Rest Week my Ass

I'm into week four of P90X!!! Exciting, no?

This week is supposed to be the rest/recovery week (there are three of them throughout the program). I guess it's a little less intense than the normal weeks, but c'mon Tony. There's not so much recovery as there is long, core destroying workouts. The yoga X, which you do twice in this week (i'm pretty sure) is always difficult, at least for me. I think there's Kenpo X in there twice as well, and though it is fun, if you really put your energy into it, it's becomes less fun and more exhausting. Finally, a new routine is added into this mix (I think you do this workout twice this week as well) and it's called Core Synergistics.

I thought that it would be a shorter, more ab/oblique/quad/back oriented workout, and it kind of is. I haven't done it yet, but I watched the workout last night so I knew what to expect going into it, and damn, it looks harder than the plyometrics workout (which indeed made me puke the first time I did it). We're talking a nonstop workout that uses every single muscle group in your body. Many of the exercises use multiple groups of muscles, but typically focus on the core groups. There are many varieties of pushups, lunges, banana rolls (which look HARD, google them to see exactly what they are), and squats.

Thought it looks absurdly hard, it also looks like tremendous fun. I can't wait to do it tonight. Oh, I've decided to work out in the evenings now since I'm a terrible morning person and I can't seem to get enough sleep at night. I never fall asleep until after 11 and waking up between 5 and 5:30 just wasn't any fun. So, if I workout at night and fall asleep after 11, I'll be able to wake up at 7 or so and get enough sleep. Yay.

I'm starting to get more limber and my abs seem to poke through a bit more every day. Other than the obvious abdominal area, I want my chest to rip out more, and it seems to be doing so slowly.

Success!

-RB