The Average Joe Fitness

Did you ever sleep the wrong way and when you woke up your back or neck is just stiff and sore? Yep, hap­pened to me this morn­ing. I woke up with a sore back and when I got out of bed I could feel my lower back tighten up. I don’t know exactly what I did in my sleep, but it was sore when I woke up.

Today was sup­posed to be Ply­o­met­rics and I tried to do it this morn­ing, but with my back feel­ing that way that work­out was a no go. I decided to go with X Stretch, some­thing seri­ously less intense just to get my body mov­ing and to hope­fully loosen up my back. The three Sun Salu­ta­tions in the begin­ning of the rou­tine didn’t feel too great at first, but sev­eral of the stretches helped.

As I write this, I’ve got a heat­ing pad on my back and expect it to be fine for tomor­row morn­ing and Shoul­ders and Arms. I’ll do Ply­o­met­rics later this week.

My next round of P90X starts today and it’s back to on of my favorite work­outs, Chest and Back. It’s just push ups fol­lowed by pull ups fol­lowed by more push ups and then repeat.

It’s been a good while since I’ve got­ten nau­seous dur­ing this work­out. And I know this hasn’t hap­pened to just me since I’ve read other’s posts about their first expe­ri­ences with the Chest and Back work­out and that two com­mon searches that bring peo­ple here are P90X first day nau­seous and P90X Chest and Back nauseous.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I want to get sick while work­ing out. I was just think­ing back to the first few times I did this work­out. At the half way mark every time the nau­sea would kick in.

Here’s some start­ing stats (and end­ing stats for the round I fin­ished yesterday):

Weight: 229 lbs
Waist: 38″

And it’s Yoga X that will wrap up this round of P90X.

This round of P90X has been great. I may not have lost all of the weight that I wanted, but that by no means makes this any less suc­cess­ful. I still lost a good amount of weight, to the tune of 20 pounds. I also reviewed my work­out sheets from Day 1 to Day 90 and I see a notice­able increase in both reps and weight used for exercises.

I feel much stronger too and I’m not stop­ping here. I still have more weight to lose and I bet I can con­tinue to get stronger and more fit.

Since I took some time off a few weeks back, I’m not going go take time off now. I’m start­ing the next round tomor­row with day 91. See you then!

Core Syn­er­gis­tics 3 times in 6 days. My torso is feel­ing it, but I lov­ing the inten­sity of this routine.

I have the wind knocked out me each time about half way through, but I feel great at the end.

X Stretch rou­tine today. I’m enjoy­ing the recov­ery week and gear­ing up for the start of the next round of P90X next week. Bring It!

It’s been a while since I’ve done Kenpo X since I’ve been doing Core Syn­er­gis­tics in it’s place.

It felt good to do this work­out again. It’s still now where near one of my favorites and not as intense as the other rou­tines, but a change of pace is always good.

I enjoyed that change of pace this morning.

It feels like I just did this work­out. That’s right, I did. Core Syn­er­gis­tics on Sat­ur­day and right back at it again today.

It always seems that peo­ple talk about what yoga can do for the mind as well as the body. I’m not com­pletely sold on that, yet. But after today I’m def­i­nitely think­ing more about it.

The past few weeks at work have been unbe­liev­ably busy and stress­ful. But Fri­day of last week I was so men­tally fatigued and still felt it yes­ter­day But after doing the Yoga X rou­tine this morn­ing my mind feels so much more relaxed.

Now that could be com­pletely coin­ci­den­tal, but def­i­nitely worth think­ing about.

Choco­late has to be one of my biggest weak­nesses. I’ve always had a sweet tooth and choco­late can quickly get me into trou­ble. Today being Hal­loween it’s been tak­ing a good deal of will power not to dive into the candy that’ll be given out to trick or treaters. Have I had a piece or two? Yep, I’m not going to com­pletely deprive myself. But I have to make sure that one or two pieces doesn’t become more than that.

Core Syn­er­gis­tics was the work­out du jour.

Maybe for Hal­loween I should have gone with a P90X costume.