As I've mentioned before, the one part of P90x I've backed off on is the ab work. I paid for that today. You're supposed to do the "Ab Ripper X" program--16 minutes of exercises only a contortionist could love--after your "resistance" workouts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
I tried it the first day, did about 10 percent of the exercises, and decided to give myself a pass on this part of it. In the second phase, I started adding basic ab work (crunches, etc) after some of my workouts.
Well, given that this is spring break, I decided to beat myself up today and try Ab Ripper X again (I was also inspired by my friend who did the workout during his first week). It hurt, my friends. A lot. However, I probably did about half of the reps and that is progress. Also, there were a couple of exercises I couldn't even do the first time that I was able to do 5-10 times today. So that's progress, too.
Still, it was very hard, and it didn't help that each time I would stop a particular set because I was hurting, my pint-sized workout partner would say "Daddy, they are still going. Why are you sleeping?"
Daddy calmly suggested that his 4 1/2 year old join Mommy in the family room.
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