I finished P90x and it is a great feeling to have actually stuck with something and finish it. Towards the end I fell behind and failed to write a post daily, but I kept pressing play and followed through with the workouts and now I have finished my first run through of P90x! So many [...]
I banged my knees a lot when I did the kicks in today’s P90x Kenpo workout, and afterwards they felt stiff and were swollen. I’ll have to keep my knee a little bent and not lock them when I kick next time.
I have to be careful doing this workout as it’s easy for me to hurt my knees. If you aren’t doing the squats and other leg exercises correctly it isn’t hard Ab ripper is always tough. Just when I think I’ve gotten good at one excercise I try the harder version and it destroys my [...]
During this workout I noticed that I’m definitely starting to see muscles popping up and more definition in my legs.
Aaagh! The P90x Chest & Back workout is soooo hard! Nothing but tons of push ups and pull ups. I’m so much better at push ups and pull ups than I was when I first started, but then again, I don’t know how in the world I wouldn’t be any better. With all the push [...]
Only 3 more weeks left of my P90x 90 day transformation. The week went well, and the diet went well, but I’m bummed that I’m not losing weight very fast. I feel stuck at 16% body fat.
I had so much energy in the Kenpo X workout that I was able to go above and beyond all my previous Kenpo workouts. Bruce Lee would have even been impressed (well, maybe not quite yet). Kenpo X is still my favorite P90x workout. The diet is going great. Today I gorged myself with water. [...]
My legs are dieing after the Legs & Back workout. I started P90x without being able to do many pull-ups or chin-ups in the workouts. Now I can do much more.
While working out today I realized how important it is to write down the weight and reps you do on each exercise. Without a reference to go from I know I wouldn’t push myself to do more than last time. Back & Biceps went good, I like all the curls in this P90x workout.
I love this P90x workout. It’s quite a tough one on the shoulders, triceps, and chest. I’ve been trying my hardest to make sure I hit muscle failure on each exercise. My chest, shoulders and triceps were so tired just after the first few exercises that I couldn’t imagine how I was going to make it [...]
P90x Stretch X was nice. I’ve been pretty sore and stiff this week, so it was good to loosen up. Week 9 went good. I have tons of energy for the workouts and have been working my hardest at them. I’d like to lose weight a little faster. I feel like I’ve been stuck in [...]
I was thinking during the P90x Kenpo X workout today that it would be fun to have a punching bag or even multiple punching bags to use in this workout. There are lots of combos and kicks so I think it would be fun to have bags set up to practice on. Kenpo X never [...]
P90x Legs & Back was brutal today. The workout is getting easier, so I am able to push myself much harder in it. I can do the normal wall squat, and the single-leg wall squat a hundred times better now. My legs were so weak at the start of P90x that this workout was very [...]
My brother recently started P90x, and when he said he was thinking about not doing the P90x Yoga X workout, I instantly tried to talk him into continuing doing it. I know that I HATED Yoga X the first few times I did it. I thought Yoga was a waste of time for me, and [...]
My shoulders felt it in today’s Shoulders & Arms P90x workout. I’ve been working on pushing myself to muscle failure. I don’t really care about putting on much muscle mass right now, I just want to work as hard as I can so I can lose fat! The resistance bands work great in this workout. [...]
Today I was really sore from yesterday’s P90x Chest & Back workout. It was a very hard workout! Plyometrics is one of my least favorite workouts, probably because it is a weak area for me. I’m glad P90x has a workout like this in it, as I know it is very beneficial for me. My [...]
It’s been awhile, but it’s back! Today’s P90x workout was Chest & Back. It is such a draining workout, I completely worked my chest and back until exhaustion. There is no way to get through this workout without feeling it. When I wasn’t even halfway through it, my muscles were already thoroughly exhausted. I really [...]
Stretch X went fine as usual. Today marks the end of week 8 of P90x and the end of phase 2. It’s going by so fast! Overall I’d say week 8 was great. This whole week had an emphasis on recovery and abs. The recovery was nice. Recovery weeks are definitely easier on me than [...]
