P90X Day 58 + The Abs Diet – Plyo X, The No Excused Workout Day
Earthquakes + Thunderstorms waking the kids up + hips that are enough out of align to cause discomfort leads to a P90X Plyo X session that was VERY difficult.
Just so everyone has a reference on me…I live in an area that seems to be getting a lot of seismic action. In fact, we’ve been having regular small earthquakes over the last few months. Last night was the first night I felt one. Honestly, it was a pretty cool feeling. BUT….it woke me up just after I got to sleep. And then my wife freaked out and could not get to sleep (and kept me up a bit with it).
And then the thunderstorms rolled in, freaked out my 3 year old, who ended up in bed with us using me as her foot prop.
Let’s just say, sleep has been a high value commodity around my house, and one that I’m not getting a lot of recently.
But…just like yesterday, NO EXCUSES. So I get up, I pop in Plyo X, and I push as hard as I can. And that was pretty hard today. I had to skip the bonus section (youngest woke up as I was preparing my lunch and would not let me put her down, so I started a bit late this morning) but still managed nearly 650 calories burned in about 54 minutes.
Sure, it would have been another easy day to just kick back, lay back down, get some more sleep, and just chalk the day up to one that I needed to do something else. Instead, I decided to get it in gear, do something to improve my health, and feel better for doing it.
Combine all of that with the fact that I am way overdue to see the chiropractor, and it was a round 54 minutes. My hips are actually far enough out of alignment to cause a slight numbness down my left leg into my foot. It also puts added pressure on the knee, which did not feel good. I had to modify a bit more today at times but just worked hard even with the modification.
Nutrition today was good. A few chips with supper, but accounted for in my intake.
Pre-workout: PB and banana on whole wheat
Post -workout: BB Results and Recovery Drink
Breakfast: Shakeology
Snack: Raisins
Lunch: Turkey on whole wheat, an apple
Snack: Almond
Supper – Chicken fajitas on whole wheat tortillas with a few chips and salsa
Snack: About to have a protein shake
Tomorrow is Shoulders and Arms, and I’m again dropping the weight slightly to lean out, burn a bit more, but still aim for only 12 reps. I’ll work on size/bulk later.
