P90X - Day19 - Improving!

Today was a good day!  I skipped Yoga and went to legs and back instead.  (I'm gonna do yoga tomorrow.)  I felt great during the workout though.  I felt like I improved a little bit on almost every exercise.  

I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually going to finish the whole program though.  Now that the weather is getting nicer I might just start running instead.  I wouldn't mind doing both at the same time, but I don't think I have time for that.  Maybe I'll alternate days or something.  That would be good in a cross-training perspective.  It might cut down on some of the over-use injuries.  

Next week is the recovery week.  My goal is to recover :)

P90X - Day 18 - Pre-workout workout

We recently received a new-to-us washer and dryer that are newer than what we're currently using.  They've been sitting in the garage for a couple weeks now while I procrastinated hauling them down to the basement and hauling the older ones up to the garage.  Today was the day.  I felt ambitious so I got out the two-wheeled dolly and went to work.  After a couple hours of shuffling around large appliances it was time for my real workout.

I did arms and shoulders today.  It was a good workout.  I'm starting to get the correct resistance and reps figured out for each of the lifts.  I bumped up the resistance tonight because the past two weeks my reps were too high.  My shoulders will thank me later.

Oh yeah, and I just figured out that this is really P91X.  7 days a week times 13 weeks equals 91, correct?  WTF?

P90X - Day 14 - Feelin' Good

Second day of Kenpo today.  I am feeling good!  I don't know if it's the Kenpo, or the workouts leading up to today, but I seem to have a lot of energy on Kenpo days.  I think after the 90 days of this is done I'll continue to do some fighting style workouts.  I've read a little about Krav Maga Tai Chi Karate Muay Tai, etc, etc.  I haven't picked one to pursue yet, but I think I'm going to look into it a little more.  I studied Karate when I was younger, but haven't touched it in years.

Goals:  I haven't been able to come up with a goal for this workout.  Maybe i'll look into some other fighting techniques and come up with my own workout in phase two.  I also thought about buying a heavy bag to use with this workout  I think I would get a better workout if I had something to hit.

P90X - Day 13 - Wow.

This must just be one of those workouts that really gets to me.  Today was the second time doing legs and back.  Last week I hit a wall halfway through and this week I started running out of gas again.  I did make it all the way through the workout today and only paused the video once.  I felt pretty good about that.  I wasn't able to do all of the wall sits that I was supposed to though.  Man, those things kill me.  Also, I remember being much better at pull-ups that I'm showing through this P90X video.  I guess it's been a while since I did many pull-ups.

The feeling that I get from this workout is different from the others.  Most of the others give me muscle soreness and wear me out.  This one makes me feel like I just have no energy left.

It's late and I just finished this workout.  I'm drinking my protein and water, but I feel like I should eat something too.  I already brushed my teeth and I'm feeling too lazy to go get something though.  Ugh.  Hopefully I'm not more tired tomorrow because I didn't eat anything after this workout.

Goals:  Next week I want to do at least as many pull-ups as today, and get through at least 3/4 of the single-leg wall sits without standing up.

P90X - Day 12 - Yoga for - ev - er

My wife joined me for yoga today.  It's always fun to have someone to work out with.  That part was great today.  It makes the workout more enjoyable when you can talk to someone instead of focusing on the pain that you're putting yourself through.

The part of the workout that I didn't enjoy today was that this yoga workout goes on forever.  I think it's an hour and a half long. Ugh!  I think I could handle an hour and a half, but there is a bunch of stuff mixed in, that just doesn't seem like it's doing a whole lot for me.  I just had an idea.  I think I might take the video and edit out all of the stuff that I don't think is worth while.  I could condense it down to one hour.  I would get my workout done faster and only do the exercises that I feel like are helping me out.  I love this idea!  (I literally came up with this as I was typing.)

Goal for next week:  Edit out all the crap that I don't want to do in the yoga video.

P90X - Day 11 - (not) Feeling the crunch

I was supposed to to arms and shoulders as well as Ab Ripper X today.  I also needed to do some homework and put in a full day of work as well.  I decided that I didn't have time to to Ab Ripper.  I really am going to start doing Ab Ripper in the mornings on the days that it is part of my workout.  That should make me feel like my workout isn't taking up as much time as it really is.

Day 11 I upped the weight / resistance from what I used last week.  That in itself made me feel good.  For some of the exercises today it's kind of a pain in the arse to use the bands as opposed to free weights.  I wish I had the money to throw at some nice adjustable weights like these SelectTech weights.  They've been on my wish list for a long time, but I keep deciding that frivolous things like food and car payments are more important.  ;)

P90X - Day 10 - non rest day

Since I move my rest day to Wednesday today was "rest".  I didn't really feel like it was a rest day.  I had class today so I was busy from 6AM till 9PM.  Ugh.  In the past few days I haven't followed my diet perfectly.  Most notable was the pizza night.  In general I feel like I am eating healthier though.