Round 3 / Day 33: One-on-One with Tony Horton - Recovery 4 Results

For a second, when I first woke up this morning, I flirted with the idea of doing Insanity Max Recovery. But then I tried to move my arms. (Let's just say that yesterday's workout was not kind to me.) And I thought about all the push-ups Shaun T would make me do. Can you blame me for pulling out the Recovery 4 Results DVD instead?

Round 2 / Day 33: P90X Legs & Back (But Not Ab Ripper X)

So I lied when I said I wouldn't exercise today, and ended up doing Legs & Back (which, as usual, kicked my ass).

But as a Christmas gift to myself, I skipped my scheduled Ab Ripper X workout, and did some Atomic Push-Ups instead.



Now: Time to watch the kids whip themselves into a gift-unwrapping frenzy under the Christmas tree.

Happy holidays!

P90X Day 33: Legs & Back + Ab Ripper X

Despite waking up dog-tired and not in the mood for exercise, I hit the alarm clock and dutifully rolled out of bed and into my workout clothes at 5:15 this morning. The P90X Legs & Back workout was especially tough today because because I hadn't done it in a couple of weeks; it felt like I was going through many of these moves for the first time. My exertion level was off the charts -- even for many of the squat exercises that I'd thought I'd licked (e.g., wall squats, deadlift squats, 80/20 Siebers speed squats).

The pull-ups, too, were more challenging than I'd expected/remembered. I thought I'd be able to dramatically increase my reps this time around, but while I cranked out full sets of unassisted chin-ups and pull-ups at the beginning of the workout, by the end of the hour, I had to keep a foot on a chair (actually, the top of our washing machine) to finish them. Ultimately, I upped my reps slightly, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped.

And then Ab Ripper X started. With my legs exhausted, I even had trouble with the hip-flexor-focused moves at the very beginning of the session. Ugh.

Am I regressing?