June 7, 2010

Week four of p90x.

Last week was a disaster. I did about 3 of the exercises I was supposed to do and none of the rest. So I am doing an extra week in this phase and then taking next week as the rest week.

If you don't know what p90x looks like, I'll give you a quick rundown.

Basically, there are 3 workout phases. Each one is a month and in each month there are 3 weeks of exercises and 1 week of rest. Each phase is different but the 1st phase (the one I'm in) looks like this:

Week 1-3:
Day 1: Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X
Day 2: Plyometrics
Day 3: Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X
Day 4: Yoga
Day 5: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
Day 6: Kenpo
Day 7: Rest or stretch

Week 4 (rest week):
Day 1: Yoga
Day 2: Core Synergistics
Day 3: Kenpo
Day 4: Stretch
Day 5: Core Synergistics
Day 6: Yoga
Day 7: Rest or stretch

It's a tough program. Whats most tough about it isn't the workouts as much as it is the amount of time and energy p90x consumes. You're spending about an hour and a half a day exercising. Which is fine if you don't have much going on. But its real easy to let life get in the way and forget your goals. As I discovered last week.

The hardest workout is Plyometrics. You jump for an hour. It's kinda fun but the first time I did it I had a lot of trouble walking the next day. The longest is Yoga and even though I've done a lot of Yoga in my life, this is by far the hardest session. The easiest and funnest is Kenpo. Lots of kicks and punches and blocks. The stretching part is actually a full hour long session. I haven't done it yet, since by the 7th day I'm really looking forward to being lazy.

So I'm on week four, adding an extra week to this phase. My goal is to do the whole week of exercises, plus add in one extra session of Kenpo (today or Wednesday) and an extra session of Yoga. We'll see how that goes.

At the end of the rest week I'll post my before pictures and then pictures for the end of phase 1.