P90X3 Isometrix, Dynamix, Accelerator & BodyCombat 68

Monday was Dynamix chased with Isometrix and OMG I had forgotten how tough Isometrix is! Those 60 secs holds feel like an eternity 😞

Wednesday I did Accelerator - was a good one but tough for me because of all the Plank work ☹️
Will my shoulder ever get strong enough to do all the plank work in these programs??

I’ve been crazy busy and stressing over all sorts of stuff (and comfort eating) so today I decided to punch and kick the stress away and burn some of those chocolate calories away 😝 with Les Mills BodyCombat 68 - wow did I need that!!!

P90X3 Isometrix & 21DFE Yoga

Active rest day yesterday with 1.5 hrs of mowing, digging and more digging.

Recovery day for me today with P90X3 Isometrix and its ages since I've done this one and it showed!
Tree pose is the easiest for me by far.

Chased it with 21DFE Yoga ;)

P90X3 Isometrix

This is still a very tough workout but in a very untraditional way lol.

Makes you work on your balance that for sure! Nice little recovery workout though.

P90X3 Isometrix

Some of these are still tough but my upper body strength is noticeably stronger

P90X2 Week 7, Day 5 (more recovery) X3 Isometrix

P90X2 Week 7, Day 5 (more recovery)

X3 Isometrix

Wow I had forgot how tough this was! I'll try an add this into my rotation more often because as Tony would say - "this has got to be good for you!"

My foot is fine now but my knee still isn't happy yet, thought all ok till I had to go jogging after a lost courier this morning!!! And it was pretty painful  so I'm unimpressed with that, but hopefully a few more low impact days and it will be right as rain for fridays base and back (and no I won't be going crazy with the plyo stuff in it!)

Plan is X3 yoga sat, sun off completely, X3 Total Syn Mon, Combat 30/45 or 60 but no jumping Tues( I desperately wanted to try the new Knepo Cardio plus but there is too much jumping in there for me at the mo'), X Stretch Wed then time to finish off last week with X2 Shoulders & Arms + AB ripper Thurs, X2 Yoga Fri and then X2 Base & Back + Ab ripper on Sat 
Then the following Monday I will start X2 Phase 3 Performance and see what all this PAP fuss is about?

X3 Isometrix

X3 Isometrix

Wow some of these are so tough! Most of the lower body stuff I find ok but the upper body plank stuff is hard and the Bound Dog with left lift is just comical  

Got through it so it's all good!

I'm gonna try and lower my Carb intake this week like the book recommends. Don't want to be too crazy and leave myself with no energy again but I think a little cut back might be good. 
Will probably skip my recovery drinks for most of the workouts this week too as they are not that demanding or calorie burning high. 
Except Accelerator tomorrow - I think that one is fairly intense if I remember??

P90X3 Isometrix

X3 Transition Week 8 Isometrix

Phew some of these 45 secs holds are tough and some are easy 

I needed the rest today though so isometric was good - get something down and sweat some but not completely knackered after it ahhh 

P90X3 Cold Start followed by Isometrix

So X3 Week 4 Transition week ( I think they chose this name instead of rest week because something tells me Rest week it's not - it's just difference to the last 3 weeks )

Cold start (just because I like to be warmed up) followed by Isometrix  

Well I'm not quite sure where to start with this! Half of it was crazy hard as in I couldn't do it for even half the time and the other half was pretty easy for me  

It really showed up my weaknesses - I thought my upper body lacked strength but wow this really shows it up in great neon flashing lights  

There's a upper body balance move on the floor move followed by a leg balance move - i.e. get into plank position and lift 1 arm up and stay there for 45 secs  now standing leg extension and yeah stay there for 45 secs (this wasn't so bad as we did some of these in P90X) - now repeat on the other sides!

Now get into plank and raise the arm like before and now raise the opposite leg  and stay there for 45 secs  etc etc.
Another was single arm sphinx ..for 45 secs! - Side arm balance for 45 secs (this was my best upper body one I lasted about 25-30 secs I think)c etc.

I won't list them all but basically most of the stuff that involved my upper body I just could not do for 45 seconds  

Later on you do Warrior 3 - I could do that for 45 secs:) , and we did Tree for 45 secs - I can do that even Ted's version looking up  that was a walk in the park for me for some reason! But we have had lots of practice from X yoga so not really a surprise  

Looking forward to mastering all the hard stuff in this workout  

We did crane/crow at the end for a few secs and then that was it done! Now crane has always been one of those I've kind of played at knowing I couldn't really do it but I tried for a few minutes after the workout was done and OMG I actually got my toes of the floor for about a sec or so. 
Seems silly to celebrate a second but I was really amazed how I am beginning to feel like I can, with more practice and strength, actually manage crane. All that balance work had done something for me already and I felt more solid in the position so wahoo! progress is still progress 

HRM 52 mins 330 cal 55% fat Max 146 79% Avg 117 63%