BodyBeast Phase 1 Build Week 2 Day 1

Thanks a million Craig  

I'm with you with everything you said - that's just how I felt/feel!!!

And to have you along to share the pain with would be awesome thank you.


Phase 1 Build Week 2 Day 1 (actual week 2 day 1 but beast week 2 day 2 hmmm?? maybe stick to beast weeks?  )

Build legs - oh how we all look forward to leg day  

It went much better for me today, kept up better with far less pausing needed.
Although they all seem to go just a little bit faster than me grrrr

I kept the weight the same for Sumo's as that gave me knee pain last week so I watched my form and all is good.

Lunges and Step up lunges I got much better this week and although very little weight I did increase each set unlike last week where I crashed and burned and had to drop the weights to finish  

I really feel the parallel squat is too light on its own but because of the horrible horrible Bulgarians that follow I daren't go too high! But I did much better than last week so pleased with that.

The calf raises I did more reps and ooh feel that burn  and increased my in and outs significantly so overall feel really good.

I followed it up with TH's 10 minute Trainer Yoga flex. I've not done it before but felt a quick stretch might also help the muscles. It's goes much quicker than I'm used to but overall nice to stretch all the bits out.

I even foam rolled my quads for a few minutes just for good measure  and I didn't get the 'painful walk down the stairs - oh god that's gonna hurt tomorrow' feeling afterwards so I'm hoping for much less doms. I really hope that not famous last words.

Body Beast Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 7 Build Chest and Tri's

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 7

Build Chest and Tri's

Really enjoyed Chest and Tris tonight. 

Got my weights mostly dialled in, Chest press still needs to be upped from an easy 6.8kg. 
My tricep kick backs were spot by only just managing the last few reps @ 5.6kg phew! 

Tricep push ups are crazy hard for me anyway and after being fried with kickbacks they are tough aren't they?

I'm still taking a bit of getting used only working 1-2 body parts each day - it feels weird and not what I'm used to but I'll get there!

BodyBeast Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 5 Build Shoulders

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 5

Build Shoulders

I started with a few mins foam rolling to help my doms in my legs still  

Shoulders was pretty good, short and sweat, with a few new moves for me.

Overall I enjoyed it. I worked my shoulders but generally it felt like a recovery day.

Need to make sheet so that I can see what weights I've done, and what I plan to up to so start making some progress / gains.

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 4 Beast Cardio + Beast Abs + LM Combat Inner Warrior Strength and Stretch

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 4

Beast Cardio + Beast Abs and I finished with LM Combat Inner Warrior Stretch and strength

This was pretty sadistic for me as I still have leg doms, so to sumo squat, lunge and squat some more was pretty painful!

Burpees and mountain climbers I still find tough but slowly getting better at them.

The push ups were tough for me but overall pretty good. I only used a 2kg DB for the weighted stuff except the renegade rows which I used a 3kg for.

I enjoyed the abs, pretty tame coma red the Ab rippers that I'm used to  

And I really don't think Sagi stretches us enough so I finished with Inner Warrior Strength and Stretch - which was just what I needed ahhh

BodyBeast Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 3 Back & Bi's

Thankfully I can walk and doms are not too bad phew! Strange thing its mainly in my right leg  

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 3

Back & Bi's

I quite enjoyed it tonight! 

Didn't go crazy with the weights 1.25kg up to 7.7kg for upper body and up to a light 17kg for Deadlifts. It felt great to Deadlift again and I'm looking forward to start lifting some proper weight.

The pull over really bothered my right elbow for some reason tonight? That was really weird?

But the bicep section got me a bit of pump going even with the light weights  Just a starting point to compare to at the end!

BodyBeast Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 2 Legs

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 2

Legs

Wowweeeee that is a leg workout and a half!! 

I expected brutal but the was BRUTAL!!!!! Had to drop my already light weights to get through it. 

The Super set was a lunge fest from hell - I can't believe the reps!!!! 
After doing a similar move in X2 with the step up reverse lunge I thought no worries I got this ...... how wrong can I be!   

