First time doing the P90X Core Synergistics workout. I really liked this workout. I don’t know if it was because it was all new exercises, or because it was hitting the spots that I need to improve, but time really flew by. Before I knew it I was done and felt like I had a great workout. I was expecting just another Ab Ripper X type of P90X workout, it wasn’t that focused. It worked the whole core of your body, abs, shoulders, back, the whole enchilada.
I started my workout later in the day on Saturday. I started the workout with a sore back too, since earlier that day I helped my wife unload a TV she received from her parents after they upgraded to a flat screen. It wasn’t a huge TV, but the weight on those things always seem to be off center. I strained my back a couple of years ago when I took a week off of work and installed a brick paver patio. Not sure if it was the excavating with a shovel and a wheel barrow, or hauling the crushed rock from the driveway to the backyard, but I now have a back this a little more susceptible to backaches - that and a really nice patio.
Anyhow, what a day to have a back ache than the day I work on developing my back muscles. Since most of the exercises work on the upper back, it didn’t slow me down until I finished Legs and Back and went to Ab Ripper X. I eased through it and my back didn’t feel any worse than when I had started.
In fact, the benefit that I’ll be gaining from P90X is a stonger back and core muscles which will reduce any soreness in my back. The following day my back felt fine so I was ready to bring it one more day and then X-Rest.
Today, Internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose Twittered that he had received the P90X DVD’s from his sister and asked if anyone had tried it. Shortly after that Ashton Kutcher tweeted, “I’m hoping you didn’t just watch it but you worked out with it. they are all pretty much as tough as the first.” A little while later Demi Moore added this comment to the Twitter conversation, “I have only done the yoga dvd of the P90X so far and that kicked my a**! The husband is banging it out everyday though!I need to motivate!!”
To celebrate reaching my P90X milestones, I’m giving away a couple of items of P90X gear. At the 60 day mark I’ll be giving away a fat caliper to one lucky blog reader, and on my graduation day (day 90), one blog reader will receive a free P90X t-shirt.
Check out the details on how to win Free P90X Gear.
Friday’s P90X workout starts out mighty early - it’s Yoga X day. With the 90 minute time commitment, my alarm clock is waking me from my slumber at 4:45 AM. I roll out bed and grab something to eat and slurp down some black coffee for an energy boost.
I felt a little off balanced today during Yoga X. Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep last night. I really had to struggle on some of the balance poses. I don’t know about you, but those Yoga belly poses are Abripper X exercises in disguise.
I made it through and switched the DVD off before he started the Oms.
I stuck with the diet pretty well today until I met the rest of the family for dinner at an arcade/playland entertainment center. I knew there was going to be nothing but junk there so I ate an apple on the way from work. I ended up eating two slices of some really nasty tasting cheese pizza. Not only did I “cheat” on my diet, I had to do it with some mediocre pizza.
