Round 3 / Day 48: 2K3 Turbulence Training Workout Workout B + RKC Get Ups + P90X+ Abs / Core Plus (+ 50 Pull-Ups)

Before piling everything in the car and making a beeline for Southern California, M and I dutifully got up at 5:30 this morning to exercise.

Today's Turbulence Training routine wasn't too tough -- the stability ball moves and planks are fairly easy, and the rest of the exercises were fairly basic -- so I upped my weights and added brief sets of pull-ups at the end of each superset. By the end of my final set of Step-Ups, I knew I'd picked the right weights; I was just the right amount of exhausted.

Get-Ups are still kicking my ass, particularly when I'm doing them from my left (weaker) side. I may need to start wearing a helmet.

As for Abs / Core Plus, is it just me, or did Tony get a little too carried away with his attempts to add variety to the moves in P90X+? The exercises on the pull-up bar are great, but Cherry Bombs? Banana Masons? Raised-Toe-Iso-Leaning-Standing-Crunches? Are these moves really any better than those in Ab Ripper X?

Round 2 / Day 48: P90X Core Synergistics

I don't know if Adam just lost count or if he's full of shit, but 4G63t is right: Adam only does 12 Prison Cell Push Ups, and not the 18 that he reports to Tony.

This makes me kind of sad. It's like discovering that Santa Claus doesn't exist, that Mark McGwire got ass-injections of steroids, or that Milli Vanilli was a fraud.

P90X Day 48: Kenpo X

Using weights to increase the intensity of Kenpo X has really paid off -- I'm feeling the burn in my shoulders even during moves like knee kicks, when I have to reach overhead with my dumbbells before bringing my knee up to my chest. There is, however, a drawback to clutching weights while trying to keep up with the speed of some of the jabs, punches and blocks: After 45 minutes or so, one tends to get tired and a little sloppy. I ended up with a nice, purple bruise from slamming a dumbbell against my pelvic bone during the elbow series. All in all, though, it's not bad for my first P90X-related injury.