P90X Day 57 Completed: Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X
P90X Chest and Back
WOW! I almost forgot how intense the Chest and Back workout was! Today is day 57 of my P90X workout, and I just finished Chest and Back and Ab Ripper X. The Chest and Back workout went great! Even though I’m still not 100% (I’ve been fighting some kind of cold or something), I gave this workout my all and made some pretty good improvements from week 3 of P90X. Depending on the exercise, I was able to add 1 to 5 more reps to each set. Also, for the Heavy Pants, Lawnmowers, and the Back Flys, I used 30 pound dumbbells instead of the 25 pound dumbbells I used during week 3.
I was able to add the most reps during the beginning of the workout, and as the workout progressed I was able to add less and less reps since I was getting tired. By the time I got to the second set of the Diamond Push-Ups, my arms, back, and chest were exhausted! The last few reps were extremely hard and it got to the point where I couldn’t push myself up anymore. I know I’ll definitely be feeling this tomorrow!
Ab Ripper X went great, but it was super hard today! I guess it was so hard because it’s been awhile since I’ve done this workout, and I’m still getting over being sick. I pushed through the pain and I still managed to do all of the reps. I also did the difficult version of all of the moves except for the Leg Climbs (like usual).
Overall, I think today was a great start to Phase 3 of P90X!
Nutrition for today-
Breakfast: Bowl of Fiber One cereal, and a protein shake.
Mid-Morning: Whole wheat English Muffin with a little bit of natural peanut butter and grape jelly.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with provolone cheese, and extra virgin olive oil dressing.
Mid-Afternoon: Cup of fruit juice blend prior to Chest and Back & Ab Ripper X. Also had P90X Recovery drink after my P90X workouts.
Dinner: I was thinking of having an omelette (even though it’ll be dinner time) with turkey and a little bit of cheese so I can get some good quality protein.
After-Dinner: Protein shake.
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I havent done my workout today, but sorry for the lack of posting recently. I’ve been trying to ween myself off the internet as a lifestyle change and forget to comment.
I looked at your pics and noticed a ton f improvement for you. Your triceps look like a vast improvement. Congrats on the progress. Have you been making plans for post 90 days? I feel like im just going to repeat phase 3 a few times after it’s over.
Story for you. Signed up for a 4 mile fun run yesterday morning. There’s a huge festival event here in KC called the snake events. Image the stands where runners go by and people hand them cups of water. Those stands existed, except in the cups there were jell shots and beer. It was a blast. Everyone was drinking before the run and having a good time. It rocks you taking a strong jello shot full stride!
No problem, I totally understand!!
I appreciate it! I’m still not 100% sure what I’m going to do after this first round of P90X. I’m almost positive that I’m going to go ahead an do another round, but I not sure if I am going to combine Insanity with P90X, combine P90X Classic with P90X Plus, or just do P90X Classic again…
That’s funny! That does sound like fun! My stomach if pretty weak though so I’m not sure I could hold that down and then run 4 miles! Sounds like it was a blast!
It tests your metal thats for sure. I havent ran 4 miles in years, so it was going to be hard regardless. At least there was incentive every half mile in the form of free alcohol to keep pushing me. I finished in 29 minutes, 32 seconds.
errrr, sorry that was the last checkpoint time. Final time was 34 mins 16 seconds. Just looked at the website.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve run more than 1.5 miles! I’ve always been a pretty bad runner and lacked the endurance to go far.
LOL! That’s true! I guess if you have an incentive to keep you going it’s a little bit easier!
34 minutes…that’s an 8.5 minute mile. That seems pretty good! Good job!!