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Week 9: recovery, and i mean real recovery

So as the title says, I decided to allow my body to recover for few days. If by the end of the week i am not feeling better, it will be in the hand of a physician.

No worries, i believe it is just too much training, too much stretching or i just pull a bit a muscle.

Here are the results so far with starting day, end of phase 1 and end of phase 2 (day 1, day 30, day 60 that are in fact the real days 1, 28, 56 but anyway).

Conclusion, this thing works....

Core Synergistics, week 8 day 7

Today was Core synergistics.

As my legs are still sore/bugging me, i didn't do the full workout by skipping the exercices that are too demanding on the legs.

I will probably also take the week off next week to give time to my legs to recover properly before starting the phase 3.

I don't know what happened, overtraining, pulling a muscle, overstreching or overextending during kempo. I have no clue.

I will have to keep the diet in check next week during the break so i am not putting on some weight

Keep pushing play people, I will in a week to begin phase 3

Gym workout, week 8 day 6

Today was some workout on the upper body due to my flimsy legs that are still not holding correctly

Did some lat pull downs, chess fly, chess press, triceps dips and biceps curls.

Recovery day; Week 8 day 5

Recovery day today as we had a hard time trying to find the time to make the workout.

I am also really starting to feel disconfort in my knees and legs.. we will see

X Stretch, Week 8 day 4

Today was X stretch, we took care of ourselves.

Keep pushing play

Kempo X, W8 D3

KempoX, almost halfway through the second "recovery" week.

And almost 2/3 of P90X done.

Pretty good workout, i felt full of energy, did the whole workout with an average of 128 HR (it is counting the warmup and the stretch session at the begining where i was in the 70's).

Good workout and probably a lot of calories burnt on that one

Keep pushing play ...

Core Synergistics, week 8 day 2

Core Synergistics,

I will tell you frankly that i didn't miss it in the last month.

Banana-superman

Banana rolls

Prison cell push ups.

Plank to chataranga iso..

This is a very demanding workout, not only on the core but also on the arms.

Yoga X; Week 8 DaY 1

Today is the first day of recovery week.

And we start sweaty with YogaX.

Man, i don't know what happen but i felt great on this workout.

I did all the vignasa well, I did all the pushups in between upward dog and downward dog.

I am still struggling on the half moon. And sometimes, my legs are just so sore that i have to come out of the lunge.

But mostly, i am bvery happy with that workout.

And don't be so sad about losing ab ripper X this week, we have twice yoga, meaning we have twice the Yoga belly seven exercices.

Kempo X; Week 7 Day 7

Last day of the phase 2 workouts, beginning tomorrow will be the "recovery" week. Don't think it is chips and coke on a sofa watching dumb stuff on TV. We will still work, and in fact we will work hard.

Kempo X, what to say....

Ah.. yes: your legs are probably as sore as possible fater Yoga and Legs back to back, but today you have to kick...

Good workout focused on cardio. Compared to plyometrics where i manage a workout at 131 average HR, this one make me do 128 on average. Not bad...

Legs and Back; Week 7 Day 6

Today was back and legs.

As usual, legs after Yoga is a killer. And tomorrow will be KempoX...arghh....

During this workout, legs get on fire. The worse being one legged wall squat...

And on the other side, your back is also getting is share of fire with the pull ups.

Also not my favorite workout but you have to do what you have to do.

And all of that followed by the recurent Ab ripper X.. hmm i love it.

I also did a 45 min cardio on the treadmill in the morning

Recovery day: Week 7 Day 5

Today we went with some friend play volleyball.

We came up short on time considering the workout so we decided to recover today and switch the rest of the week for a day.

Yoga X; Week 7 Day 4

Yoga X is still not my favorite workout.

We could have done like some people and dropped it altogether but we felt that it was a workout that could give us something that the other couldn't.

This workout, even without involving weight or numbers of reps, is still kicking our butts. That is the thing incredible about it: we do the exactly same workout after 7 week and it is still challenging.

