P90X Week 3 Shakedown

In case you haven't noticed, there was no shakedown post for week 2 on P90X.  Rest assured that we completed the workouts that week.  The short answer as to why no posting occurred is this: I AM EXHAUSTED.  

This program has me constantly sore and always tired.  I've literally fallen asleep at my desk at work at 8:30 in the morning at least twice since starting.  Granted some of the reason for my fatigue is that we're getting up to work out at 4 in the morning.  But I'm also generally in my bed and asleep by 9 at night so I'm usually getting a solid 7 hours of sleep.  

No, the main reason I'm so tired is because every single one of these workouts is leaving me in a heaping mass of jelly on the floor.  Doing that every day is...well it's tiring to say the least!

That being said, things are going quite well.  Week 3 is complete, all of my rep counts went up and some of my weight went up as well.  More satisfying is the way my clothes are fitting.  I haven't taped recently but my pants are much more comfortable than they were 4 weeks ago.  I'm not noticing a whole lot of definition yet in my upper body but I haven't taken a second set of pictures to compare yet.  Those should be taken this week.  Eventually, I'll move all of these posts over to a new portion of the site along with the pictures so that you can judge for yourself what the changes were.

This week is a built in 'recovery' week.  I use the term 'recovery' loosely because even though there are no resistance workouts on the schedule this week, there are still 6 hard workouts: yoga twice, core synergistics, cardio, kenpo and a stretching routine as well.  So yes, my muscles get to recover a little bit but we're still cranking out the cardio and body weight resistance exercises.

Next week we're taking a family vacation so it will be interesting to see how the workouts go in a new environment and on a new schedule.  I think we've got it all planned out miss only one workout and continue on the diet as well.  I'll certainly report on how it goes.