P90X: Phase II Week 1
Week one of the Phase II part came and it kicked our butts. It feels great to be worked over again. The new exercise programs are good and it took some time to adjust to the new workouts. The first time around we are always like deer in headlights, so we don’t get in as hard of a workout like we want to, but no biggie.
Chest, Shoulders & Triceps: This was a challenge because of how difficult the type of push-ups you had to do. At one point you had to do one handed push-ups. I can’t do them yet. Yeah, nothing like trying only to watch your face get introduced to the floor real fast. My shoulders were dead for two days after the workout. I need to jump up in weights wehn it comes to my triceps workout. I’m going heavy enough and that sucks. I feel like my arms are lagging cause I’m not pshing my triceps hard enough.
AbRipperX:My core is getting so much stronger.I can go through every exercise now without stopping or coming up short on reps.My balance is strong as well. I don’t fall over during the leap frog crunches. The only day I struggle with the AbRipper is after we do the back and leg program. My legs are tired and that makes it tough to do half of the ab exercises. Thats fine with me cause I use that to push myself even harder in hopes that it makes my core stronger for the next time I do the AbRipper.
Back/Biceps: I love this workout. You do back to back arm exercises in this workout and man, what a great burn and pump.It works my arms and they arm dead after this workout. I tried too hard to go with heavy weights and that backfired by the time I got to the last set of arm exercises. The back exercises are good as well. I felt it in my back the next morning.
Polymetrics: Oh polymetrics how I missed you. I love this workout. This time around my wife challenged each other to highest rep counts. Do to a recount no real winner was declared. Ha- she beat me, damn those leg kicks over the chair!
Legs/Back:This is the same program from Phase I.I never or rarely used the pull-up bar for this. I like to change it up and use the resistance bands on my back. My legs are so freak’n sore from this. It din’t feel like I pushed myself that hard, but today my legs tell me differently.
Phas II Diet:This phase allows you to have more carbs, but I haven’t made that big of a jump into eating more carbs. I have increased my amount a little, but not much. I just seem to be sensative to carbs. I’ve noticed that since I have added more carbs my body goes through this craving for food. Like bad food. I find it odd since I don’t eat bad food. I didn’t have this craving in the first phase. I like to have my carbs at the start of the day and no carbs (or very little) after lunch. I haven’t bonked during the workouts (which we do at night), so I think it’s working out just fine. I love the meatloaf meal in here. It is yummy.
I have become a true believer that the true success in losing weight and becoming healthy starts and ends with your diet. You can workout all you want, take all the fat burning pills you want, but if your diet is crappy your body will be crappy. I see the results every day and I know it’s because of the diet. Yes, working out is important as are the supplements, but I think the diet is twice as important as the others. Your body needs that healthy food in order to be healthy. Sure you don’t have to be perfect, but you can’t "cheat" (I hate that word. I rather use treat) everyday or every other day. It just doesn’t work that way. Just don’t all stupid like I did and stres yourself out about what you eat. That just drains on you and you start to lose focus as to why you are doing it. It becomes lees fun. Try the diet. It’s only for 90 days. Is three months really that much compared to a whole year or your whole life? Well, gotta go. For those who took time out of their lives to read about mine- THANK YOU SO MUCH!
