DAY SIX

KENPO X

I've done it! I've completed a week of P90X. Tomorrow is just stretching - I can even take a rest day if I want. So, I'm considering today the end of the week.

My legs are still very tired.

Kenpo X is like Tai Bo (How do you spell that? Is Billy Blanks reading? Could you clarify for me?). It's all jabs, punches, upper cuts and kicks. I think this is another one that I'm going to really enjoy once I get a better grip on the smaller moves in each set. I always want to lead with my right hand. It was frustrating and funny. It was a mental challenge today. Who needs Sudoku?

I stopped by a fitness store today and picked up some gear. I got a new (tighter) resistance band for my chin ups and I got push up bars (or are they handles? They look like handles - you grip them instead of keeping your hands flat on the floor. Considering I'm doing over 100 push ups on Mondays, I might as well do what I can to make them better.)

Don't worry - I did find a solution to my chin up issue - no more rubber bands snapping at my stomach. I now put the band around a spindle in the stair railing going up stairs. It's metal, so I'm not too worried about hurting the railing. (That would be a pretty cool testimony to my strength though!) Anyway, now that I know where to kneel to get the best movement in, I'm not scared of the chin up sections of the two videos. B1X would much prefer that I'm using a real pull up/chin up bar - but considering this is something that women are normally not very good at, I think going through my first round of P90X with a resistance band will have me ready to graduate to a pull up bar next go around.

I really believe in this program and the results I'm achieving. I know this may fluctuate throughout the program, so it's probably important that I comment on it when it's positive - just in case I have to read over my own notes later. ;) It is a really hard program. And it does leave me sore. But - I LOVE that all I have to do is press play. It's like having a personal trainer who lives with me. Better than that - a personal trainer on demand. I loved having a trainer - but I didn't like doing the other workouts during the week without her. She could challenge me, keep my heart rate up and I didn't have to think, I just had to do. And this is the same thing. I just do. In P90X speak, I bring it. (I wonder if I have to pay royalties for that?)