Please let me walk tomorrow.

BodyBeast Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 1 Chest and Tri's

So Bodybeast here we go!!

Need to build some muscle so it seem the best way to do it!

Phase 1 Build Week 1 Day 1

Chest and Tri's

Interesting workout - it's pretty fast paced so really pleased I watched it through first.

I went really light on my weights for chest as lots of reps and I still want to be able to feed myself tomorrow  

Possible went too light for chest as apart from the flys causing a little shaking I hardly worked much at all but my body will thank me tomorrow and I can def. up the weights next session. (The first week of any new program is always trial and error till you know whats going on)

The weight for Tri's I got about right as they were pretty fried by the end.

Because I hurt my finger/grip muscles/arm pull starting the mower on sunday  I was wary and also could not put my hand plat for the push ups so I did all the push ups on my TH Power stands as it was completely pain free.

Bring on leg day tomorrow and hope my hand mends enough for pull up on Back and bi's - fingers crossed!

P90X2 Recovery and Mobility

Recovery and Mobility to iron out a few trigger points.

Been reading up on Body Beast and have previewed the first 4 main build dvd's.

Combat 30 Live and Inner Warrior Stretch

Did Combat 30 live just for a bt a change and to get rid of some frustrations.

Followed it by Inner Warrior Stretch.

Some of the Kata's take a bit of learning but overall great stretch and enjoyed it.

I have my hybrid planned out but on tonight I found out that a few Facebook group friends are getting together a Body Beast group starting on Monday!!!

I've been wondering about Beast for a while and thought I should save the pennies and ask for it as a birthday present in a few months but when the group was starting it seemed an ideal time to do it......so I bought from trust amazon and it arrived yesterday  and I'm gonna start with them 

I have my EZ Curl bar, 3 sets of Dumbells plus my Bowflex, and will probably use my barbell for Deadlifts. Just have to ease my bench out from being a storage bench later lol and I'll be good to go!

I'm really excited and looking forward to beast up   wish me luck

P90X2 Week 10, Day 2 PAP Upper

P90X2 Week 10, Day 2

PAP Upper

So today we went to the garden centre and putting a few bits in the car and had a weird shooting pain down my back and left glute  
I shook it off and carried on. 

Later had some more not impressed at all - half spasm have vervy pain??? I assume something is just upset and it will calm down. Took a nurofen to help with any inflammation. Got a going over with the massager and got to it.

Did my workout tonight but cautiously. I didn't do the step up part of the hammer press - I did 1 leg for rounds 1 & 2 and two feet down for 3 & 4.

I didn't do the med ball plank and did it on stable ground just to be on the safe side. After all the side plank holds yesterday and not sure what I've upset I thought better to be safe than sorry.

Got it done but after lots of careful consideration I think I'm going to finish X2 here. I don't want to quit with only 1.5 weeks to go but I think it's in my best interest.
I'm not enjoying thrashing my body in exactly the same way twice a week and really question the programming of this final phase. I feel like I'm loosing strength too. My push ups which were doing great seem to be worse than ever - 4 seems tough and 6 only just, when I was doing 8 great ones on 2 med balls!
My legs are doing ok being worked with all the lunges and step up but my upper body strength just seems to dripping away  

So in order to continue to work towards my goals of getting stronger and building some more muscle I feel finishing out X2 would only hinder my progress more.
I'm gonna take it easy the rest of the week and recover fully ready to start my own X based hybrid.

P90X2 Week 10, Day 1 PAP Lower

P90X2 Week 10, Day 1

PAP Lower

Upped my weights to 2 x 4kg tonight - and felt it too!

Still plugging away at the plank holds grrrrrr

My knee got painful again and had to pause to get some triggers to carry on. I think its the Mary katherines that are doing it grrrrr. This is the 6th session of Mary Katherines and my legs should be bloody used to them by now!!!

May try modifying to fast lunges to see if helps next session as reading my trigger point book they are coming from overloading the quad - and nothing will overload a quad like Mary katherines on crack!!!

