P90X Adventures: Week 12 Days 2,3 &4 Plyometrics, Final Back & Biceps, and Yoga X

A lot was happening this week so far which lead to me not being able to actually write about much of it until today.  This week is essentially wrapping up my last week of main resistance training P90X exercises and so far, they've all been awesome.  It's been amazing to see how far I've come on these in particular in 7 weeks.

I'll start with Tuesday's Plyometrics...   I blasted through it and I had quite a bit of energy for a good portion of it.  The sweat was just pouring.  I'd say this is probably literally the most I've sweat the entire time doing P90X, and I'd had some pretty damn crazy sweats between Plyo and Kenpo X...

I look like someone dropped me in the damn river!

I actually wrung out what maybe amounted to about 12-16oz of sweat from that shirt into the sink...  it was not pretty >_<. 

Then Halloween was my final Back & Biceps.  What I found particularly remarkable about my sheet for this was that my numbers all stayed relatively tight.  The big changes between way back in week 5 to now was that I was using less and less of the chair for pullups.  That definitely made a sigificant change in my numbers for pull-ups but that's great because I'm lifting more and more of myself with less and less assistance.  I also started hitting a plateau with the weights so switching to bands made the last couple versions of this really sing for me.  

Then there was Halloween night.  Now, I felt especially happy to try out Left 4 Dead characters.  The years past, the only character I could've really portrayed from L4D was Coach.  I probably would've made a pretty good coach all things considered.  Coach loved to talk about eating... I loved to talk about eating.  I guess we were more kindred spirits for sure, but I know I probably wasn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse because I was just too slow to keep up.  

Now, however I got to try out Louis from the first Left 4 Dead game!  It definitely felt good.  Now I actually feel like I could survive in the zombie apocalypse.

Grabbin' Peelz!!

Then yesterday came Yoga X.  This was literally the first time this entire 81 days so far that I've gone through the ENTIRE Yoga X routine!!!  Hoooly Shit man!!  I did it, and I'm so damn proud of myself.  I'm so amazed at how far I've come with some of this flexibility.  I'm still not very flexible by a long shot but I decided to do a time-lapse of the routine this week and a couple of the shots really amazed me.  Of course, I'm not showing the ones where I was like falling over haha :-P  

This makes me look like I know what I'm doing!! :D

For the last couple days for breakfast, I'd been making various juices and smoothies.  I'd intended on sharing each but kept running out of time each day to actually write a friggin post so I guess I'll just share a couple now!   Tues I made a video featuring a juice since I hadn't done a juice in a while.  So here's that:

This is my "Immunity Boost" juice which came as a request from a good friend of mine.  She wanted to know what types of juice would be good to help fend off colds and flu and all sorts of nasty bugs that start going around about now.

Then yesterday, I made a pretty awesome green smoothie.  This guy was pretty cool.  It basically followed my green smoothie formula of a bunch of kale and some fruit and other boosters to make it tasty.  This time it's a bit more hardcore with Lacinato Kale which is basically the darkest leafy green I've ever really seen aside from maybe purple kale.  Really, Really good stuff.

 Super Green Smoothie:
1/2 bunch of Lacinato Kale (5-6 leaves)
1 cup of strawberries
1 cup of blackberries
1 cup of blueberries
1 carrot
1 banana
1-2 tbsp of Chia Seeds

Yumm!!

So that's what we got.  Today I made another juice which I'll hopefully be sharing either later today or tomorrow when I go over my final Legs & Back which I'm probably about to jump into here pretty soon.

Laters!