Friday, April 13, 2012
Another hard day
I tell you what, it feels like I am doing P90X for the first time all over again. I woke up for my Legs and Back workout and run and I was still sore from the workout on Wednesday. Like I said last night I hope for that to go away after a round of Stretch X tomorrow and another round of Bob Harper Abs. I want to be able to get the workouts (all 80 minutes worth) in before the family starts to wake up so that I can have breakfast with them then make a quick run to Lowes for some mulch and stain for the deck. I am trying to get the deck done before class so I only have to workout tomorrow then I can do whatever I want for the rest of the day on Sunday. Well, back to today, although I am sore from Wednesday still it is not as bad as it was yesterday so I am just going to keep pumping protein in me and drink my recoup so the repairs of my muscle tissue finish and I gain the more mass. I prepared for this mornings workout by looking at my workout sheet from the last round but I made a little mistake. You do the legs and back so often you actually have more than one sheet filled out when you finish P90X and I looked at the wrong one. This isn't all that big of a deal because most of the exercises in this workout are body weight workouts anyways. There are a few sets that I will be adding resistance to next week and a few moves will I will be holding light weights to increase the intensity on them as well. I was going to do that this morning but I forgot to grab the weights out of the bedroom and I didn't want to go back in and wake Whitney so I went without them. There were two times in the workout (both after pull ups) that I was feeling a little sick from the intensity I was bringing but I was lucky enough to have the feeling pass quickly. When I went on the message boards for Beachbody I saw that someone else did the same workout today and even added up the number of pull ups the did so I figured I would do the same. As it turns out I did a little over 80 total pull ups in an hour. Don't take it the wrong way most of them were done with the assistance of a chair but I did do the most without a chair as I have ever done in the past so I am excited about that. I am sure that will come at the price of a sore back tomorrow. When I finished the workout I took a minute to catch my breath and left the house for my run. I figured it was going to be a hard one when I was having trouble just waking down the couple of steps out the front door, but hey I went ahead and went for it. I decided to only go for one lap because my legs were screaming at me when I started. This gave me a new goal for next weeks workout, finish the workout then do the planned two laps no matter how long it takes. Sounds easy enough but since I will be adding weight and resistance to about a third of the exercises I am thinkingit is going to be a challenge but I will do it. What's funny is that as I sit here now my legs are starting to get sore so by the time bed time rolls around I bet I will walking like an old man. Keep an eye on the blog to see how my first "intense" back and biceps goes on Sunday, how my legs feel tomorrow, and if I got the two laps done next Friday.
Labels:
fitness,
Legs and Back,
lower body workout,
nutrition,
P90X,
running
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