P90X Week 1: Complete!
Just finished Week 1 of P90X – and I did not miss a single day! My weight was up and down all week, which is pretty normal, but ended today with 251,8.
A quick review of the routines in this week:
Chest & Back
This was painful. Lots and lots of pushups and chin ups. I have lots of room for improvement here.
Plyometrics
This is even more painful. Think super high intensity jumping jacks. Everything was high impact. I was feeling pain in my legs for another 48 hours… walking around like Frankenstein!
Shoulders & Arms
Again, a ton of chin ups. Since I am only able to do one unassisted chinup, I do these with a bar stool, with one of my feet on the lowest possible rung. This offsets enough of my body weight, for my upper body to complete 10-18ish reps.
Yoga X
I never want to do Yoga X again. I have never done Yoga at all before… so its pretty intense to jump right in to extreme Yoga. I had “okay” participation with this routine, but am not nearly flexible enough to do the whole thing. Might look into purchasing some “yoga blocks” for the next time.
Legs & Back
Lots of squats, pullups, and other crazy exercises. My participation was okay for this as well, except for the crazy wall squats. Normal wall squats are one thing, but alternating single leg wall squats are just INSANE! (As in, can not do it for more than 10 seconds :( )
Kenpo X
I think this was my favorite the whole week… think Karate Exercise. Fairly high intensity, kicking, punching, blocking in various positions. Worked up a GREAT sweet.
X Stretch
The last day of the week you have a choice: Do X Stretch, or take a day of rest. A day of rest, really? No thanks! X Stretch was rather intense as well. Basically all the warmups you did for each day of the week, but pushing yourself a little further. For each stretch of each muscle group, you just put yourself a little more outside of your comfort/pain zone.
Well, tomorrow starts the fun all over again!
