DAYS 15 & 16 - First Milestone Up Ahead

Dear P90X Diary,

Now that we're into Week Three, it's time to go full out, time to push everything to the limit. Next week is the first rest week, so i need to go hard all the way until then. Tonight, for example (Day 16).

I was at work late dealing with a nightmarish situation, got home and ate dinner (probably a little too much because i had been crushed all day at work and didn't get a chance to eat), then i realized that Plyometrics was tonight. As in, the routine that had me thinking i was having a heart attack the last time i tried it. So i knew i had to wait an hour or two after eating. That put me around 10:00.

Do you think i did a friggin' Plyometrics workout at 10:00 PM when i have to be up at 6:00 the next morning? Am i writing this at midnight?

Damn skippy.

I worked my ass off and did every last one of those moves. I'm gonna bring it all right. Next week means the end of Phase I, a third of the way through P90X. And time to take pictures again to show some progress. I feel it, but i don't see it yet. So i gotta push a little harder. Go flat out. Balls to the wall, all those platitudes that are so overused, but still come to mind when you need to remind yourself to keep going. I kicked ass tonight!


By the way, i'm still laid out on the basement floor. I don't think i can climb stairs.

Could someone come carry me?

Please?

DAY 8 - Here We Go Again

Dear P90X Diary,

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. No, wait, that's the wrong sentiment.

I won't put of until tomorrow what i can do today! Um...

The sun'll come out tomorrow! (Ouch. It's getting worse.)


Basically, today i started the whole thing over again. Chest & Back. And Ab Ripper X. And then i remembered why i hate Tony Horton. So... nothing much to report other than that.

Week Two.
First time repeating.
Hate Tony Horton.

Still going.

DAY 2 - The morning after

Dear P90X Diary,

There it is: the ugly truth about my first day's workout. I worried that i couldn't do very many reps on each of the exercises. Even as i was doing the Chest & Back workout, i thought, "Maybe i'm in over my head." Then i woke up this morning with that good kinda soreness. The feeling in your muscles that lets you know, "Oh, you worked all right." And i realized my goal now is just to get up to speed. To make sure that i can do every move in every workout and do it well. And repeatedly. Then i realized i had started setting goals for my fitness.

And that really feels good.


[Screen shot from the iFitness Tracker 90 App for iPhone. I give it four of five stars.]