P90X And Primal – Chest And Back
This week I’ve restarted P90X to incorporate the upper body workouts. I still have a slightly modified schedule (doing Kenpo at the beginning of the week instead of the end, to keep my PT days lined up with my resistance days), but today brought Chest and Back back into my world.
A couple of rules I had to implement:
1. No pull-ups going beyond 90 degrees. Doing that fine with Legs and Back, so easy to do that here.
2. Lighter weights on all row exercises. May increase soon, but want to start light weight and focus on form.
3. All push-ups from the knees.
4. If I feel pain, back off. Keep in pain free range of motion.
So a lot of it was an experiment at first. I did notice my right shoulder bothering me some, so I had to cut the range of motion down quite a bit. I had no problem doing that as the point of doing this is to keep strengthening and get some exercise outside of PT on MWF’s.
Overall though I’d rate today a success. I completed the workout. No, not nearly as hardcore as I used to be, but complete nonetheless.
And did so without aggrevating things, which is good.
Primal food today was good:
Breakfast: Shakeology, 1 egg, 2 slices of bacon.
Lunch: Lots of Romaine lettuce, some shredded carrots, some bell peppers, half a on the vine tomato, some green pepper, and left over pork roast.
Snack: 1oz macadamia nuts
Supper: 6oz filet mignon, 1 cup mixed veggies sauted in butter, and a sweet potato with some butter, small dollop of sour cream, and just a small amount of cheese (had to get the fat content of this meal up!)
This was probably one of the most satisfying meals I’ve had. I’m not a big fan of taking that much carb at night, but based on how much training I did today I felt the extra little bit was warranted.
