Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Day 3: arms and shoulders, ab ripper x

Ankle is still a bit sore from yesterday. Had my 7-egg white scramble this morning and a chef salad for lunch, and came home around 4pm to work out. The workout was tough. The resistance bands were a bit awkward, they were slipping and rubbing a bit but seemed to work ok. We only have two colors of bands right now but we ordered a 6-pack of bands that should be here soon. I still really suck at ab ripper; I can do all 25 reps of a few moves but only about 10 reps or so of some others. I was a bit skeptical of the p90x recovery drink but decided to order the stuff today; I drank some chocolate milk as my recovery drink instead today, which I've heard works pretty well. Excited again for tomorrow.

Day 2: plyometrics

Plyometrics was awesome. I was a bit worried because my ankle is still bad from surgery in December; i'm supposed to be resting it and not running for a while as there is still pain in the ankle and achilles. My ankle seemed to hold up ok, although it was throbbing a bit afterwards. I think the one-leg jumping was probably too much. To my surprise I was able to keep up with just about the whole thing. Was soaked in sweat by the end of it but I felt great. My girlfriend Mary is doing p90x with me, and two of us doing plyo in a 10x12 living room was really tight, but we managed to make it work (bumping into each other a bit).

Monday, June 29, 2009

Day 1: chest and back, ab ripper x

I did day 1 of p90x last night. Was very excited to finally get started. Going out until 7am the night before probably wasn't the best idea but whatever. I'm not great at pushups or pullups right now-- I could get around 10-15 reps of clean pushups but needed to use a chair to help with pullups. I suck at diamond pushups. Ab ripper x also kicked my butt and i could only do all the reps on a few of the moves. I was dying at the end of it. Can't wait for day 2 today.