Day 1: P90X
Just finished the first day of P90X last night.We did the chest/back workout.It was pretty tough.My arms are sore and my shoulders are stiff. You rotate exercises. Chest first and back second.There are two rounds of it.The second round is the same exercises, but you have to do them for longer. By the time I got to the diamond push-ups my arms were weak and I could feel my dinner in the back of my throat. Excellent! I love being pushed like that. I got a pretty good pump in my chest from all the different exercises. That shocked me a little. I didn’t use the pull-up bar. Instead I used the resistant bands. I’ll work up to the bar soon. I was just getting a feel for the program. You can keep notes of how many push-ups you do. I don’t care about the numbers right now. I just want to finish it. I paused a couple of times during the various push-up routines. My goal is to complete each push-up exercise and never pause during the given time. After that, maybe I’ll count. I need to use the notesheet to log my weight usage. I could have gone heavy on some of the back exercises.
The diet/nutrition book is pretty cool. The book they give you is real easy to follow. It pretty much holds your hand through the 3 months you train. I’m in Level 2 of the Phase 1 based upon my weight. Actually, it’s not far off from what I eat now. The only difference is I’m actually exercising and lifting weights. Hence, I’ll be burning more calories than I did before. So, we’ll see how I react to that. We can’t afford to eat fish every other night, but thanks to this book it’s easy to figure the nutrional value for a substitue dinner. Thats means a lot of chicken for me. Oh-boy.
Two things we did last night that kind of hurt us was this: 1)We paused for 10 minutes during the workout to put our daughter to sleep.So, we were well rested and not as winded. I think if we were able to go through none stop we could burned more calories because we would have had to push ourselves harder. No biggie. 2)When we got done with the chest/back exercise we had to put our son to sleep (he worked out with us-he knocked out 18 push-ups and he is 4!). When we put him to sleep we drank our recovery drink and didn’t realise we were suppose to do the ab workout too. Considering we were pretty nauseated just from the first program we weren’t up to doing the ab workout after we just downed a shake. We were bummed, but we’ll attack it tomorrow.
In all, I really like this program. It’s hard, but it’s fun too!I’m gonna keep track of my progress, but I don’t have time to log it every day. I will get to it though. Oh-yeah, don’t buy their supplemental packages. Just google their nutritional value and buy stuff thats the same, but less expensive. You already have to invest good money into the food part and some exercise products. Do your homework and save money! Make sure you take your before pictures and do your measurments!Stay strong!
June 28, 2008 at 9:33 am
Thanks for the info! I’m considering P90X myself, but I’m a little worried about the cardio aspect since my knees give me trouble if I push ‘em too hard.
I’ll be interested to see how the program works for you!