Finally, a workout for the hockey player in me! As much as I am not in shape, my years of playing hockey finally paid off in P90X. First of all, I knew I was going to have a good workout when one of the exercises was called "Super Skater". I guess my muscle memory for skating hasn't faded and my skinny legs are (as they always have been) are still freakishly strong!
My observations of this workout:
This was very tough on the legs. The back workout was tough but fair. Mostly pull-ups. Here are the names of the exercises:
Balance Lunge
Calf Raise Squat
Reverse Grip Pull-Ups (I did 10!)
Super Skaters (Yeah- I killed on this one!)
Wall Squat
Wide Front Pull-Ups
Step Back Lunge
Alternating Side Lunge
Closed Grip Overhand Pull-Ups
Single Leg Wall Squat
Deadlift Squat
Switchgrip Pull-Ups (Pretty much impossible. I couldn't switch without starting over!)
Three Way Lunge (I got confused on this one)
Sneaky Lunge (Best name for an exercise. It sounds dangerous!)
Chair Salutations (Hellooooo, Chair!)
Toe Roll Iso-Lunge (I don't think I did this correctly)
Groucho Walk
Calf Raises
80/20 Cyber-Speed Squat
I liked the variety and the back and forth between muscle groups. I think the exercises with pull-ups allow people like me to get longer rests because I was drinking my water while they were doing 10-20 more reps. Overall it is a good workout no matter how many pull-ups you can do. I did feel better with these than I did on Monday.
I spent a lot of time pausing and rewinding (well, skipping chapters- which is very handy, by the way) because Tony just says what we are doing and goes to town. Again, I didn't watch this in advance. It's a good idea to do so, but it wasn't practical for me today. I also got confused in a few of the exercises. The Three Way Lunge wasn't complicated, but the camera angles messed it up. Of course I was sweating and hurting so much at this point, I wasn't listening to Tony as much as I should. He said "45 Degrees" and I heard "45 reps you out of shape loser!"
The alternating side lunge was tough because my workout area isn't exactly huge. Tony, take it easy on those of us whose workout spaces aren't much more spacious than a bathtuib. If I were a little taller, I wouldn't have been able to do this horizontally (I already told Tony that I don't like his assuming I can workout Vertically!).
Ab Ripper was easier and harder. Besides learning the secret to doing the workout without a shirt (Adam the amazing muscle bound flexible guy did it and it drove me crazy because everytime I moved I sounded like I had beans for dinner!) I picked up on things I had been doing wrong for the past two times. I really like that there are options to make it harder, which will be a challenge that I'll want later on. For now I'll just try to survive.
I also think a great design of the program is that the Ab Ripper X program is at the end of each program that you do on Ab Ripper days on. This is very handy, because Ab Ripper X comes on a DVD as well, and since I am on the floor already it wouldn't be physically possible for me to get up and change the DVD. Now it would be even better if the next version ejects the disc, turns on the hockey game and brings me the recovery drink personally. I'll buy that version for sure.
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