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.
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