Day 1 – Chest & Back/ARX

For this round of P90X I’ve chosen to do a P90X/One on One hybrid schedule. The One on One series is an awesome set f DVDs that are Tony Horton doing various workouts by himself. Like P90X there is a countdown clock, though it doesn’t have count downs for every move. Some have music but most don’t. I really like that they’re just him running through a routine, so they’re not polished and he makes mistakes.

One mistake that I made was that there are three series of One on One workouts. I have Vol 3. The P90X/One on One workout schedule is for Vol 1. Luckily I was able to deduce from the titles of workouts what would be similar in Vol 3 and have come up with a slightly altered hybrid of my own. I don’t know if this will end up being easier or harder than the intended hybrid. I don’t know if this will be easier or harder than straight P90X.

So, today is Day 1. It’s a Saturday. I chose a Saturday so that I could be halfway done my workout week when I go in to work on Monday (this assuming I workout in the morning). I also chose this schedule so that my day off could be Friday; a nice end to the workweek and start to the weekend. Plus, it’s Oct 1^st. This workout will (obviously) take 90 days, ending around the end of the year. I’ve preordered P90X2 and it delivers in time for Christmas… so I’ll start that for the New Year. Hopefully this will get me in good enough shape to do so!

Chest & Back is a nice workout. All pull-ups and push-ups. You just do each move to exhaustion. The first time I did this I remember being surprised at all the variations. This time my main thought was surprise that my arms aren’t in better shape. I mean, I lift a 15 lb baby ALL the time! But my arms were shaking when I was done.

ARX is Ab Ripper X. It’s a 15 minute routine of various ab/core exercises. Yikes! I used to love this one. I’ve a long way to go. I actually did this routine several days ago to see where I was. Today wasn’t really any better than that attempt. Turns out pregnancy does a number on the core muscles. My hip flexors are especially sore. It might be a while before I can complete the whole routine without stopping.