Day 5 P90X Legs and Back 1/25/12

Day 5 - Legs and Back -
Today is Wednesday, and I am feeling a bit sore, and tired from the Yoga DVD, but I wonder how much worse off I would feel if I didnt do it. Yoga is tough, and I am not flexible, nor have I ever been. It takes me a long long time of stretching consistently to actually get somewhat flexible. So with the yoga dvd comes sore legs, so the leg and back workout was the best thing for sore legs. working them out, and doing all the exercises will help to get rid of the soreness, loosen them up, and at least put off the soreness for another day.

The leg workout itself is HARD!!! I mean, as I read through each of the past days, I say the same thing about each day, but legs has always been the toughest workout for me. I think most people think/feel that way because so many times you see guys all buffed on top, with these little skinny legs on top. A couple of years ago i was working with a trainer, and he explained to me the importance of working out your legs. According to him, the legs are the largest muscle group of the entire body, and when you work them out, and work them hard your body naturally releases higher amounts of testosterone to help your body recover. when your body gets used to the leg workouts, the testosterone is still released, but is able to go towards healing and helping to heal and grow other parts of the body as well. After hearing that, I never had as much of a problem working out my legs, and always knew that if I wanted real results, I needed to not just work them, but kill them.

Today was also ab ripper, but I ran out of time to get it done. Now, when I walked out of the gym this morning I had every intention of getting to it when I got home at night. I also knew, that in the past, when I had tried to do this workout before, when something like this happened, and I made an excuse and didnt do it in the morning I would never get to it. So I am very proud to announce that I did get home from work, and did the Ab Ripper DVD in my living room. It was after dinner, after the kids were in bed, and I busted out the reps!!!

when it came to doing hte leg workout - they ask us to do between 20 and 25 reps and I was able to do somehwere in the range of 14-20. My legs were killing me, and I was dying, but 14-20 was all I could do and I Wasnt about to beat myself up over it. You can see from the videos that I am exhausted from the workout, but isnt that the point?

Day 5 is done! it doesnt seem like much, but it hasnt been easy, and I am still excited to keep on going. It is a start. And I am one day closer to my goal.