The Average Joe Fitness

While last week was about see­ing gains, this week was a real chal­lenge. I know, I know P90X as a whole is a chal­lenge, how­ever, this week my body was very fatigued. It was dif­fi­cult get­ting up in the morn­ing to work­out and I had to push harder than nor­mal to get going.

I looked at it a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent ways. This is the half way point for P90X, so of course my body is going to feel beat at this point. Next week is a recov­ery week, so I should be able to regain some of my energy then. Plus, with the changes I want to make, it’s not going to be easy.

While I still love this work­out and I still push play every­day, there are going to be days and weeks like this where every ounce of my body is exhausted and doesn’t want to work­out even though my mind does. That’s the mind­set I real­ized that I was going to need about halfway through the week.

The week started out with a needed rest day due to a work com­mitt­ment. The fatigue really hit me about halfway through when I really had to push myself with Back and Biceps. I decided to sub­sti­tute Core Syn­er­gis­tics for Kenpo X this week to do some more work on my mid­sec­tion. With the recov­ery week com­ing up, I’m look­ing for­ward to doing that rou­tine twice in one week. Here’s how the work­outs broke down through this week.

Day 43 — Rest Day

Day 44 — Chest, Shoul­ders, and Tri­ceps

Day 45 — Ply­o­met­rics

Day 46 — Back and Biceps

Day 47 — Yoga X

Day 48 — Legs & Back

Day 49 — Core Syn­er­gis­tics

Weigh In

Since I just passed the halfway point, it’s time to do a weigh in and post some cur­rent stats.

Weight: 230
Waist Size: 38″

In a way I was hop­ing to see the scale move down at a bit faster rate, but it’s only one met­ric. The biggest sign of improve­ment I’ve seen is with my belt. When i first started, I was at the first notch and now I’m on the fourth. So while the scale only shows a drop of 22 pounds, I’ve actu­ally lost much more due to the added mus­cle. The increase in strength has been incredible.

My clothes have been fit­ting much bet­ter lately and have had to go out and buy some new pants already. The khakis I had been wear­ing to work started to get a bit baggy.

The dig­i­tal scale I had, which also tracked body fat, died sev­eral weeks back. I’ve been using a reg­u­lar scale for the time being. I just ordered a new dig­i­tal scale so I can track body fat % again.

Related Posts:

• P90X, Days 64 – 70, Week 10
• P90X, Days 36 – 42, Week 6
• P90X, Days 57 – 63, Week 9
• P90X, Days 50 – 56, Week 8
• P90X, Days 31, 32, & 33 – Back & Biceps, X Stretch, Legs & Back
• P90X, Day 22 – Recov­ery and Yoga X
• P90X, Days 15 – 21, Week 3
• P90X, Day 11 – Rest Day