The first couple of times I did the P90x Yoga X workout I couldn’t even hold upward dog without keeping my knees off the ground. I wasn’t strong enough to do that the whole time. This workout I had so much energy and was able to push myself hard. It really is hard to stay [...]
Today’s P90x workout was Core Synergistics. I can’t do too many push-ups yet, so exercises like prison cell push-ups are very tiring! I start out feeling great on the first few and then I… get slower…. & slower… and then I start huffing and puffing and feel ready to fall down on the floor. Over [...]
Each time Stretch X comes along I notice something I’m a little more flexible at. For example, today I could finally grab my foot with both hands on the single leg hamstring stretches. I couldn’t do that before P90x without ripping something.
My hip joints pop like crazy in workouts like Kenpo X and Ab Ripper X. I’ve been told that it’s because I have weak hip flexors. I would have to agree with that because every exercise that gets the hip flexors is hard for me, and I can definitely tell that it is a weak [...]
Today was only the third time I’ve done P90x Core Synergistics, so it was nice to do a workout that I haven’t done in awhile. In this workout I find exercises like bow to boat, prison cell push-up, and plank to chaturanga run really hard to do. Resistance bands aren’t as good to have as [...]
Day 50 is the start of a new workout schedule, with a focus on recovery and ab work. I don’t feel sore or like I need recovery time, but I’ll take it. In today’s P90x Yoga X workout I was finally able to hold crane pose for more than 8 seconds. Balancing in that position [...]
I feel so alive! I switched from the Fat Shredder diet to the Energy Booster (rightly named) diet and the difference between the amount of energy I have today compared to previous days is AMAZING. I’m glad I made the switch, because now I feel like I can put so much more into my P90x [...]
Bla bla bla, today’s P90x Kenpo X workout was sleepy. I have been low on energy for the past few days, and I even feel slightly nauseated at times when I’m working out. I don’t get a lot of carbs in the fat shredder diet, and I think that my body may be screaming for [...]
I started today’s Legs & Back P90x workout in great shape, but towards the end I found myself short on breath and out of energy. According to the P90x nutrition guide you should switch diets when you feel like you are running low on energy. I certainly feel like that, but I’m going to wait [...]
Today’s P90x workout was Yoga X. I felt sick today, but by the time Yoga X came around I was feeling a little better, but still not well enough to go all out. Instead of skipping the workout I went ahead and did what I could. What I like about P90x is that there’s usually a beginner [...]
I didn’t eat a whole lot at all today. I did great at the beginning of the P90x Chest, Shoulders & Triceps workout, but towards the end I crashed and wasn’t able to do better than last time. Working on getting a regular sleep schedule to help me perform better. I really did not want to [...]
Bleck, Plyometrics. I have improved drastically in Plyometrics, but if any P90x workout is the most mentally challenging, it is this one. Squats, lunges, and jumping galore. With me being out of breath and having my legs burning like crazy, this P90x workout really challenges me mentally to keep pushing hard. I worked up a lot [...]
Woohoo, I love this workout. I do however have trouble using the bands for exercises where you have to make a loop to shorten them. It drives me nuts to have one side of the band longer than the other one so I spend longer than I should making the perfect loop. I suppose my loop [...]
I was extremely sore and tight today. So stretching today was painful. Before P90x I used to maybe spend 5 minutes to no minutes stretching before I did any kind of workout. I felt like it waste of time and that I would be perfectly fine without it. I still wanted to be more flexible, but [...]
Kenpo X is great. I generally don’t enjoy cardio exercise (like running) because most of the time I find it boring. Kenpo X on the other hand isn’t boring! I sweated a ton during today’s workout, and didn’t feel so great. I felt like I was lacking energy today. I was definitely sore in my abs from yesterday. P90x Day 41 [...]
P90x Legs & Back went great. I went all out and had tons of energy to spare! Ab Ripper X was excellent! Today will go down in history as the first day that I was able to do ALL 349 ab/core exercises. I didn’t have to stop and I did all the reps! I may [...]
Yoga is an extremely long workout. An hour and a half of Yoga is not easy to make it through. The first 45 or so minutes are the hardest. Once I make it through that all is well until the Yoga Belly 7 comes along. Boat, torso twist hold, and touch the sky are always [...]
