I started week 5 of the Second round of P90X today with Chest, Tris, and Shoulders with a reckless abandon that hasn't been seen since #40 was roaming the fields of the NCAC Football Conference. My goal was to better my last workout's efforts on reps for each exercise. The last time I did this workout was week 12 of the first round and I had turned in a pretty impressive effort for me in total pushups and total weight/ reps for the other exercises. We tend to use certain exercises as benchmarks to gauge our strength and i think this workout's best gauge is the clapping pushups. I did 13 clapping pushups today. I did a total of 151 pushups today, 10 of those were 1 armed pushups done on my knees. My high total for Round 1 was 128 an 18% increase. I started week 5 with a pedestrian 94 total pushups with almost half of them on my knees. I also remembered how tough the slow count pushups at the beginning were but today it wasn't that bad. Kept up with Ab Ripper and got in a full 45 Mason twists, a first for me. I'm pushing to get to the full 50! I love it but I hate it!
On another note, I had been talking a lot about doing P90X Doubles which would add in a cardio exercise for every weight day. That means today would have been a 2aday. However, logistically, that's crazy. I don't have time to workout twice a day and I don't want my workouts to suffer by trying to combine them. I may still work in some runs and biking as this goes on on the weight days but suffice it to say, I'm not enrolling in the doubles program.
On another note, I had been talking a lot about doing P90X Doubles which would add in a cardio exercise for every weight day. That means today would have been a 2aday. However, logistically, that's crazy. I don't have time to workout twice a day and I don't want my workouts to suffer by trying to combine them. I may still work in some runs and biking as this goes on on the weight days but suffice it to say, I'm not enrolling in the doubles program.
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