I am officially in Phase 3 of P90X! It is hard to believe this is my 57th day working out with the program. Reviewing the Fitness Guide before my workout, it is time for Chest and Back. I have not done with workout since end of Phase 1. This is part of the muscle confusion. Varying the workouts keeps your body guessing and helps eliminate the plateau effect you get with most workout.

Since I have not done this workout in a while, I was excited to compare today’s numbers to week 4′s numbers. Sure enough, there were significant improvements. Especially the pull ups and weights used. I am up to 10 pull ups unassisted and using 30 pound weights during the back exercises. I am really happy with these results and it is a great motivation to keep pressing play.

As I was reading the Fitness Guide prior to my workout, it mentions leaving everything on the mat this round. Pushing as hard as you can for the final stretch of P90X. This is going to be my goal for every workout for the remainder of P90X.

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I can not believe it, today is start of my week 7 with P90X. Looking back, I am proud of where I am at. However, it is time to take a self check. Time to do a little self relflection to ensure I am going to make my goals by day 90:

Things I need to work on:

1. No more cheating on meals. I have been doing great with my diet, but there has been some cheating. I am holding strong at 191, however I want to get to the mid 180′s. So I am going to tighten up the diet.
2. More weight. Looking at my tracking sheets, I am not seeing the steady improvements I was seeing early on. So, I am going to dig deeper and push harder to start increasing weight or reps during the routines.

The Workout

With my new goals stated, it is time to bring it! The Chest and Shoulder routine is solid. The slow-mo push ups are a burner to start and the triceps raises finish the program strong. Looking at my sheet, I did see improvements. For a lot of the routines, I used 10 pound weights, next week this will be increased. The reps may go down, but as long as I can keep good form, I will settle for more weight with lower reps.

P90X is a journey. It is not something that will happen overnight. I am over half way through and ready to make the changes needed to finish out and meet my goals.

Recovery week is over and I and I could not be happier. To celebrate the beginning of phase 2 I have a new workout, Chest, Shoulders and Triceps for my first day of the second phase. This is a great workout and the the exerices are presented in a different pattern. Instead of doing 4 exercises and then repeating, you are pounding through 24 exercises with minimum breaks.

When starting a new workout in the past, I would pace myself to ensure I had enough stamina to finish the workout. Today I pushed it through every exercise not planning for the end. Granted, I was beat for the one handed push ups, I was pleased with my progress. It is a good feeling knowing that I worked hard and made sure I was “Bringing it”.

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It has been over a week since I have been through Ab Ripper X. I forgot how hard this workout was, especially after you pushed it hard through the first workout. I had to hit pause 3 times during this final workout to ensure I got my 339 reps. There may have been a few missed Mason Twists. Overall I am happy with Day 29 and looking forward to tomorrow.

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