P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 5 Yoga

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 5

Yoga

This was tough again today! All the Sun Salutations are really tough after Arms and Shoulders yesterday. I also spent an hour and half building some garden furniture too!

Those standing splits/squat knee to forehead thingies are really tough still grrrr

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 4 Shoulders and Arms + Ab ripper

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 4

Shoulders and Arms + Ab ripper

Great workout, loved this today! 

Was a little unsure of weights and reps on the first time as usual but got it sussed for next time. It's 3 rounds the same so I think next time I'll aim for high reps, low weights the first round, medium reps and weights round 2, then 3rd round take the balance element out and go for low reps high weight! 
Sound like a good plan?

Some great new funny jokes from Tony today which made a refreshing change and made me smile and chuckle  I even had to be careful not to smash my face when the 'don't smash your face' comment came up lol

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 3

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 3 Spent an hour moving some fence posts and panels about then a load of shovelling soil and garden stuff - phew! Recovering and Mobility but slightly shorter - I just skipped the lunges, squat press and toe touch bits as they are just the before and after test to save a bit of time. Felt much better afterwards as I needed to get a few knots out and help the doms that are still there from mondays chest & back  . Bring on Shoulders and Arms tomorrow

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 2

P90X2 Week 5, Phase 2 Strength, Day 2

Plyocide

Loved it and also got a new personal best of managing to to do the single leg hops for 30 secs  

I kept cramping and stopping at around 20-25 secs but tonight I made it through wahoo!

I only used a 1.25kg plate tonight for med ball but went for it. Had a few interruptions but got it done!

Last bit didn't go quiet so well as last time because I was little knackered but it's all good 

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.

X Stretch

X Stretch

Nice to stretch out as usual.

P90X3 Yoga

X3 Yoga

Nice yoga session - I like the quicker pace of this for sure  

My right shoulder (well front delt) it seems upset again from those table dips yesterday so that's a shame and unexpected but it should be fine in a day or two.

So just X stretch tomorrow, rest sunday and then I'll be totally ready to bring on strength phase for real this time lol.