Day 11 -Yoga & 12 - Legs and Back

So when I skip a post it probably means I didn't do the workout, which is the case for Day 11's Yoga routine. I don't have an excuse, I just didn't do it. I woke up late and told myself I would do it after work, well after work there was an entertaining NBA game on, so I watched it instead while eating Pizza. Day 11 will go down as a bad P90X day, in fact it was awful.

Day 12 however, was a different story. i woke up and played basketball at a good level for 1 hour and 15 minutes, got home, put the DVD in the player and started Back and Legs. I even did the ab ripper. I completed all of the exercises except for the calf raises at the end, I felt like I was going to pull a muscle after a while, and since I've had bad luck with muscle strains the last two years, I missed about 20% of the repetitions. Today I also had a real hard time keeping my balance. It is definitely one of my weakest areas. All of the exercises that required standing on one leg made me look silly. I'm sure it's a mixture of balance issues and actual strength issues. As I get stronger I hope my balance will improve. The pull ups were a struggle and I'm not sure at this point if I'll ever be able to do them well. I am jumping up using a chair and then on the way down going really slow. I read on the Internet that that is a good way to get going if you can't do many pull ups, I guess you use the same muscles. So I'll do a few pull ups on my own and then use the chair to get to the peak and then release slowly to the bottom until I hit my goal. Hopefully I'll make some gains within the next few weeks.