March 14 marked the beginning of the second round of P90X for me. This puts me at an end date of June 12 or just in time for the beginning of summer. A few days before the end of the round will be my 28th birthday. I hope to be in the best shape of my life, and know that if I stick with this program that will in fact be the case.
The first workout of the program is Chest and Back. This is pretty much push ups and pull ups with a couple of back workouts with weights. I used to hate push ups and honestly I still can't do a pull up. I have grown to love push ups in all forms and was anxious to start the program as I knew this was the first disc. I've definitely lost some stamina from when I completed my last round (October 3), but you know what Tony says, "Do your best and forget the rest!" I am doing this round with a pull up bar and it is a completely different ballgame than with the bands as I did last time. I did all sets of pull ups with a chair to assist, but hopefully by the end of the program I'll be doing them all by myself!
On resistance days you also do the Ab Ripper X workout. This ab routine is no joke and is probably the craziest 17 minute stretch of the entire program. I was surprised that I was able to keep up with the robots on the screen for much of the workout, but I did sub out the Fifer Scissors for some boat (albeit less than half of the dedicated time). I know from experience that this workout gets easier with repetition and I should be able to complete the entire workout by about week 4.
I'm still going strong on my March challenge. The water intake has been a little light and I am slightly behind on my goal to hit 5000 push ups (2194/2254), but this was due to a vacation last week. I'm home and ready to hit it hard and will be BRINGING IT every day!
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