Day 2 - P90X - Plyometrics - 1/22/12

Day 2 everybody, Plyometrics or what they refer to as "jump training" It is Sunday morning, and I am trying to get myself used to waking up early and going to work out first thing in the morning. I am doing this, because i know that getting up at 5am on a Monday morning to go and work out is going to be tough. That is why I started on the weekend, figuring i could give my body a couple of days to get used to working out and doing it first thing out of bed.

When you first start working out, especially if it has been a while since the last time you trained, or if you've never trained at all, your body goes into a bit of shock. It has no idea what you are doing to it, and doesn't know if this working out stuff is something that it is going to need to get used to. Your eating habits get out of wack, your body needs more fuel (food), and you will find yourself hungrier more often. The other I notice almost immediately after I start working out after a long lay off like I had, was that not only does your body get hungrier, but it will not be satisfied with crappy, unhealthy food. It needs nutrition to feed itself, to help rebuild and repair the muscles you've just exhausted so things like donuts, candy, chips, or fast food are not going to cut it. The other thing is that I am soooo thirsty, and I need water often.

My energy level is feeling pretty good after day 1, and going into day 2 i was just hoping to keep it up, and give myself a benchmark to build off of. The Plyometrics DVD is very intense and gets your legs absolutely burnt out, and it is very touch cardio wise also because you are constantly moving. The dvd is about an hour long, with 10 mintues of warm up (more or less) Within the first 20 minutes of the workout my legs were already tired and I was wanting to take a break. At around the 40 minute mark, my legs started giving out, and I had to pause the DVD and give myself an additional 30-40 seconds of recovery in order to keep going. I did it though, and walked out of that room on wobbly legs, sweating like crazy, and feeling absolutely GREAT!

I am not seeing any results obviously after 2 days, but I am feeling good that I have started.