Day 20 - Pay Attention

Day 20.  So I am still behind but I am closer.  Kenpo today.  I love kenpo.  Except when I stop paying attention to that I am doing and where I am doing it.  More about that later.  This was the last workout of the first phase of P90X.  I made it!!! Three grueling, pain inducing, torture they call P90X.  But I am starting to love it. Another symptom of becoming a P90X zombie.  Thinking back three weeks isn't really that long.  I do remember some really long days.  So now after this workout I start my recovery week.  New workouts and new pain.  This could get interesting.  So where was I... Ah Kenpo!!! I hope to be one lean mean butt kicking machine.  So lets get in to this workout.  I go through the warm up and burst into the real work.  I am going all out.  I think I am trying to be in need of the little bucket.  I am giving it all I got.  not even ten minutes in I am sweating bullets.  OH YEAH!!!  BRING IT!  So this continues until the first break.  I grab a little water and BOOM!! I am back at it running in place. then some jump rope.  And then jumping jacks.  Remind you this is during the break.  then comes X-ups.  In these you jump and make an X with your body.  For some reason these drain me.  But in seconds we are back at it. me going all out again.  More punches later we come to time for kicks.  We start with knees.  Now here is where Tony and his (kids) have a special ability.  They can stay in one spot while doing these knees and kicks.  where I seem to move between 2-20 feet in any direction.  So done with some more its time for the next break.  All goes well until X-ups.  Remember how I said I really like this until I forget certain things? This is where that comes into play.  Now I am working out in my basement.  Which has a ceiling of about 7 feet high.  and right in the center of the room is a ceiling fan...  So I forget what I am doing and where.  I get about 4 in when I jump high and about put a hole in the ceiling with my right hand.  Ouch that hurt.  Okay you are fine keep going.  now this time I didn't forget what I was doing but I did forget WHERE.  I go up and smack my other hand into the ceiling fan.  Luckily I didn't turn it on.  So I have learned to be a little bit more careful.  The rest of the workout went well.  So on to another week and on to a better life.  I left week three with a pretty good Bang. (literally)  Week four here I come.     

Day Sixteen - Through Day Nineteen ... Wow I am behind

So.... I am really far behind on doing this.  I apologize.  I am still working out but switching schedules has made it harder to write right after I do my workout.  So since I am so behind I will fill you in on how thing went this week.  So plyo again kicked my butt.  I don't know if plyometrics will ever not come close to kill me.  I am starting to get better and in better shape.  I am not having to modify everything I do.  I still have a huge way to go.  It is hard to believe that when I started I could barely make it through it.  Actually things have gotten a lot better lately.  The workout I can seem to push harder and get through easier.  Not easy by any means.  But you get what you put into this program.  So I also recorded my self doing Yoga. That should be up soon. Now that I have recorded it I am kinda wondering is I should have.  Wow I look weird.  But other than that it has been another week a hard week at that.          

Day Fifteen - Bring It

Day fifteen... Starting week three. Oh yeah.  I don't know if you can see results but there have been a couple.  Those will get released after next week, if they stay.  Well Lets just say that after this workout I feel more accomplished than I have after pretty much any other one.  Day fifteen brings me back to Chest and Back.  While I am doing better; This is probably my worst workout so far.  I am terrible with pull-ups and not very good with push-ups.  But that's not stopping me.  Those pesky warnings don't scare me any more.  The warm up doesn't kill me and I can push through the whole workout without pausing to make sure I am not going to pass out.  My numbers are improving too.  With feeling more confident in my workout I decided to push myself even harder.  I not sure but this might have been a mistake...  So into the workout.  Push-ups  Go Go GO!!!  I do all I can First time out on each type of push-up.  And  Pull-up.  All of this without thinking that I have to do all of these exercises again....  Oh man  So here they came 2nd round sweating horribly.  The first I get to my max.  and then break it. Oh yeah.  One more? Push,shake, push, shake.  And up.  Okay this goes on through the next few exercises.  That is when I hit the wall!!!  That wall makes my arms feel like they are filled with sand.  But I still have moves to do so I go on.  Next set of pushups I get to one before my max and I can't push up?!  I feel stuck in the down position. I try again,  to no avail.  and again.  Finally I make it up.  Ouch.  Then comes another set.  I start down after a couple and boom I drop.  Oh why didn't I listen to Tony.  He told me to pace my self.  But nooooo Aaron had to push harder.  So since this is my fault I pick myself back up and try again this time with a little more success.  Then come the bane of my existence in this workout; Dive bombers.  Lets just say the last few of mine we should just call nose dive crashes.  I could almost get there when my face would hit and scrape the ground.  All in all I am happy I brought it.  Even if my nose has some rug burn!!!

