Day 32 - Yoga

I'll never be good at Yoga. It's just hard.

Day 31 - Arms and Back

Good workout, just as hard as Mondays. This phase is definitely more difficult than the first phase.

Day 30 - Plyometrics

I waited until the evening to do plyometrics, and sadly I got a phone call saying Jason had just got into a major car wreck, so I spent a few hours at the hospital and got home after midnight. No plyo today.

Day 29 - Shoulders, Tri's and Chest

Last night Christine and I completed the first day of week 5 and what I consider at this point the hardest workout routine in P90X. We struggled mightily! I'm not sure if it's partly due to the 3 week layoff from actual weight lifting or if the routine itself is just harder than the rest. My wrists were very sore and each exercise tested me to my breaking point. I can tell I will be very sore come Wednesday. Nonetheless, we finished the routine even though we didn't start until about 9:30 PM. I told myself I wasn't going to do it at about 8:00, but Christine gave me an evil look and I thought she would slit my throat if I didn't do it, so I changed and joined her in the garage for what ended up being a good workout.



I'm a bit discouraged at this point because I definitely feel like I've digressed in the strength column, probably because we took some time off in between the two phases. But it is what is and that is real life, so the 3 week layoff is going to be a very real part of my life that I will just have to learn to deal with. It's not like I didn't workout during that time, in fact I got a lot of exercise, but P90X took a back seat for sure. So from this point forward I need to put my head down and just do the workouts. My target finish date is September 26th. That's 4 weeks longer than originally expected, but I missed two weeks of workouts and I'm making up for that by adding weeks in each phase.

Phase 2 and My New Plan

So, I haven't blogged in a while and I haven't worked out since my last recovery day which was 2 weeks ago. Instead of starting over at phase 1, I am going to continue on to phase 2 and pretend that I'm right on schedule, but instead of using 90 days it will be about 120 days. The next month is a pretty busy one, so i am going to have to schedule my workouts around vacations and miscellaneous trips. Here is the idea:

This week is week 5, the first week of phase 2. I will do phase 2 for the next 4 1/2 weeks until I leave for Utah. There will also be one week during those 4 1/2 weeks when I will be on the high adventure. That in fact begins next Monday. We leave late enough on Monday that I will be able to fit in a workout on Monday and then we get back early enough on Friday that I can fit in a workout on Friday. During the week, I will go running and since we are constantly on the move doing hikes, swimming, biking, etc. I think that week will be pretty well covered for workouts. I will also do Wednesday's lifting workout (which I will inevitably miss) on the Saturday after I get back, that way I will only miss out on yoga and Plyo. I'll be in Utah and on the Oregon coast for a span of 11 days. That will be my recovery week. Once I get back from the coast, I will begin phase 3 - the final phase in P90X. I shouldn't have any interruptions those last 30 days, and my plan for now is to prolong phase 3 by one week to make up for the last 2 weeks of inactivity.

So by adding a week onto each of the next two phases, I feel justified in not starting over from scratch at this point. While I'm in Utah and on the Oregon Coast, I will do my best to do all of the recovery workouts, but I'm sure I will have to modify a few of the routines to fit the circumstances.

Although I didn't finish my phase 1 blog, I did finish the end of the reocvery week. The following week came around and Christine was out of town and I just didn't get to phase 2. The next week came and P90X was the last thing on my mind, so I skipped last week as well. But here's to a new beginning!