Monday, August 11, 2014

First Day!

Today is my first day of P90X!  It's been a bear already (one workout, slightly sore from the fit test).  Man, these workouts are tough!
The workout today is Chest & Back, about an hour long.

Each exercise was done twice.  I did the entire set once, then started it again.
After the first couple of exercises, I did pull-downs with resistance bands instead of pull-ups with a chair helping.

The resistance bands are different colors, which corresponds to different weights.
From lowest to highest weight (I don't remember the specifics they correspond to:
Yellow
Green
Red
Blue
Black

Standard pushups: 18, 15 on knees (k)
Wide front pullups: 10 w/ chair helping (c), 15 blue
Military pushups: 7k, 1k
Reverse-grip chin-ups: 9c, 20 blue
Wide fly pushups: 10k, 7k
Closed-grip overhand pull-ups: 20 red, 25 blue
Decline pushups: 5k - 0 decline, 4k 0 decline (these sucked!  I tried one, collapsed, hit my knee :( )
Heavy pants (pulling up to waist with flat back): 20 red, 15 blue
Diamond pushups: 5k, 0
Lawn mowers (like starting a mower): R 15 red - L15 red, R 15 blue, L 15 blue
Down-and-back pushups (downward dog, down 'under a fence', back up): 5, 2
Back flys: 15 red, 13 blue

Some of them were easier than I thought, so I went from a red band to a blue band to make it harder.

But that's not all!  Once the Chest & Back is done, we get to do Ab Ripper X!  One workout just isn't enough!  Ab Ripper X is about 15 mins long, and asks for (I couldn't do them all) 25 reps for each workout.

In-n-out
Seated bicycle
Seated crunchy frog
Wide-leg situps
Fifer scissors
Hip rock & roll
Pulse-up
Roll-up/V-up combo
Oblique V-up
Leg climb
Mason twist

If you want to know specifics, you can probably look them up on the internet.  The exercises are a little complicated, so it doesn't make sense to include descriptions of them here.

Anyway, that's all for today!  First workout, and it felt like it!

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