P90X - Day 57: History repeats itself

Feels good getting back to "real work", at least it does now. A couple of hours ago, not so much.

After spending some much time bitching about recovery week I was excited to jump into my workout today. I decided over the weekend that I was going to move back to the P90X Classic program for the final phase. I'm pleased with my weight loss and overall leanness so I want to put more effort into the resistance training. This brings me back to strength workouts and AbRipperX three times a week instead of two. No complaints here, I do feel I can still really benefit from the extra abs work.

So today it was back to my nemesis from all the way back on Day 1, Chest (pushups) and Back (pullups). Last time around it kicked my ass and left me puking my guts out. I was determined to nail it this time without killing myself. Yeah, right.

Anyway, I crushed AbRipperX, which REALLY surprised me since I hadn't done it in ten days. That felt good because as I mentioned yesterday I felt like I was getting loose in the cage during recovery week. I set a good pace in my pullups and pushups so as not to burn myself like I did previously. All was good through the first half and I was banging out my repeats until I started feeling that chilling, somewhat euphoric feeling that meant I was heading for a bonk.

Now that I've been through this twice I knew that no matter what I did I was going to be sick, so I finished my last two exercises before then I started downstairs to consume some sort of instant energy. I mumbled some words which must have been somewhat like language because my loving wife started making me a recovery drink while I went off to puke.

All things considered, not a bad day.
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