These same two PAP sessions twice a week are going to get boring (I should say sameish rather than boring as I like variety) very quick but only 3 more of these sessions and I'm done X2 so I'll push on.

P90X2 Week 9, Day 6 PAP Upper

P90X2 Week 9, Day 6

PAP Upper

I did this downstairs tonight and it was much better. I had more room and could just move to each station  

For Renegrade rows I just did the rows each time and not the push up - that way I could get all 10 reps in and keep up with the kids  

I'm not attempting plyos as my wrist really doesn't like it so 1st and last round I did full push ups as fast as I could and 2nd & 3rd round I did knee push ups faster so like plyo but without leaving the ground.

The med ball planks I still find really tough and am taking 2-3 breaks to get through it  

I held the supermans for the full time each round:) 

I had to use bands for towel pull ups but It was easier so I could get more reps so probably not a bad thing. All 10 reps each time. Will try heavier black band next time and move further away.

Pikes are tough but got better as I went on like last time!

I did all the step up hammer presses with 2x 10lb / 4.5kg for all 4 rounds too  

and Roller angel is getting better too I can now do the full range of motion with my fingers on the floor  

So pleased with progress and it was good to enjoy it after being shell shocked last session!

P90X2 Week 9, Day 5 PAP Lower

P90X2 Week 9, Day 5

PAP Lower

Upped my weights to 2 x 3kg tonight and really enjoyed it 

I kept up ok tonight and managed to do more - knee and ankle felt good so did it all tonight 

Side leg bridge lift is still really tough so mainly holding the side plank with stacked feet but trying to hold the leg up a little longer each time.

Apart from no real time to grab drink or wipe the brow I actually like the pace of this one.

I'm going to try bands for towel pull ups for PAP upper tomorrow and do it downstairs where I have more room and hopefully enjoy it more 

P90X2 Week 9, Day 4 Recovery and Mobility

P90X2 Week 9, Day 4

Recovery and Mobility

Nice to iron out the kinks as usual 

Looking forward to having another go at PAP lower tomorrow 

P90X2 Week 9, Day 3 X2 Yoga

P90X2 Week 9, Day 3

X2 Yoga

Some DOMS to cope with today from the pounding that was PAP upper so yoga was good today. I nearly swopped it with Rec & Mobility but glad I didn't because after the hard work was done the stretches were much needed 

P90X2 Week 9, Day 2 PAP Upper

P90X2 Week 9, Day 2

PAP Upper

I don't know what to say about this one other than I was some how shell shocked! 
It went by crazy fast and the pace is relentless.

Similar to Lower in that 4 moves done in circuit complex, twice.

Renegade Rows (with push ups), Plyo push ups, forearm plank with feet on med ball for 60 secs, Superman with weighted bar for 45 secs

I think yesterday took more out of me than I thought because this was tough today. My push up strength just wasn't there on the Renegade Rows, which I normally really enjoy. I did 2 x 10lb / 4.5kg sets 1 & 2 then down to 7.5lb / 3.4kg because I just couldn't keep up with them.
Plyos I did fast normals on my knees, Plank I did the best I could which was better than I thought it would be and the Supermans I could hold for the full time in sets 3 & 4.


Towel Pull ups, Med ball pike, Step up Hammer Press & Roller Angel

Towel pull ups I also struggled with only managing 6 or 7 reps, Med ball pike was crazy hard even with no weight. I could do the step up (not really a step up just lean on the raised leg) I did 1st set with 2 x 7.5lb / 3.4kg but then did the rest with 2 x 10lb / 4.5kg. Roller Angel is well a roller angel I can do them but lots of work to do to get my elbows, and hands to touch the floor.

There is so much kit needed for this and I was in a small room and changing kit and moving on to the next move was craziness!!! I thought things moved fast in P90X3 but wow this was super fast, next to no breaks at all   

It felt like about 20 mins had gone by when it was actually an hour  
It was weird!!! I know new workouts take a little getting used to but boy my body feels a bit like it been rolled over with a steam roller tonight