I’m definitely starting to understand the benefit of p90x. While each individual workout hasn’t been particularly challenging (except Ab Ripper X, holy cow that kicked my butt), I think the strength lies in the combination of the workouts. Yesterday (which was day 4 since I’m posting this a day late) was the first day so far that I felt sore the day after the workout. I’m sore in places I didn’t even realize I was working out, like my hip flexors.

Day 4 was Yoga X, which was fun, though I really was really tired of doing plank-updog-downdog by about the 20 minute mark, but after about the 30 minute mark, I hit a point where I was just into it. I cleared my mind and just focused on my breathing and where my body was supposed to be. That’s what yoga is about!

As I look forward to day 5, I’m excited but exhausted. It’s probably just my imagination, but I can already see small changes in my body.

As a side note, my trapeze partner has asked me to take it easy the week of the show so that I can bring my a-game to the performance. Since the show is next week, that means, I’m only doing one week of p90x. After the show is over, I’m going to switch over to p90x classic and start again on week 1.

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Today was my postponed Day 3 of p90x Lean. Today was definitely harder than the other days, though I was less sweaty by the end of it than the other days. I can definitely feel the work out that my shoulders got. Here is the information about my shoulders and arms workout. The green and red are the bands that I used for those exercises. Now, the progression from easiest to hardest is yellow, green, red, blue. I’m finding that the red and green are a good choice in places and too light in others. It will be a bit of a learning process over time and eventually I’ll know exactly which bands to use.

• Alternating Shoulder Press - 14 - green
• In & Out Bicep Curl - 16 - green
• Two-Arm Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Alternating Shoulder Press - 14 - green
• In & Out Bicep Curl - 16 - red
• Two-Arm Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Deep Swimmer’s Press - 17 - green
• Full Supination Concentration Curl - 14 - green
• Chair Dip - 12
• Deep Swimmer’s Press - 16 - red
• Full Supination Concentration Curl - 13 - red
• Chair Dip - 15
• Upright Row - 16 - green
• Static Arm Curl - 20 - green
• Flip-Grip Twist Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Upright Row - 17 - red
• Static Arm Curl - 16 - red
• Flip-Grip Twist Triceps Kickback - 15 - green
• Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Fly - 16 - green
• Crouching Cohen Curl - 25 - green
• Lying-Down Triceps Extension - 16 - green
• Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Fly - 16 - green
• Crouching Cohen Curl - 20 - red
• Lying-Down Triceps Extension - 17 - green

And then once that was over, I had to do ab ripper x, which completely kicked my ass. Of course, it’s not surprising given the I had an aerial class last night. Anyway, here is the ab ripper x information:

• In & Out - 25
• Seated Bicycle - 25
• Seated Crunchy Frog - 25
• Crossed Leg/Wide Leg Sit-Up - 25
• Fifer Scissor - 19
• Hip Rock ‘N Raise - 22
• Pulse-Up - 13
• Roll up/v up combo - 19
• Oblique V-Up - Right - 21
• Oblique V-Up - Left - 21
• Leg Climb - Right - 12
• Leg Climb - Left - 12
• Mason Twist - 40

That’s all for today. I’ll try to get a video post done for week one

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This post was delayed because I was really busy yesterday and didn’t get a chance to do the graphs until today.

I do find that the Lean version of p90x isn’t really very intense. Am I supposed to do the lean in addition to the classic? Well either way, I’m going to stick with it like I had planned. Looking ahead to the future, I realized that I wouldn’t be able to do the shoulders, arms, and ab ripper X like planned because I have an aerial class tonight and I need my shoulders to be in fresh for the class, so I’m planning to postpone today’s workout and just do it tomorrow.

However, I did do Cardio X yesterday and it went really well. I worked up a good sweat and while I wasn’t quite ready for it to be over when it ended, I felt like it was a good thing. I kept track of my heart rate using my rad Suunto T6 heart rate monitor. Since it can save the data as XML, I already had a program to generate the heartbeat beats per minute and the “EPOC” which is a suunto thing. Here is the chart:

One thing that was quite out of control this weekend was my eating. I was very conscious the entire time that I wasn’t eating well, but I just didn’t care by the time I got to eat. Mainly because of the hectic schedule this weekend, I didn’t get my usual 5-6 meals a day, but mainly ate 1-2 fairly large meals. I don’t like doing that, but at least during the week, it’s easier to do it.

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As I said in the last post, I’ve decided to do the p90x Lean until after my show at the end of the month so that I’m not too sore for the show. As it is, I’ll be just ending Week 2 when the show happens, so at least it will be a “rest day” for me.

I woke up early this morning so I could do my Day 1 DVD, which for lean is Core Synergistics. It was a fun workout and definitely had me sweating quite a bit by the end. There were only a few moves that I wasn’t able to finish fully. Specifically walking push-ups and Squat X Press. For walking push-ups, I had to stop about 15 seconds from the end because I just couldn’t keep going.

For Squat X Press, I think I chose the wrong resistance band to do 30. I finished 15 of them with the Red (Medium) Band, but because I didn’t have any of the other bands available, I finished the last 15 with no weight. Next time, I’ll just try with the next band size down.

Overall, it was an enjoyable, but slightly less intense workout than I was expecting, when compared to the Chest and Back Day that I tried out. I’m okay with that for this phase, but I’m definitely looking forward to starting the classic, 30 days from now.

It was a very nice surprise to see Dreya Weber [her website] on the dvd. Dreya is an aerialist like myself, though she does lyra (hoop) which I don’t do. It’s still nice to see a fellow aerialist sweating along side of me.

Now it’s time to eat a light breakfast and to go to rehearse my trapeze routine with my partner.

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