I'm Hungry

And P90X is on the menu baby! If you can't tell from my posts DURING the workout, things were going pretty well. Apparently my bad recovery week didn't negatively affect my performance today. Coming into today's workout I was a little worried to be honest. It's been six weeks since doing the Chest and Back workout, and after Muddy's run in with the porcelain goddess my hopes weren't very high. Thankfully my worrying was all for naught.

Lets do a little math to compare my week 3 results with today:

Total Push-Ups

• Week 3 - 196
  
• Week 9 - 265 (35% increase)

Total Pull-Ups

• Week 3 - 56 (93% assisted)
  
• Week 9 - 35 (0% assisted)

Unfortunately there's no straight comparison for the pull-ups, but look at it this way. When starting P90X I was scared shitless of pull-ups because I was always so bad at them. Today when I hit the bar my first question was, "alright... how many are we doing today FT." That's a significant (and much more positive) attitude change.

There are a few other factors that make today even better. First, I busted through the first couple of sets of push-ups without even thinking about it. Push-ups have always been solid for me, but I felt like I was on a roll. During the first exercise I hit 30 and thought, "Uh, okay... I guess I should stop." I got up with more time left than I knew what to do with and my arms barely noticed. That's a nice feeling.

I want to push my reps up to 40 during week 11 for the exercises that I hit 30 on this week (which is 3 out of the 6 push-ups sets). Second, I did solid decline push-ups without falling flat on my face. I remember during weeks 1-3 that I was so worried about braining myself during that exercise. Not so today.

The only bad part of the workout is that I killed myself so thoroughly that I bonked HARD at the end. I didn't care though... I felt great despite my head spinning in 10,000 directions at once. I didn't have to visit the commode to release my late lunch, so instead I took a self portrait of me sitting down while I thought I was going to pass out.

As Tony says while finishing his plyo push-ups, "ARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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