P90X Review Legs and Back (Day 19 - Phase 1)
I don’t know if it was because I stayed up too late the night before, or it was the fact that I was going to go into work on my day off, but I was zapped of strength throughout this P90X workout. The leg portion went well, the pull-ups were a struggle. When I got Ab Ripper X, it was like the first day I’ve ever done the workout. I can’t wait until I get caught up at work and relieve this stress. Can’t be good for the cortisol level in my body right now. One of the effects of high levels of cortisol is increased abdominal fat, so the sooner I get the stress level down the better.
Went to work and designed marketing materials including Adobe Acrobat interactive forms with fields that performed calculations. Struggled with some of the Javascript code totake care of some divide by zero errors I was getting in some of the fields. This is the first time I’ve ever created these fill in forms with Adobe Acrobat so it was a learning experience. The results were some good sales tools our company can use to show the ROI of our products.
I left work at about 3:00 and stopped by Walmart to see what they had for fitness equipment. It was really cold on Saturday and I had to park quite a way from the doors, so I jogged to the store. Before P90X, I would have been a little winded, after almost three weeks of P90X I reached the door with very little effort. It was great to feel the benefits of my hard work every day.
I’ve mentioned in some of my past posts on the arms and shoulders P90X workouts that I could really use another pair of dumbbells. Some of the exercises called for heavier weights, but I didn’t want to stop the DVD to swap the plates on my dumbbells so I’ve been using weight that hasn’t been heavy enough. I didn’t want to buy the fixed weight kind since I already have a bunch of steel plates, so I’ve been shopping around for dumbbell handles. They had a great deal on some dumbbell handles. They were only $7.70 a piece. They have heavy rubber padding on the handles and the collars moved smoothly on the handles so the machining was high quality. After a stressful day it was nice to reward myself with something that will benefit my health in the long run. These were not shown on the Walmart website and I couldn’t even find them on the manufacturer’s website, so I’m glad I stopped in to look around.
I can’t wait for Shoulders and Arms next Thursday…I’m going to be bringing it!
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