P90X Day One

Today is the day, day one of P90X. I dropped my family off at work and school and got home, cleared away my coffee table and got to it. As I said in my previous blog that when I first got my kit, I could not pass the fitness test. Well, I was surprised to see that I was able to do 4 pull ups with a chair. Before I could not get myself up even with a chair. So, wow, that's cool. Then with the weights, I was surprised to know that an 8lb dumbbell was cake. I will need to go buy a 10, maybe even 15 lb dumbbell. That is very cool.

Now, push ups. Well...I can do push ups on my knees. Again, in my fitness test I could do 2 or 3. Now I can do 30. I could not for the life of me do the decline push ups. I just sat there upside down, because if I tried to do the actual move I would fall face flat. But just sitting there in the decline push up position was hard and my lower abs burned. At the end of the dvd I was feeling kind of proud. I burned 400 calories in an hour, which is low for me, but it was not a cardio workout, just weights and chin up bar. Since I wasn't able to do it all I can only imagine how many more calories I will burn when I up my weight and can actually do a dive bomber.

The next step was the Ab Ripper X dvd. I put it in and was thinking it would just be a lot of reps of core exercises I already knew, nothing I hadn't done before. Well, I was wrong. ALL of his moves had to do with the lower abdominal. And some were moves I have never seen or tried before. By the 4th exercise I was almost in tears. Partly because I was angry that his moves were using muscles I don't have right now and part of me was mad that my body was this broken. All I could do was do a few Pilates moves I learned that help strengthen those lower stomach muscles while he and his crew kept going on.

I am nervous for tomorrow, but I am looking forward to how my body will respond a month from now.