P90X Adventures: Week 5 round 2... you still alive?

I know my posts have become less and less frequent.  By outward appearances, it would seem as if my workout is likely falling through the same cracks.  Well, it's not (thank god) but it's definitely seeming harder and harder to shoehorn these guys into my day.  I've had many times this week where I was just battling my own desire to be lazy and just say "fuck it, I can miss one day right?".  The problem with that, as I observed the week after thanksgiving is that it's all too easy for that "one day" to widen into two, then basically a week.

It's a lot easier to just not write things though.  I get so wrapped up in daily distractions and maybe it's just the holidays, but this time of the year is always so stressful.  Maybe it's also due to the fact that there's so much less sun this time of year.  I dunno, it just seems like difficulty being productive becomes magnified.  Anyway, I'm here now, and that's what counts.  On to the workout report!

This week was actually pretty awesome!  This was the start of "phase 2" and I was hoping these things would get a lot easier to perform... I'm also used to being wrong a lot when it comes to P90X.  That's not necessarily a bad thing though.  It's probably a bad thing if things do become a lot easier to do, because that likely means it's not being very effective.  I finally bit the bullet and started my way toward upgrading my weights.  Once I learned that not all resistance bands are created equal and the ones I bought I'd essentially outgrown by the time I started using them, I knew it was time to just fix what really works.  I didn't get to grab exactly what I wanted, as it was too expensive to do, but I'm making small moves and that's definitely working for me because this week turned out a lot tougher than I was first expecting.

Chest, Shoulders & Triceps kinda wore me the hell out. It's funny because I was expecting to just shine through some of the routines that appear in other routines.  For instance the side-tri-rises.  They appear in Shoulders & Arms and when I do them, I blast through like 26 of them on each side.  It's pretty impressive.  However, the way the moves are stuctured on Chest, Shoulders & Triceps... oh god...  I felt like such a chump because I could only do 8 on my right side and 12 on my left.  Throughout the week, I kept feeling like I was under-performing myself from previous versions of this workout, but upon looking at the notes, I'm pretty much on par. On routines where I do have lower numbers currently to what was written previously, I know that I'm basically trying to accomplish every move unmodified (except pull-ups).  I still did myself proud with my 25 chair dips though.  That made me happy.  My pike pressers were also full of win.

When it came time for Plyo, I was really just not feeling it on tues.  I was just dragging all day and once I finally got to that point of needing to do it before it was "too late" Zu happened to come home early.  Thanks to her, she kinda gave me that final kick in the ass to get on it, and man did I feel so much better after finishing it.  I guess that's what I love about doing these workouts now.  In years past, I'd just feel like crap and then stop doing the workout because I didn't wanna feel bad.  When you make it a habit or routine, you get past all of the really tough garbage and you always end the workout feeling like a million bucks at the end.  Some days are better than others, and I think it mostly has to do with nutrition and energy levels when I try to attempt doing the workouts.

Back & Biceps was awesome.  I felt like a friggin beast after that one was done.  Arms all swole.  Upping the weight is doing it's thing and I'm glad I did it.  It would be pretty lame if I just kept with the plateu.  Where I really impressed myself this week was with Yoga X.

I was actually able to attempt and hit every single pose this week.  The biggest of all was Plow.  Now, I wasn't all like toes on the floor or anything, that would be ridiculous, but there's a section in yoga x where you're essentially shoulder standing the entire time.  I was doing that shit.  I'd been able to get the straight up and down shoulder stand move but anything else like doing the leg splits or scissoring the legs, I was always just like... nuh uh.. eff that.  Well, this week, I gave it a serious shot and holy shit.  Zu was home and here I was looking like this:

So I yelled out "Zu! Come quick!!  Check this out!"  I was so excited and sort of in disbelief.

Zu walks in and goes "WTF!! are you trying to give yourself a blowjob?!"

Let me tell you, that's not the position you wanna be in when somebody says something like that.  I probably almost broke my damn spine trying not to laugh.  Then she walks over  and starts inspecting closer, leaning in like she's about to "help" me and says "well, you're almost there... just a few more.."

"Goddamnit don't touch me!"

Yeah, nothing would be worse than having paramedics show up to find me stuck like that and end up paralyzed because of it.

I finished the rest of the week pretty strong. I ended up taking my rest day Friday and did Legs & Back yesterday.  Now all that's left is a little kicking and punching today, then bring on next week!!

I'm going to be starting an actual juice fast again in January.  I think I'll start by just juicing only that month and see if I wanna keep going from there.  At which point, I'll probably be blogging about juices and about how shitty the first week is.  It's really tough, and that never changes, but the feeling at the other end is pretty damn awesome I have to admit.  I know I have the muscles now, and now I kinda want to see them.  So here's to uncovering a little more awesome!