P90X Day Eight

Day Eight

Day eight was just a repeat of day one.  I did the Chest and Back exercise along with the Ab Ripper X.  Today was the first day of the semester, so lugging a backpack and purse around campus helped me work out a little today too.  That is one heavy book bag -_-  But I'm so excited to be back in classes.  Even though I hate it by the end of the semester, I love the beginning of courses.  I'm sad this is my last semester here in college.  But in the long run, it is a good thing.

I did a lot of pull ups and push ups today.  I had to use the bands because I do not have a pull up bar here in school.  I did at least 100 pull ups, and at least 100 push ups.  It may have been more, but I lost count.  I know I'm supposed to write everything down, but for some reason I just can't get myself to do it :(  That's the one thing I'm not doing correctly.

I know for a fact that I did 300 crunches.  My back is killing me!  For some reason, my back hurts whenever I do these.  I check my form and everything but it is still painful.   But today I forced myself to do 300/345.   Right after I finished I went and got a cup of chocolate milk.  My friend told me that it would be good for after a work out.  So far, I feel great.  This will be my version of the recovery drink.

Back to homework!

P90X Day One

Alright!  So I have started P90X!  I am exhausted!  That could also be because I didn't sleep much last night.  For the first workout, I spent an hour on the Chest and Back and then about half an hour on Ab Ripper X.  That's what it said to do for normal day one.


The Chest and Back disc kicked my butt!  I tell you what!  The work out had me do different kinds of pull ups along with different kinds of push ups.  I even had to do some weight lifting.

The pull ups were the hardest thing for me to do.  Even when I was in gymnastics, I was never good at it.  Since I'm moving back to school on Sunday, I ordered some resistance bands.  If I can't afford that pull up bar, I can at least afford the bands.  I'm going to find some way to make it work.  My arms had one heck of a work out.

Next was push ups.  I never knew there were so many different ways to do push ups.  At the very least I can do ten at a time...I can't keep up with the thirty at a time they do... O_o  Not that ripped yet.

Finally, I lifted weights.  All I really had here were 5 pound weights.  The other ones were about fifty pounds...those were dad's.  This was a good work out as well.  After all of that my arms are already sore.  I know it will pay off later though.  Hopefully once those resistance bands come it, it will help.

After that was done and over with, I moved on to the Ab Ripper X.  That is intense, and I love it.  If my lower back didn't hurt so much during the exercises, I would totally do it.

There were all kinds of sit ups.  Each sit up and crunch made my lower back burn like nobody's business.  My abs were worked a bit too.  After all that, I went down to the kitchen and got me some ice!  I'm hoping that will at least help me stay less sore tomorrow.

Once this comes in, I'm going to use their recovery formula after every work out.  I'm still going to keep to my fitness pal for food, so I have to save 220 calories for this little smoothie.  I pray to God it tastes alright.  And now, it's time for a shower, then bed time.  I'm hoping I can change my schedule for a morning work out when I go back to school.  If I do that, I have to wake up at 7:15 every morning and get going.  I need to not make excuses like every other time.  Note to self, go to bed by eleven!!!!  I'm going to have to set an alarm...