This is probably coming from the point that you do the poses better, you go lower on the lunges, and therefore you work more.

Awesome workout even if I am not very happy with what i did....

Back and Biceps, Week 7 Day3

Back and Biceps is pulling pulling and more pulling.

All the workout is focused on the very top of the body.

For sure, you're gonna feel it as we did again this week...

I upped a bit the weight on some exercices and i felt it near the end of the workout.

Pretty good workout and followed by the renowned ARX.

A top notch workout of the glamour part of the ody as Tony says.

Keep pushing play people.

And don't forget the moto: if you want results, you have to BRING IT !!!!

Plyometrics, Week 7 Day 2

Yesterday night was plyometrics

As usual, it kicked our butts.

I manage to average at HR 128 for the duration of the workout.

I still don't like the bunny and rocker exercices but i give my best for the rest.

AND TODAY IS:

"we're already halfway through, what a bummer"

For those P90X addict, they will have found where I got this sentence..... ARX of course.

So YES, we are halfway of the full P90X. So we better start thinking what will be next.

We didn't quit P90X !!!!

Hello there,

As the title says, we didn't quit P90X but I had a hard time to keep up with the logs on the blog.

We are still doing strong on the workouts (even if the last Yoga workout was done Sunday instead of Thursday) and we are still doing well on the diet.

I would like to add that i think we are doing better on the diet than before. We switched to a 5-6 meals a day plan with equal grams of proteins each meal and not exceding the caloric limit set.

For information to the one interested, we found a pretty good websire with tons of informations about workouts, meal plans...

here is the link:

http://fitness.scoobysworkshop.com/index.htm

Keep bringing it after having pushing play...

Recovery day; Week 5 day 7

Not much to say for today, it was recovery day.

We went to see Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinausaurs in 3D.

Great movie

KempoX; Week 5 day 6 alias Day 34

Kempo X..

Even if a lot of people like this workout, i don't really like it.

Warmup with crecent pose and alike: i mean come-on, we did Yoga 2 days ago and Legs and Back less than 12h ago, give me a break...

Other wise some move ar still difficult to remember, and i really dislike kicking some air....

I might just replace kempoX by cardioX or even a cardio seance at the gym...

keep pushing play....

Legs and Back; Week 5 Day 5, alias Day 33

Legs and Back... after the Yoga X

Very strenuous on the legs, you will be feeling the crescent pose, warriors from yesterday on your legs durind this workout...

The classic workout of phase 1 that we are keeping all program long.

This workout was pretty hard, end of the week...

We also did it very very late and finished it up at 11:45pm and decided to pass on ARX for today and do it tomorrow following up the KempoX session.

Yoga X; Week 5 Day 4 alias Day32

Yoga X, the most dicussed workout of P90X.

There are those that love it and those that hate it...

And there are people like me, that don't really hate it nor love it but do it anyway because found it like a very good workout.

On that one you have to pass on the "prejuges", and give a chance to Yoga X.

I feel that this is a very important workout, that probably burns a lot of calories and also work on muscle. But unlike squat or curls, here you are working the muscle without even moving....

Awesome

Back and Biceps, Week 5 Day3

Back and Biceps,

We mix up things a bit compared to the first 3 weeks and we put back together the biceps curls and the pull ups...

Let me tell your straight: this workout is a killer...

New pull-up comng in Cob corn: I hate them

A very good but intensive upper body workout..

keep up guys....

Plyometrics, W5 D2 alias day 30

And we are back with the classics...

Plyometrics is one hell of a workout. I don't know if it's because this was recovery week or else, but it kicked my butt again.

During this one hour workout, you are very rarely on the floor. It's working legs but also the core.

I finished the workout in a good sweat, and averaged HR 131 on the whole workout (with the warmup).

I am pretty happy with what i did. But i still consider myself as not fit enough.

I will keep bringing it until i can finish plyometrics without moaning about the day-after's bike commute... lol

Keep pushing play guys...