P90X Day One: Arms and Shoulders + Ab ripper X

So today was day one of my P90X workouts. I had to switch it up a little from the normal routine because I did not have the Chest and Back DVD with me, but I figured I could just switch the two days and it woud not really hurt anything. It was a damn good workout, and although my left shoulder is feeling like it wants to give me problems, I feel damn good all-in-all. I love working my shoulders and arms, if there was a way to maintain overall body fitness off just working those two muscle groups, I would surely do it. So this workout is right up my alley. I did find out that I needed to do a little more research though. I only had a pair of 5lb dumbbells at my disposal thinking I didn't want to go to heavy for my first time, but after putting in the DVD I came to find that you can actually use a little heavier set of dumbbells. So I decided to analyze the situation and adapt to what I had available to me. The result...

I ended up using the 5lb dumbbells and just doubling the entire workout. I ended up doing supersets as well. Three exercises per set with no rest between exercises and only 1 minute rest between supersets. So my workout went something like this:

Superset One: exercise one x 12 reps each arm, exercise two x 40 reps, exercise three x 30 reps followed by one minute rest and repeat the superset

Superset Two: exercise one x 24 reps, exercise two x 20 reps, exercise three x 21 reps followed by one minute rest and repeat the superset

Superset Three: so-on-and-so-forth until I completed the entire workout. It ended up being a very good workout and I managed to work up a pretty good sweat, which I kinda was not expecting considering I ws using lighter weights. But it worked out really well for me. Just for next time I am going to go by a set of adjustable dumbbells because I want to lift a little heavier then 5lbs haha.

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P90X Ab Ripper X

Holy crap! I used to do this with a buddy of mine a couple years ago and I do not ever remember it being this hard! My abs were killing me by half way through, but I told myself that my daily goal is to do all the reps no matter what. So 307 it is! My lower abs are still hurting, and it has been almost a half hour since I completed the workout. I do think it is a beneficial workout though. It covers a good variety of ab exercises which hit the upper, lower, and oblique portions of the stomach. Hopefully, with some luck, this will benefit my situps portion of the APFT test. More importantly, I hope it benefits my stomach and gets me that much closer to having a six pack :)

I have always wanted a six pack, and while it is now understandable because I am a fatty, it used to elude me though I ran track, played just about every sport you can imagine, and ran upwards of 9 miles a day. But I think this is the start of something new and definitely the start of a six pack ;)

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I know that it is kinda unfair to post the exercises while naming them as exercise one, exercise two, or exercise three, but I am not sure how naming rights and all of that works. I know it was hard as hell to find details of the workouts though, and that leads me to the impression that BeachBody does not like their information being posted online for everyone to look at and benefit from. I may decide to post the actual workouts on here in the future, but for now... it is better this way.

Tomorrow I will be posting my before pics up here as well as my Monday workout routine. So stop by and take a gander when ya get a chance.