Day 1:
P90x. The rumors are all true.
I honestly didn't know what to think about starting P90x. I've read alot of blogs about it, watched the infomercial, and thought about starting it for several weeks. I need to make a change and it's alot of work to get into the gym for some reason. Since my daughter is a bit older now I'm trying to get home as a reasonable time after work and spend some quality time. Because of this I'm not really as eager to leave work after a full day and rush to the gym and get home right as she's about to fall asleep.
Anyways, all that and the fact that I'm not happy with either my level of fitness or my current body image so I'm picking up P90x.
Day 1. The rumors are all true. It's hard, it's intense, and most of all it's something you can finish.
This workout was brutal. It's actually deceptively simple. Pushups and pullups. Sounds easy right?
I was actually was surprisingly disappointed with my inability to do pushups. I've never considered myself "weak" but after a pretty simple fitness test and a workout I was acutally very disappointed in where I was physically. But I guess I'm not surprised.
I got into the pushups and got a set done without cheating. I got into the pullups and I had to use the chair to help but put 100% into that too. And that's about the time I felt like I was going to puke. It's funny because I had heard all the things online about how tough it was and for soem reason I just figured that was all B.S. But it's not. It's all true. I can attest that I was about to throw up less than half way through the exercises.
It was pretty demoralizing to find out where rock bottom was, but I did what I could. I did the rest of the pushups on my knees and gave it all I could. I did the pullups with the stool. I did the exercises with the weights I had. I got it done.
The AB Ripper was almost the same if not worse. I couldn't do most of the exercises let alone do them for 25 reps. But I did what I could.
Day 1 was brutal. But I'm still going to push play on Day 2.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment