Week 2!

I've made it through week 1 and moving on to week 2!  The first week was definitely learning what I was getting myself in to and starting over was not too bad.  The way the layout works is you do the same workouts every week for 3 weeks and then you switch.  I think he calls it muscle confusion so your body does not get used to doing the same thing over and over again.  Makes sense I guess.  Last night we did Chest and Back again as it is day 1 of the week.  The hardest part of this workout is the damn push ups!  There is a type of push up you do called Dive-Bombers, oh man.  If you have ever seen GI Jane with Demi Moore, these are the push ups she does in the water.  You know when she's training to be a Navy Seal.  The movie where she is ripped.  The movie where she tells her CO to...well you know.  Yeah, those push ups.  I can only do them half way, but give props to Justin because he does them all the way.  It's impressive.  It was a pretty good workout though and I did better than I did on my first day.  I'm looking forward to when I can actually add reps to the workout to see the results of getting stronger.  One thing I realized is I do need to stretch on the stretch day.  I elected to take the "rest day" instead of stretching on Saturday, and it was not a good idea.  Not for reasons you are thinking, but because I felt so lazy on Saturday because I didn't do anything.  It made it kind of difficult to want to work out on Sunday, but I did! 

As I was working out last night I realized there is a piece of P90X that has not made it into the blog, and I cannot figure out why.  It is by far probably the worst part of all of the discs and I dread it every time I read it on the workout.  The bad thing is I have to do it every other day.  This elusive workout piece is Ab Ripper X...horrible!  It's like 300 some odd reps on your abs, but I definitely do NOT do them all.  I think I do 10 or so of each type and still feel like my abs are going to tighten in on themselves.  Some of them I can only get 5 reps out.  They are difficult.  So now you know.  Beware of the Ab Ripper because the name explains it all.

As for a weight check, 168, 2 pounds in a week.  I did weigh myself on Thursday and was down to 165, but I realize I need to weigh myself weekly to see what I've accomplished in a week's time.  And this past week is 2 pounds!  Better than none.

So here is to week 2, and Plyometrics tonight (ugh)...