Welcome to my fitness log

I've created this to keep everything to do with my fitness journey in one place for easy reference.
I've listed links to places I visit regularly or places I think are interesting or valuable resources.

I started doing Crossfit September 22nd 2009 and I loved it - it's totally awesome and it made me a better person in so many different ways!

After nearly 4 years of Crossfit and wrist injury I tried a home fitness DVD for a change and something new - Rip 60 was really great and then I found Beachbody / Tony Horton's P90X!
It's THE best home fitness program ever!!!
It changed my body in so many amazing ways and got my cardio fitness, my core and overall strength including push up strength better than ever before!!

I now do many Beachbody programs as they are all so great.
I 'm a big Tony Horton fan because he makes me work hard but makes me laugh at the same time.
After I completed P90X, I did P90X3, P90X2 and some P90X+. I''ve tried other Beachbody programs including the P90, Piyo, Focus T25,
21 Day Fix Extreme, Country Heat, BodyBeast and Insanity, The Aslyum 1 and 2. Completed 21 Day Fix and 22 Min hard Core.

Did some Insanity Max 30 and Core de Force but my knees can't handle jumping every day so I have to mix them in.
Shift shop is great and looking forward to the new 80 Day obsession.

I'm the fittest I've ever been in my life and still getting stronger every day!

Thursday, 20 February 2014

P90X3 Decelerator

X3 Decelerator 

Wow what a workout! Full body workout this one with strength, balance with a touch of cardio from the pace!  

Some of the upper body push up stuff was really tough for me! Those crane cracker push ups are ridiculous  
I tried a little too hard I think and upset my shoulder a little due to poor form = stupid! 

The elevator pull ups weren't so bad, but I couldn't keep up, hanging there trying to keep up as Tony shouts 'top floor....bottom floor....middle floor.....top floor' etc etc (They don't sounds like 21 pull-ups to me Jonathan - I didn't do them in the bit of X2 I did though)

The chin ups pulls (chin up then raise your knees) were surprising good for me I obviously still did them assisted but my strength felt good and I could hold at the top while I brought one knee up and the first few almost felt easy so that's a great sign  

The elevator tiptoe squats were ok, I managed those lol but they are a thigh burner! Along with the spinning plyo squat lunges that made my legs shout mercy  

and I just had pause to catch my breath before I could even think about going straight into....Big brother burpees - lol are you ready .... Jump to plank, do push up, tap right knee to right tricep, open up into side arm balance, lower back to plank, jump your feet up and jump knee tuck...repeat on the other side  


All in all I enjoyed it, my upper body strength needs to improve for me to enjoy this more but I'm getting there, I couldn't have dreamt I could do some of these moves when I started so great progress made and lots more to make 

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