had a tougher time and didn't enjoy this as much as I did two weeks ago when my son did it with me :(
Sunday - Rest or X Stretch (I rested... again)

Next week is a repeat of the above. My goal... do a one-arm pushup!