P90x Day 57 - Chest, Back

Maybe, just maybe, I'm clawing my way back onto the bandwagon. I got up this morning and got my workout in and feel alot better this morning as a result.

Today was the return to the first 3 weeks workouts. Over the next 4 weeks you alternate between week 1 and week 5's workouts. I remember how hard this workout was the first few weeks I did it and now coming back to it it's actually amusing at how un-intimidating it was. Maybe it's because I've done the next set of workouts where you do a rediculous amount of pull-ups, maybe it's just that I'm more confident in myself now. Whatever the case I felt really good going into today's workout.

AND IT SHOWED. Today was by FAR the best workout I've had at least in regards to push-ups. I started out with a set of 20 standard pushups (something I'm sure I couldn't do 8 weeks ago) and mixing in back workouts got a set of 15 military push-ups, 10 decline push-ups, 8 diamond pushups, and 6 "dive bomber" push-ups. All perfect form and not going to my knees. I know without a doubt that I couldn't have gotten close to that feat on week one, but add in the fact that I did almost those same numbers on the second pass through the exercises (you do them twice) and I am acutally shocked at how far I've come.

I don't know if it was the morning workout, or the almost week off to rest and recharge, or what. But this was a really great workout and has me really feeling high on myself right now. I only wish I'd made the same progress will pull-ups but I think I'll just keep plugging along and pull-up progress will be my goal for the next 90 days. I still think that losing more weight is the key to pull-up progress for me.

I didn't do Ab-Ripper today in order to give my back a rest. So far it feels pretty good today. I'll play it by ear this week with running and workouts in order to give me the best shot at a full and quick recovery.

Hopefully this new energy will stay here and I'm on the rebound. Tomorrow is plyometrics. I'm a bit concerned about that workout with my back, but we'll see how it goes. I may or may not add in a run as well.