Today was day two of my P90X body transformation journey, and today's workout was Plyometrics!!! It was extremely hard, but I liked it a lot more than I liked Chest and Back. Oh, speaking of Chest and Back, I am SO SORE!!! Oh my word, every single movement hurts. Even sleeping hurt last night! But you know what? That means something I did yesterday was effective. Even my abs hurt, believe it or not!!! That makes me so happy because I know that what I did is working.
That being said, back to Plyometrics. It was completely different than Chest and Back. It was a lot more cardio and jumping and squatting. Again, I found myself unable to keep up with most of it, but a modified version was given, so I followed that a lot. Hopefully by the end of 90 days I won't need to follow the modified version. There were only two moves today that I COULD NOT do: Rock Star Jump Squats (or something like that) because they were really really difficult, and Baseball Throws because I am too uncoordinated to figure out how to do it, ha! Next time I do Plyometrics, I'll go to that section first and play it in slow motion so I can learn how to do the move. I just couldn't figure out which leg went with which arm and stuff like that.
My shirt is completely soaked with sweat right now, and that's a good thing!! I'm drinking the Muscle Milk again, and it's better today. I put the powder in BEFORE the water today, so the powder dissolved more. Ha, I'm so smart.
Tomorrow is Shoulders and Arms, and I get a chance to do better at Ab Ripper X. I'm scared of Shoulders and Arms because I'm already so sore from Chest and Back. However, I'm just gonna do my best, and forget the rest!!
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Number One, We've Begun
I just finished Day 1: Chest and Back and Ab Ripper X. Holy S...I don't know what I was expecting but it was not as hard as what I actually got!!! It is REALLY difficult. I couldn't even do most of what they were doing. I suck at push ups. Seriously. I think maybe for the first half of this month I may need to do girl push-ups just so I can actually do SOMETHING. I feel really discouraged. How am I ever going to get a good body if I can't even do the moves? However, at the end of the workout I was really sweating and my muscles are weak...so I must have been doing something, at least. I wrote down my reps, and I will try to match them and increase them over the next 90 days.
Then came Ab Ripper X. I feel even more discouraged about that than I do Chest and Back. Honestly, I could not do a single thing. Maybe I don't have the right form, but how on earth do you start lying on the ground and then pull all the way up to touch your toes??? I just fell over every time I tried it!!! I feel really disappointed in myself. I won't be able to get "ripped" if I just fall over. After Ab Ripper X I didn't feel tired because I couldn't do any of the moves they did. Most of the moves were like a sit-up, but like I said, I just fell over time. I couldn't balance. I'm not sure what to do about this. Should I supplement other ab workouts until I build up SOME sort of ability to do what they are doing? I'm not going to get ripped if I DON'T do what they do, but I'm also not going to get ripped if I CAN'T do what they do. I think I'll give it half a month -maybe a month. I'm going to keep trying and keep bringing it!
Now I'm drinking my Muscle Milk supplement. I know they say to drink the P90X supplement, but it is EXPENSIVE!! I'm a college kid, here. Perhaps in my second or even 3rd round of P90X (which would be in the summer) I will drink their supplement and eat their protein bars. Right now, I'm just going to try to survive in the best way I can. I must say, though, this Muscle Milk stuff tastes awful! It just comes in a giant jar in powder form and you mix it into water. Yuck. I think it's good for me, though, so I will continue.
I think if any one word could sum up day one it would be "Failure;" however, I'm not going to quit. I'm going to keep pushing play every day. I'm sure by the end of 90 days I'll be able to do at least ONE sit-up!
Then came Ab Ripper X. I feel even more discouraged about that than I do Chest and Back. Honestly, I could not do a single thing. Maybe I don't have the right form, but how on earth do you start lying on the ground and then pull all the way up to touch your toes??? I just fell over every time I tried it!!! I feel really disappointed in myself. I won't be able to get "ripped" if I just fall over. After Ab Ripper X I didn't feel tired because I couldn't do any of the moves they did. Most of the moves were like a sit-up, but like I said, I just fell over time. I couldn't balance. I'm not sure what to do about this. Should I supplement other ab workouts until I build up SOME sort of ability to do what they are doing? I'm not going to get ripped if I DON'T do what they do, but I'm also not going to get ripped if I CAN'T do what they do. I think I'll give it half a month -maybe a month. I'm going to keep trying and keep bringing it!
Now I'm drinking my Muscle Milk supplement. I know they say to drink the P90X supplement, but it is EXPENSIVE!! I'm a college kid, here. Perhaps in my second or even 3rd round of P90X (which would be in the summer) I will drink their supplement and eat their protein bars. Right now, I'm just going to try to survive in the best way I can. I must say, though, this Muscle Milk stuff tastes awful! It just comes in a giant jar in powder form and you mix it into water. Yuck. I think it's good for me, though, so I will continue.
I think if any one word could sum up day one it would be "Failure;" however, I'm not going to quit. I'm going to keep pushing play every day. I'm sure by the end of 90 days I'll be able to do at least ONE sit-up!
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