Today Jered and I got to experience the wonderful world of P90X PLYOMETRICS! I started this workout with Jered's catch phrase in mind...BOOM BITCH!...in order to psyche myself up after a vigorous swim this morning and a wonderful time of ab rippers yesterday afternoon. After about 15 minutes, however, I was starting to feel the edge wearing off of my excitement and began to realize why it is called a WORKout. I was starting to sweat and breath heavily and we had just gotten through the warm-up drills! How was I going to survive another hour of this hell? Only one thing kept me going...my sheer awesomeness! Just kidding. I was actually motivated by being with someone else at a higher fitness level than myself to whom I could compare myself and push myself to match. That is something I've really been missing in my workouts lately and I believe will be one of the biggest determining factors in this exercise program. It's so easy to slack-off during workouts and not push yourself if you're not being challenged and don't have someone to compare yourself with. When you have someone else you can try to match them and even have a little mental competition going on with them so that you push that little bit harder to finish the set or time limit.
The exercises were actually pretty good, though they focused A LOT on squats. I wasn't really surprised by this, although I had honestly expected much more long and high jumping than there was. Most of the exercises were short span and height, which I suppose helps in fine-tuning the workout and maintaining proper form. Nevertheless, I was sweating bullets, drank a 32 oz Powerade Zero, and swore at Tony quite a bit (sorry mom!). I haven't done a complete plyometric workout since high school and forgot how easy it is to get tuckered out just jumping around. I have a feeling I'm going to be walking like a penguin for the next couple of days after all those squats, and I've already almost face-planted several times while walking up stairs.
Tomorrow is shoulders, biceps, and triceps and I can't wait to see what P90X has in store for us! Hopefully I won't whine too much during the workout but I can't make any promises.
I guess I just need to take it up a notch...TO THE X FACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(This is Tony the P90X guy and believe it or not this was actually not the stupidest picture of him. But, it summarizes the guy quite well without any words...)
3 comments:
You're waaaaaay hotter than Tony. :-)
you and Jered should take before and after pics like the ones on the infomercial!
I definitely agree though about the partner thing...it did me a lot of good to have jered working out with me...cuz he is way better than me. Henry though..not so much, he gave up too quickly and that didn't help me to keep going.
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