In the P90x Back & Biceps workout you do so many curls that I don’t know how anyone could get through it without feeling it in their biceps. I worked hard in this workout. Afterwards my arms and my back felt stiff and thoroughly exhausted. Today was the 2nd time I have done this workout, and already I [...]
What a surprise! The P90x Plyometrics workout is STILL killer. Even when I feel good and think, “Man I’m doing great! I’m not even that tired yet!”- all it takes is for me to jump just a little higher, or squat just a little lower each time for my legs to get completely burnt out. Today I felt pretty good [...]
My hamstring was all better, and I felt like I had tons of energy during today’s P90x Chest, Shoulders & Triceps workout. Resistance bands are kind of fun to use, partly because I enjoy trying new things. In the past I always used dumbells at a fitness center (when I USED to workout) and I never even had thought about using [...]
The end of the week (rest day) is a nice break from all the hard P90x workouts. It feels like my reward for living through another week of P90x. I didn’t want to skip doing stretch x, because after it I always feel more loose and it seems like it makes my muscles happy, sooooo [...]
My workout schedule has been erratic. Lately I’ve been working out late, late, late at night, and my P90x Kenpo X workout today suffered because of it. I was throwing half awake punches and kicks, and my hamstring was still sore from pulling it yesterday. Thankfully, it’s not bad enough to keep me from doing P90x. P90x [...]
Today’s P90x Legs & Back workout went alright besides me pulling a muscle in my leg. It happened during one of the many lunges that are in this workout. I think I lunged to far for my hamstring to handle. It affected my performance during the rest of the workout, and made Ab Ripper X a little [...]
Yoga. It’s frustrating, but yet it’s relaxing. I am experiencing huge improvements in Yoga. My increased flexibility has helped me be able to do the Yoga moves better than before. There are a series of moves in the P90x Yoga X workout that I still have huge trouble with. The standing splits, and half moon to [...]
I love the Back & Biceps workout! Today was the first day I’ve done it. Lots of curls in this workout! Resistance bands take some time getting used to. I was pretty clumsy using the bands today. It sometimes is a little tricky situating them right under your foot and making sure there is even [...]
In today’s P90x workout I went all out. Plyometrics was a doozy! I pushed myself to the point that I had to back up a little because I thought I might vomit on the carpet if I kept going that hard. Plyometrics is always hard (ALL the P90x workouts are hard), today though, I was ten times better [...]
Truth be told, I don’t like doing cardio workouts. I do however, like doing workouts like today’s Chest, Shoulders & Tricep routine. I enjoy lifting weights or using resistance bands, which this workout had quite a bit of. This workout had me at muscle failure right away during the first exercise, which was 3-in-1 push-ups. I’m [...]
April 30, 2009 – 12:24 pm
I can’t believe phase 1 of P90x is finished! I’m really satisfied with how it went, and I am loving the results P90x has given me. My goal for phase 1 of P90x was to just make it through and get a feel for things. The workouts are difficult, but after the third time I [...]
I always look forward to P90x Stretch X. It’s a nice break, and after I do it I always feel better. I’m much more flexible than I was when I first started P90x. Week 4 of P90x Overview Week 4 of my get fit with P90x journey was a nice change from the last three [...]
Every time I do P90x Yoga X I get a little more flexible, and a little better. Today I was actually able to put my arm behind my back and grab it from underneath my leg. The last time I attempted it, I nearly dislocated my shoulder. P90x Day 27 Measurements Weight: 176.6 lbs (-5.4 lbs) [...]
Core Synergistics went great. I noticed a slight improvement from the first time I did it. You are supposed to tighten your core throughout the entire workout. So far I lack the core strength to be able to keep it tight during every exercise. I found that for the P90x Core Synergistics workout, it is [...]
My appetite was very strong today and I ate everything I could eat on the P90x Fat Shredder nutrition plan. I’ve been doing horrible drinking water, and I know that it would be healthier for me and would even give me better results if I drank more, so I set a goal to drink 100 ounces [...]
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