Thursday, March 25, 2010

P90X Day 3 - Shoulders and Arms + Ab Ripper X


Well, well well. Something I got through pretty easy. Finally. Though I suspect it was only because I was using resistance bands, and not free weights. For many of the exercises I just didn't have enough weight. I think I may need to just write these down and go to the gym to do this workout next week.

One thing that that bring the pain was the Side Tri Rise.  Holy Jesus, those things kill your triceps...
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No problems with the dips.  The Shoulder flys did get hard around the 8th rep the second time around.  It wasn't easy, but compared to all the push ups and chin ups on Monday, and the Plyometrics yesterday, this was a welcome relief.  Sweated a ton, but didn't tweak anything, and felt good the next morning.  We'll see if I still feel that way after doing it with weights.  :)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

P90X - Day 2

Plyometrics, bitches!

See also: Knee pain

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Made it 32 minutes before my right knee made it clear he wasn't going to let me jump anymore. He's such a party pooper. In his defense I haven't done anything (even run) for more than 30 minutes other than walk or sit in front of an LCD of some variety or another. I rarely run more than 3 miles, and even 30 minutes is an easy pace. Usually doing it in 26-27 minutes, then a cool down. So I'm really pushing it with the Plyo.

Though I only made it through half way, it was a good workout. Heart rate was up, sweated plenty, and could feel everything. It's fun, too. Much more fun than push ups and chin ups. And the kids tried to doing it with me. Trevor pussed out early, but Audrey kept up the whole time I did (though she wasn't doing everything correctly, she was still trying.) That was a lot of fun, too.

My legs were very tight to start with, still feeling the effects of Monday night's fast mile on the suckmill. Left hammy and right knee were sore. The stretching/warmup helped a lot, but I think just wasn't ready to go very long.

Shoulders and Arms and AbRipperX tomorrow. I think Kristi will be going to the gym alone, as I want nothing to do with a treadmill right now.

Monday, March 22, 2010

P90X



Been using Facebook to rant/rave for awhile now. But it has some limitations that render it insufficient for this this type of post. So I'll keep any in-depth P90X stuff he on the blog.

Day 1 is in the books, and boy howdy do I feel emasculated. Started with Disc 01, Chest and Back. You can take a look at my data here. As I can only do 2-3 Chin Ups, I did all of those with the help of the chair. And I depended on it a lot the second half of the workout.

The push ups were killer. I've been doing 15-20 a day for a few months. Didn't expect that to be the hardest part. But by the second time around, I couldn't do a single rep. I was reduced to doing them from my knees. My arms were jelly. :(

Now, it certainly did help me for Ab Ripper X that I'd run a fast mile (7 minute) 2 hours earlier. By the second exercise, my hips wee killing me. I stuck it out, and did maybe 12-15 reps of everything (instead of 25). But not fun.

And yes, it does make me cringe to think I consider 7 minutes to be a fast mile, when my PR is 5:36. :)

It was hard, no doubt. Look forward to just making it though that doing the full reps. 90 days.


I'm off to have a nice glass of milk and a chunk of Chocolate.