Day 15 - Chest and Back

I'm ready to hit it hard this week, this is the last week before the recovery week. I'm still not sold on doing the recovery week, i might just continue with the week 1 thru 3 workout. I am not seeing any increases in any of the sets. I figured by week 3 I would be able to at least one more pull up, but that isn't the case. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, or maybe it's just early in the program, but for now I'm not any stronger and I haven't lost any weight since the start of P90X. Part of that is because of the diet and part of that is because I haven't worked out as hard as maybe I could, but give me a break, I'm doing more than I was before, so you'd think there would be some results since I've increased my calorie burn each day.

With all of that said, this week, I will not miss a workout and I am going to eat well. I am going to do the ab ripper three times this week and I am going to run at least 15 miles total for the week, in addition to basketball 4 times. If that doesn't work then I'm a horrible person.

I woke up really sore from the legs workout on Friday, basketball was good and my workout was decent, although like I mentioned I'm a little disappointed that my numbers are basically the same all the way across the board. I want to read other people's blogs and see if the recovery week is needed. i wander if my muscles will need that time to repair and then maybe after that I'll see better results. I want to be done with this program by our Utah trip, but that will only happen if I skip the 3 recovery weeks. I think for now I'll plan on doing the recovery weeks and just bring the DVDs to Utah with me to stay on track. I'll have to improvise for pull ups while I'm there. I'll look for an Anytime Fitness as well since I'm a member there. They'll have weights and a pull up bar and by that time I'll have the workouts memorized. OK, so that's what I'll do, writing it down made me realize that it's important to follow the program the way they've constructed it. It's not like I know better than them. Maybe I should be doing the Kenpo routine as well.

I ate pretty well today. Protein shake and an orange for breakfast. Soy nuts at about 10:00. I ate noodles with vegetables at lunch (probably not great, but I wanted some energy for plyo tomorrow), and stir fry with chicken and brown rice for dinner and strawberries as a desert. All in all it was a good start to the week.