Time to vote

So I have had some people ask if I was going to record myself doing a workout and post it.  I have decided to succumb to that dare.  Now here is the fun part.  You get to decide what work out.  It will either be recorded late this week or early next week, depending on what workout it is.  The votes will be counted and winner will be picked thursday at 4 P.M. when I get home from work to do my workout.  The workouts are; In order of day chest & back, Plyo, Shoulders and arms, Yoga X, Legs and back, And finally Kenpo X.  Comment here or on facebook or text or call me to vote.  Thanks. And long laughing.

Day Thirteen - A New Creature Is Being Made

Day thirteen starts kind of like like twelve.  Pretty good not sore and ready for the day.  It is a long fun filled day.  A little longer than I think i should have stayed up.  But late at night comes my workout.  And it's a mean one.  KENPO!!!!  Kicks and punches are on the docket tonight.  Last week this one kicked my trash.  Kinda tired too.  Oh well time to get to work.  Push play and go for it.  It starts good and keeps going good.  Now if you remember how in my earlier posts, I said that P90X was slowly making me go insane.  Well I was wrong.  I am not loosing my mind.  I am slowly turning into what I have termed a "P90X Zombie".  The change starts subtly with things like talking to the t.v. and yelling Tony on the dvd.  Then there other signs that take a little longer to develop.   They include doing the extra exercises and soon you are yelling along with everyone during kenpo.  These are just a few signs that the change into a "P90X zombie" are happening.  So now that we know that I am turning into a zombie, back to the workout. I think that I am rocking this workout.  Oh yeah... except when it comes to leading with my left hand.  Wow I am not a south paw.  Lets just say pretty uncoordinated.  Still I keep going.  Punching and kicking can be surprisingly tiring.  Then comes the yelling along with everyone.  Now looking back on it, it must have  hilarious.  But being a fledging "P90X Zombie" I do whatever Tony says.  And I will say this I might be becoming a zombie but I hope to be one fit good looking "P90X Zombie".            

Day Twelve - Shaky Leg

Yes... day twelve.  Day eleven was now a very good day.  Had my friends funeral and then a long day of work until two. So i didn't get in my workout done.  I really wanted to but I was just too tired to do it when I got home.  Which brings me here.
Day twelve.  So I have the day off.  I don't have to drag myself out of bed so it's going better already.  So later in the day its time for my workout.  Legs and back.  This is not on my good list.  This is one workout that works me ragged.  Get started and oh I remember now why I don't like this.  Lunge this way. Squat that way.  Then my legs get a break.  Pull-ups are up and done.  Back to legs.  They are starting to shake.  Wow this is hard.  Then again Tony turns evil again.  Wall Squats.  If you need some paint shaken up just let me know before I do this workout.  I cant make it 15 seconds in before I start shaking like a frightened chihuahua.  Man I used to be able to hold weights while I did these.  Then there was a little break from that and evil was reincarnated as one legged wall squats.  Can I just fall down now or do I have to start the exercise first?  I didn't know that my legs could feel like that.  I thought my legs would burst.  We were only doing it for 10 seconds at a time.  I must admit it that I couldn't make it through all of them. The last one on each side I would rise my leg and boom I fall.  I did my best and forgot the rest.              

Day Ten - Look Up Not Down

Day ten.  Wow getting up is a challenge.  Very reluctantly I get out of bed.  I get ready and head down stairs.  It's time for some arms and shoulders.  It is also time to use the new weight selecting dumbbells I just got.  I am steadily getting better at these workouts.  Okay, I don't know if better is the right word.  More like I am not extremely horrible.  So as I begin this workout I wonder how this one is going to go.  The last time I did this one it went pretty good.  Still tiring but it didn't kill me like the others did.  When I get into it a little way, it's time for a curls set.  I start and I look at my muscle while I do it.  Of course I look at my muscle and not my hand and dumbbell.  Smack!!!  Right in the forehead.  Ouch!!!!! Dang that smarts.  pause the DVD to check for blood.  No blood but a good bump.  Great way to start the day.  Push play, rub head  and continue.  Wow I like this workout.  SMACK!!!  OWWWWWW!!!  Dang it.  Okay that hurt.  Under the eye.  Okay not again.  Boy was I wrong.  Not long after that... BANG!!!  This  time in the nose.  Okay time to start looking up.  The rest of the workout went pretty smoothly. Until near the end of the Condon curls.  So three left and Bam!! Right in the kisser.  Seriously.  Again? So I finish that workout and go get ready for work, but not without something.  a new lesson of the day. Look up, not down.