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!

Monday, 12 May 2014

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 1 Chest + Back + Balance, Ab ripper

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 1

Chest + Back + Balance, Ab ripper

Well this was a strange one - because everybody was saying how hard it is and tried to pace myself but at the end - I was kind of - is that it! So I think I paced my self a little too much  as I still had some energy in the tank!

I enjoyed the workout though and although I said I paced myself I was almost at failure on most of my push ups and I did fail a few of my pull ups too so maybe my lack of strength paced me more than I actually did mentally - if you know what I mean?

I was pleased with my push up on the med balls - I only have 2 x 3kg med balls and 1 leather large 5kg ball so I didn't even attempt the 4 ball push up. I did those on 1 leg (which I've not tried before so that was cool) But I did try balancing my feet on the 5kg with hands on the floor - got that  . But when you put your hands on the med balls as well its a different ball game so will build up to that slowly. But it shouldn't take too long  

I also think that I need to build up more basic push up strength too as although I can now do full push ups 8 is about my limit and its about 6 on the med balls.
So I'm thinking either alternate this entire workout with balls and no balls or choose some of the push up rounds to do without med balls and see if I can increase my basic push up reps. 
Does that sound like a good idea peeps?

My assisted pull ups went ok, again with these I can only get about 8 out in one go before I reach failure but I'm aiming at an unassisted one so using as little resistance as possible to build up the strength so I think 6-8 hard ones is better than 15 easy ones?? As that number increases to 8-10 I will decrease my resistance again.

So looking at it - it's not really surprising doing a 6-10 reps every set on this workout is very different to doing 12-30 reps each set like most people  but we all have to start somewhere. As long as I keep improving and getting stronger and better I'm happy  . We'll see what my numbers are in 6 weeks time - that will be interesting  


Ab Riper went much better, I managed to get a lot more reps in so really pleased with that.



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