Summary of px90 Day 7: Look, my couch. I’m going to lay on it all day.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
So what is px90 Kenpo X? It is a series of punches, kicks, blocks and combinations there of. It’s actually quite fun but I had to catch my breath a few times towards the middle.
I had asthma when I was younger. As quickly as I developed it I fell out of it… except not entirely. From age 13 – 18 I co-existed with my inhaler. Then one day I decided I was no longer going to be dependent on my steroid in a can. I keep my breathing difficulties at bay for the most part but occasionally I wheeze. px90 kenpo x didn’t cause me to wheeze but it did get me questioning whether I should stop or not. I didn’t stop but I definitely lightened my load a little more than half way through. I’ve noticed during the past few px90 workouts that I over exert myself in the first half and die in the second. My goal for next week is to pace myself.
Summary of px90 Day 6: You wanna fight?
While doing ab ripper x in px90 yesterday it dawned on me to substitute crunches for extremely difficult ab exercises. For a few of the exercises I found myself just lying on the floor not doing anything…this is bad! Until my core gets stronger I might as well keep moving during the exercises that I have trouble with. If you exert yourself for all the exercises you can do for px90 ab ripper x then you’ll only have to do a few crunches before you feel your abs aching.
Summary of px90 Day 5: If all else fails do crunches.
I killed it Wednesday! I dug deep and brought it! After finishing weak on Tuesday I was looking for an opportunity to go all out. px90 shoulders and arms gave me this opportunity. I went with high weights on my shoulders and biceps, lower weights on triceps. I have naturally large arms (lobster arms as my friends say) so I’m a little timid about using heavy weights and low reps. I’ve been told numerous times I should use low weights and high reps to tone my arms.
Wednesday was the first px90 workout where I really felt refreshed afterwards. I think doing the workout in the morning is the way to go.
Summary of px90 Day 3: Gave my all and feeling great.
If px90 gets any tougher than this I’m going to have to hirer a drill sergeant to yell at me. Plyometrics aka Jumping takes all of your energy in the first inning. If I can’t walk tomorrow I won’t be surprised. Sitting here now I can feel my thighs locking up.
Squat jumps, lunge jumps, twisting jumps, frog jumps… 30 minutes left to go on the time bar and I was spent. This was also the time where I was concerned for my downstair neighbors peace and quiet. Don’t do this px90 workout at 11pm if you live in an apartment with downstair neighbors. I shook my living room jumping. I can only imagine what expletives my neighbors were thinking when their ceiling sounded as if it was going to cave in at any given moment. So I stopped with 30 minutes to go, not the best thing to do but the right decision due to noise and lack of energy. I’ll do the full workout next week during the morning.
Summary of px90 Day 2: Don’t Jump at Night!
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to post yesterday so I’m posting today instead. My chest is hurting. Never have I stretched so much in one day. Stretching is the only thing that feels good right now, my muscles are beyond sore.
Day 1 of px90 should be called push-ups and pull-ups. You basically do an hour of push-ups and pull-ups. You do 24 sets in all. The push-ups weren’t so bad but the pull-ups took everything out of me. I had to use the chair for all the pull-ups. When using the chair you basically put your foot on it and push yourself up when your back and arms don’t have the strength to pull up. Even with the chair I was only able to do a few pull-ups per set. I think pull-ups are going to be my biggest struggle as I have no back muscles.
So after getting through the first px90 workout I was hit with a Mac-Truck… Ab Ripper X. I imagine this is a brutal workout on its’ own, but doing so after chest and back is terrible. After doing a hundred or so push-ups and 15 or so pull-ups I wanted to be slouching on my couch… NOT doing 339 ab reps.
I didn’t do 339 reps, I did about 60. There are quite a few ab exercises during the 15 minute workout. I’d like to make a recommendation here, don’t kill yourself on the first set. Make a goal with yourself that you’re going to do 5 – 10 reps per exercise. It may seem low for the first few exercises but you’ll thank me by the time you get to the 7th exercise. As time goes on you can increase your reps. I couldn’t do some of the exercises but at the end of it all I felt like I was kicked in the stomach by a mule, so I did something right.
Let me make another recommendation. Eat enough food before doing the px90. I did not eat enough food and I was feeling light headed half way through the workout. One nice thing about the DVDs is the time bar at the bottom of the screen. The time bar indicates the remaining time of the entire workout as well as the remaining time for the set you are currently on. The time bar is annoying when it reads 45:08 but really nice when it reads 06:34. If you start getting light headed with more than 30 minutes left you need to drink more water, eat more food prior to working out or pace yourself more evenly.
Summary of px90 Day 1: This is not going to be a Richard Simmons or Billy Blanks workout. This is going to be tough all the way through.
I bought the px90 a few weeks ago in efforts to bulk up. I’ve always had a high metabolism which keeps me thin… well skinny. For the past 5 years I have been in and out of the gym with moderate success. I’ve grown stronger and added a few pounds but have never achieved the results I’m after. Until about 6 months ago I wasn’t very good at eating healthy. The px90 actually puts a lot of emphasis on eating right, so I’m actually looking forward to learning which foods and meals will keep me fit.
I’m hoping that by writing about my journey through the px90 I’ll be able to make it to the end. I have been known to start strong and finish weak, or not finish at all when it comes to difficult activities. From what I hear the px90 is going to be the most challenging physical experience I have ever faced. I really want to “bring it” for the full 90 days.
The guy over at 90dayreview.com gave me the idea about blogging your way through the 90 days (I actually stole his blog look because I have no artistic skills of my own). I wasn’t to fond of posting pictures of myself but after some reflection I decided that I would do so. It seems like a lot of people who do the px90 are bigger guys looking to lose weight and tone them selves. The before and after pictures aren’t of skinny guys. I hope that by posting pictures of myself I can show others with a similar body type what results you might expect to see.
Please join me as I embark in the px90 for the next 90 days.