I thought about doing the Recovery workout on my rest day. Instead I went to the doctor and got an antibiotic. I also got told to ‘take it easy’ so I may not be giving these workouts ‘my all’ this week.
That being said… wow! Today was tough!! Total body does in fact work the whole body. I expected one move for upper, one move for lower, one core move, one cardio move… etc. Instead I got one move for upper, lower, and balance… followed by another. I liked the complexity of the moves but had a hard time working hard on any one muscle group, mainly due to balance. An example move: one legged chair pose (leg & balance) while doing swimmer’s curls (arms). I could have increased my weights but don’t know that balance could be maintained if I did so. Same with Warrior 3 bicep curls. Maybe when I’m feeling better I’ll push it more and see what I can really accomplish. But, today I found myself just trying to get my body in the right position for the move. Sometimes I would get my body in position and get out 1-2 reps before time was out and/or I was falling over.
I did discover that I can more or less do pushups on medicine balls. I don’t get super low, but I can do it. I could even go up to side plank on my left arm. Apparently my right wrist is weaker because on that side I had to drop my knee to turn and raise my arm. I think my legs may have also been wider than necessary for this move… but I did it! (Or at least I did it on my left side.)
I only made it about half way through Ab Ripper. My reasons were threefold: 1) it was hard, 2) I was running short on time, 3) the doctor did tell me to take it easy after all! An odd feature of the first P90X2 phase (Foundation) is that Ab Ripper is only done once a week. Not that the core isn’t worked every day, but still odd to only do that workout once. With P90X Ab Ripper was done 3x per week every week except recovery weeks.
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