Day One - P90X - Chest and Back - 1/21/12

So I am a bit late posting this blog, but it has taken me a lot longer to figure out how to put the videos together with I-movie on my computer than I realized. Anyway - Day 1 - chest and back. I wasnt expecting a whole lot when I went in to it, but I wanted to make sure I wrote everything down, and was able to set a bench mark for myself to build off. I feel like I held up alright in the first round, but by the time I got to the 2nd round I was exhausted, and my muscles were starting to fail a bit. At one point, when I Was doing the 2nd set of military pushups, I only did 5! In my notes, I wrote "are you serious" cause I couldnt believe that I could only do five fricken pushups, no matter what kind they were. Another exercise - the decline push ups I did 6 - which you cna see in my video. What you dont see is that I feel on my face/ chest trying to get up for a 7th one. I made it through the entire DVD though, I wrote everything down, and I knew that I cannot get discouraged. It was only my first day, and the fact that I finished was good enough.

Also, when it coms to the pull up exercises, I dont have a pull up bar, so I use the Lat Pull down machine, nad just use a weight that works, and keep track of it, and make sure I increase the weight if it starts getting to easy. It isnt the same thing, but I am just working with what I have.

Day one also has the Ab Ripper DVD and wiht that you do 11 different AB exercises 25 times each. Now I dont know about you, but I dont know anyone who is TRYING to get in shape that can do 25 times of anything right off the bat. I chose to start off with 10, and I did all 11 exercises with 10 reps, and figred that would be where I'd start. Even that was hard.

So after day one, I was feeling queesy, and was getting all dizzy, and just exhausted. It was a good first day though. You gotta start somewhere.